Maybe. A wonderful word defined to state yourself in situations when you do not actually want to state yourself. What is with the human mind? What is the mind anyway? Why is there always some kind of link in the brain for everything that one comes across? Why does any arbitrary sense trigger some kind of chain reaction in the mind that leads it to some conclusion in some extremely weird manner?
“Jamie, did you bunk school today?” Shit! Momma must have seen my books lying around when I was out in the playground. Oops! She must have noticed the empty fridge. Oh no! No readymade juices from now onwards. Momma’s going to be damn upset. She will probably complain to the principal and Jane will come to know about it. I will never be able to go out with her anymore. O my God! Life is going to be one hell of a place from now on…
Maybe. Yes, the word comes up yet again. Maybe all of this – the so called thought-process is somehow linked with the way neurotransmitters carry themselves in the harsh electric environment of our bodies. Or maybe I use maybe simply because I do not know how to state myself. Or maybe because I do not know if what I know or believe, is right or not. Or maybe because I just do not want to state myself. But then mine writing an article about it would make no sense. Or maybe it would because then I would be able to show that I am in fact trying to figure a way to explain as how brains interlink information and in a way save myself from an explanation to an actual working of things considering that I have actually figured it out all.
So… yup! Let us try and figure out what these arbitrary chemical signals actually are, if they are actually that arbitrary or if there is actually some kind of interlink. But before we can do that we must get ourselves acquainted with the tricky definition of arbitrary signals. At first go we would probably take them to be a certain set of signals that are completely unrelated to each other. The tricky part comes when we question the feasibility of the existence of such a set of signals. As in, at the end of the day the set will be decided upon the basis of a choice – a supposedly random choice – made by the brain itself which again relies on chemical messengers which have a fundamental characteristic of trying to interlink various kinds of information. So in what way are we justified to call our choice as random? We have evidently landed ourselves in a paradox wherein it is seemingly impossible to have an arbitrary set of chemical signals.
There can always be counter arguments as there are for everything that seems paradoxical. (In fact a paradox which seems to be so is much more paradoxical than a paradox that is.) We might argue that the set of signals so generated have been a result of environmental influence. This new approach would then rely on randomization arrived at as a result of the random events that surround a person. But then it is extremely easy to defeat this argument on the basis that events surrounding a person are rarely random. Or a better way to put it would be that a person decides his own environment in his own way. Now this likeness or lets say, affinity towards a particular kind of environment is again a result of the frame of mind of the person. This would again be a result of the way his thoughts have moulded him over his career as human being. So it must be pretty clear that the set of random thoughts link back to the chemical messengers and the problem of interlinked thoughts stares at us right again.
Till now we can safely assume that arbitrary thoughts as such have no existence. So in the absence of random thoughts we may suggest the brain to be a pool of thoughts – a pool where one thought is connected to the other in some way or the other. But there is a fundamental problem with this particular approach. In this way we can never arrive at a concrete explanation for why only a particular set of branch-thoughts are arrived at from one starting thought by some particular person – and that this set may actually differ from person to person makes it all the more complicated.
“His soul may rest in peace…” The neighbour thinks of the extended lawn space that he will have now. The cousin thinks of the extra property that he will acquire. The wife thinks of the best ways to learn cooking. The son thinks up more pastimes other than volleyball with Dad. Each one of them has a way to react to the situation – a way entirely different from everyone else.
From this point on, I feel that writing anything about interlinked thoughts would drive us at no better a conclusion than that we have already arrived at – a conclusion that all our thoughts are interlinked in some way or the other with priorities assigned at each step. Further, all of such interlinkings have been done by the brain itself quite beyond our knowledge using a method that we call Intelligence. It is a pity that the intelligence of the human brain is unable to explain the intelligence of the human brain. Does that mean we not smart enough to explain our own smartness? Or all of this smartness jazz is but an illusion – a false picture laid out to us by the brain to fool us into understanding that we are smart?
I don’t know. I feel dumb. I feel happy. I… I just don’t feel anything…