How To Control A Continuum

I’ve been thinking many times why a human body, my body in particular, is so encapsulated and acts completely like what we used to call a Black Box in software engeneering. I can only see what my eyes can see, I can only touch what my skin can touch. That’s all. We do know alot how our body is constructed inside, how those parts are interconnected between themselves but there is one major drawback: this knowledge doesn’ t help us to feel, control and change our body functions.

I am not able to change the rythm of my heart precisely, I am not able to measure the number red blood cells in my blood as well as not able to detect which cells are infected by some virus, not even talking about fact that I can’t “feel” my cells. That would listen as a trivia if not one thing: body does possess means of measurement and control for each cell, each parameter and actually controls and measures.

The answer hides partially in the field of big numbers. There are ~10 billions red blood cells for example in each liter of my blood or ~ 4 millions of cells in each square inch of my skin. If my conscious was exposed to some signals about state of each of those cells I would end up in total collapse caused by this information. Just try how “easy” for you will be to quickly count the English alphabet from the end to beginning. This is very easy task comparing to “seeing” whether each of 4 million cells is live or dead but still you will most likely stumble on it

The conclusion is that only a small part of your CPU time is dedicated to your conscious needs and operations. The remainder (I believe more than 90%) is not available to average human.

There are ways of trying to learn some simple basic things on how to expand your consious control and intrusion into your black box. These techniques are not taught at schools, they can’t be described by formulas and rules. They are continuos work on yourself, like phisycal exercises, yoga, meditation, reflection, relaxation. I deeply believe in possibility of opening the black box cover and looking inside, this just requires a lot of work, not easy but interesting and very useful.

P.S. Almost forgot about one great thought that I have just clearly embraced: when doing anything you better need to not feel yourself as just you, a thing in itself, but think about you as some object at which you can look from aside. At least try to think in this way about your body. I try to do this as much often as I can and it gives me possibility to partially see myself like others people see me or like I see others people.

No science

On my way to the office today I was thinking about the differences between science and business.

When I was a student at my M&M faculty in the university there were moments when I planned to live in a science world, to be inside all those things, lectures, books, students, unresolved problems and emerging theories. And that was wonderful, it made my brain to work and filled my life with something more then just living. There was a goal.

Now a business. I wouldn’t say it is something boring or bad… or less dynamic. I think it is much more dynamic then the science, just in other dimension.
Do we have a place for science in our business? Do we have time for all those subtle concepts like equilibrium and optimum? Those ideas exist in books and in minds but they really have no chance to take place in the business world. There are no equilibrium and no optimum. Until you want them to be.

Even though science is quite isolated from the daily world it penetrates it in each single thing you can take into your arms or catch with your eye. There is one beautiful thing all around the science: you can be sitting still, without any movement, with your eyes closed and at the same moment in your head a theory of dynamic movement and collisions can be in a construction process.

I believe that there is a way to find a key to a door which opens the balanced environment where you can enjoy both science and business, precise mechanics of your mind and natural dynamic of your actions. The key should be somewhere near me