Void identity

It was a sunny afternoon at the Delhi cant area; i was waiting for my school bus.
One of the fellow student asked me "where you there at kutub minar yesterday evening?".
"It wasn't me", i replied back. "He looked so similar to you. dude! you have a humshakl".

As a kid of 3rd grade, i was happy to believe that, the concept of identical faced people seemed a lot amazing to me. All the Bollywood movies having the fascinating humshakl concept ran through my head.

Some 15 years later, a cloudy evening in powai, Mumbai; a lot of people briskly walking towards a company guest house. Today was the reporting day for the new job, so everybody was carrying their luggage along with them. When i reached at the reception, i saw a lot of people waiting for the manager to allocate rooms to all of us. While waiting near the reception, I noticed a timing-table of lunch and dinner on notice board, while reading it, a discussion started between me and a stranger, this discussion didn't include any formal introduction, we talked about a lot of things like the place they came from, our previous companies and much more. After a bit of talking a third stranger got involved in our discussion.
After a while, the manager showed up; we all got our rooms. Me and the 1st stranger got to share the same room, then i said "hi!, this is Manish", he replied back saying "I am Manish too!"; what a coincident. It was time to rush to our rooms, we all three were going along, 3rd stranger said "Btw, i am Manish". What else could have surprise us more; with a smile, we said we both are Manish too. Then in the fit of surprise i shouted and asked "Is there anybody else named Manish here?". No there weren't any more Manishs around.

In almost every grade, i used to have atleast one more student named Manish. It's a very common Indian name.

These are mere coincidences, but sometimes, when i ponder upon these situations,a few questions pop-up in my head.

Is my name my identity?Yes.
Is my face my identity?Yes.
Is my gait my identity?Sort Of yes.

Lets put it in another way, all these are part of my identity.
But I am more than these;
can i perfectly explain the other factors? No.
That proves my identity is fuzzy.

"You are not the man, i had married 25 years ago".
"You are not the guy, i have know for last 10 years."
"You have changed, i didn't expect this from you."

I hear many such comments from a lot of people.
It's just the identity, its fuzzy and it changes too.
The Fact is nobody knows anyone completely, not even self.

By seeing all this, i can only say "Identity is fuzzy and it changes"
But, by definition Identity is distinct and a person is recognized by it.

so, isn't the concept of identity void.

Well!, i will leave the discussion open here for the reader's to build upon it.

Lost on the Web; search on Live.com

I apparently seem to be marketing Live.com;
Am I? Yes.
Am I a marketing agent? No.
Do I have a network? Yes, I do.
Well! i am a common man, and it is possible for me to spread my feelings, thoughts and ideas to a lot of people. Its all because of web (aka internet). Now a days even a school kid has a global presence.
I have got a lot of power, though i am lost. I am lost amongst a lot of people, my thoughts are lost in the sea of thoughts,ideas.

Welcome to the small world with a lot of people!
Welcome to the named anonymity!

Do we realize, what have we lost here? I have a tons of online friends, but how many have i meet? Probably a few of them.
Do i go to social gatherings often? Not much.
Or do i prefer chatting with them rather than going over and meeting? Yes, its true.

The style of the society has changed, i have lost the closeness;there are many links in the social network, but they are sparse.
Its good that we are in touch with a lot of people, but it is required to meet them.

Do I see a lot of kids playing in the grounds nearby? Yes, but only a few.
Kids now a days preffer to stay inside house and play computer games, chat, the physical self is lost.

There are much more to be seen around outside the web, you cant find them at Live.com.
So, try not to Live at .com but only find stuff at Live.com ;)

Human think tank

Not an enemy-Line, not a border, not a wall, not a line of control.

It’s not about two countries; not about neighbors. It’s about me; a single entity, divided into multi think units, grudging against others.

The tussle hides the singularity of this single functional unit. Me, my decisions are neither driven by any principle, nor do they follow any pattern. The ideas and decisions are an outcome of either one or a group of these think units. The outcome is just functions of speed and size of the think group.The description above forms the basis of the fuzzy logic, for which the human brain is known for.

All's good till now, but then the question arising out of it is how we get a consistent and correct decision out of this system. Let me talk about the correctness first.

1> The requirement of correctness is it self not true in the absolute sense. Correctness as a concept is relative and varies depending on the facts seen and seemingly true. All relies on a system of beliefs, which in turn varies from human to human. Well this differentiates human from a machine.

2> Now coming on to consistency; Consistency is achieved by training the think system. Our system attaches a weight value to each think unit. And the highly weighted think units are the ones that drive the outcome.

The consistency can also be called as selective filtering of think units. A new born carries a default genetic filter, but the functional filter is a modified copy of the default filter. The functional filter is the one developed by training the think system over the life time.Generally these filter trainings are gradual and slow but the functional filer may go under drastic change (modification / deletion) when there are shock conditions.