quite mysteriously....

hey ppl!!... am really sorry, not to have written anything here for a very long time... but i have been extremely busy. Here i am again ... back with a bang (I hope ;-)) .

I am here to type down a thought that i suddenly got today evening when i was walkin back home from my college bus stop. Its a really funny and kinda vague thought u knw, i really wonder at myself for this :-)..

Here goes a series of incidents that led to it i guess...

Incident Number 1 :
My class guys and I were playing cricket last week in Somasundaram ground... We were bowling first, I had already finished my quota of the intital 3 overs that i was given and was asked to field to on the off side jus a little bit close to the batsmen, short mid wicket i guess (dunno exactly .. close enuf to the batsmen anyway). Rakesh was bowling and the ball was hit a bit square hard enuf(could jus see a flash of the ball from my pos) it went a bit left to me I missed it. Next over Senthil Raj was bowling again the ball was driven quite hard to my side this time i could get my hands down to the left but still could not field it.. It quite kept happening a few more times after that.. Then after a few overs I still retained my position.. While prasad was bowling the ball was hit quite hard to my right and this time I was not able to see the ball.. but quite mysteriously the hand went in the right direction and stopped it


Incident Number 2
Yesterday we were playing Counter Strike at a gaming center near our college , I played for the first time after almost 4.5 years.. and I was the worst, well all that my enemies need is just a fraction or two to blow my head off, and i was extremely generous at it, I gave them a lifetime.. We start of the game i buy my ammunition and come out of the hideout ,I see many people around I carefully move my mouse to make the cross hair come near the head of a person in front and i take a shot (oh my gosh!!.. its my team mate,He calls me in all bad words) ...
Then after a few rounds the same things happens i come out find my enemy i know he is gonna shoot anytime, i move my mouse in excitment and shoot ........ well!!! am dead meat( I had been shooting somewhere else)

Well the same thing happens for a very long time.. game after game am being mauled by merciless terrorists.
Today we played again .. this time in a totally different arena, am CT as usual.. i take my fav gun and move forward.. I go to the right and watch, I find two enemies around i take a plunge and start shooting .. DEAD AGAIN... Next time i move the same way but on the other side.. my eyes have started working better now.. I found a terrorist around i jus move forward and can here footfalls to my right I move left a bit and I suddenly find him there aiming his gun at me, I turn my mouse around and take two shots in half fear and half excitement , BANG BANG.... WOW hez DEAD... and he was a great player of the game as well... Well my excitement was at its peak.


Well there are many such incidents that i can recall once i start thinking about them, its all so intriguing... It jus shows that more than jus learning that the Human Brain does it does a lot of mathematical calculations.. It knows so many things from what we percieve..

Even when the eye did not see something that was critical , it calculated form all its previous frame some things that are being used to stimulate a reaction . Well it does seem to make the right calculations.. Is this how reflexes work.. from calculations made in the past?????

Well i sit wondering this , I think how is the Brain doing this , well when i say that I am sitting and thinking actually the Brain is thinking on "How the brain is working".. Well this is very mysterious and exciting to me.. The brain is actually thinking of how it is working!!!... and the sad part is it is not able to find it out.

Analyzing it a bit.. All machines do things that they are being asked to without knowing it.. are our brains being instructed to do certain things without knowing it.. is it an extremely complex MACHINE???...

Even if these two parts one that works and learns and the one with which we think and wonder for ourselves (one that does all the scientific investigation) are on totally different areas of the brain, wouldn they communicate with each other .. like "hey here listen this is how i work"???

Well i guess we people have to keep wondering about such highly intruiging mysteries of the world..

mysteriously yours,
Shiv