Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Altruism or Darwinism....part2

we discussed the main points of indian philosphy.. and they sound like quantum physics to people ,indian philosphy of altruism ,of considering guest as god etc.. is light years away from darwinism.It requires a saintly mind to understand what givin is,what it means to pray .. to bless someone.. to be blessed.If we are selfish can we bless someone.. or feel blessed..
can we consider the conflict of animals.. of a hawk and a dove.. if both persons in a conflict act as hawks we assume they divide the benefit...well the stronger gets more benefit.... suppose if one of them is greater.. more aggressive than the other then he receives the major share.. other case they both get the same amount..now we consider what is stable evolutionary state ..two person competing doesn't seem stable..
but it is ...
consider kin theory.. that even though we aren't directly related like people having common goals .. we do see people who are truly altruist.. but are they help their kin..it might be the bond of country.. of friendship.
Kin selection is based upon the fact the gene pool of the particular individual is increased.If a person helps his kin to procreate even without directly helping he is doing what we call self altruism.
Self altruistic behaviour increases the gene of particular kind hence showing darwinistic altruism.to be continued

MAyTrix..

what wouldbe maytrix.. well during this may of vellagiri .. and freedom.. long overdue.. i spend my time this sunday at the govt museum chandigarh ..
i saw a jain godess in a dancing pose.. the culmination of vishnu and shiva..
well i saw them in stone..but some artists do create life in stone.. feel like giving life to stone..more i saw artifacts from a different age.. a pillar of strength broken .. still decorated by carvings belonging to 10th century ..then i assimilated my thoughts ..i saw a most beauiful tree.. and i went to under its shade
sat for a while..

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Altruism or Darwinism....

We talk to heroes in unsaid words ..sometimes unsung heroes are. . cause history is written by those who are able to survive it and the martyr is either glorified or forgotten.Never a true tale spoken never a true confession made but today we talk of a different world one of altruism as its base.
We have been taught to be negative and believe that altruism is the higest virtue,contradiction it seems,we think it wrong to certain thnigs even though we haven't anaylsed them at all.We understand synchronization ,but our thoughts are random.The human mind tendency is to be selfish, charles darwin in his treatise on Evolution of species pointed that selfish chromosome will survive in the long run and the heroes of today become extinct.Though we still see altruism alive and flurishing though in selfish domain.We call it selfaltruism, do we really understand self altruism or not.

Let me consider the Indian Philosphy..
be free from personal bias ..,we are taught act without desire or greed and we become free from the corruption of action.,action free from desire..,action is action but what is free from desire its inaction ..
the non doer does not ..
the knowledge the fire of knowledge burms ambition greed desire,temptation anger sorrow gain loss..
this is the life of a person such a person life is an offering to god.
what is offering..
some people offer money some offer action..
when somebody makes his work his actions his penance then his life becomes an offering..
but the best is knowledge the offering in knowledge.. because its is knowledge which differentiates between good and bad,desireless action ..
to be continued