Science, Art, Litt, Science based Art & Science Communication
Some Qs people asked me and my replies to them -19
Q: We face boredom because of lack of activity during lock down period. How can we handle this?
Krishna: Shall I tell you a secret? I never get bored! No matter what. Because I have lots and lots of work to do! And my mind will always be hyperactive!
Boredom is an emotional state, that is temporary. A bored person has unpleasant feelings, lacks interest … in completing tasks and has problems paying attention. A bored person has things they can do, they just can't (or won't) engage with activities.
Boredom can come from lack of rest and nutrition, lack of mental stimulation or too much repetition (lack of novelty). People with a high sensitivity to reward, meaning those who need constant stimulation to feel satisfied, are more at risk of being bored.A person can get bored if a task isn't stimulating enough, if the work is too hard or too easy and if activities lack meaning and challenge.
Lack of control can also contribute to boredom. Students show more boredom when an adult pick their leisure activity than when they were allowed to generate their own.
So creative minds can never get bored. More divergent thinking (finding multiple uses for items, making connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and generating multiple creative ideas) can prevent boredom.
Many people turn to electronic devices to kill boredom. Phone, TV, Computers, games, ... and the like. While it is easy to turn to electronic devices to entertain and distract when we are bored, research shows devices don't fulfil boredom. In fact, this "shallow" engagement with our devices decreases our ability to concentrate … do good tasks and find flow.
Sitting with boredom and solving it is an effective way to train ourselves to concentrate and persevere through hard or monotonous tasks. It teaches us to go to different places in our minds when we don't have external stimulation. In other words, our mind gets a workout.
So to beat boredom effectively, make your mind more creative. It will find its own way out of boredom then.
Q: Which famous social media personality would you like to meet?
Because being famous is just a perception based on conditioning of one’s mind.
Just because some people can ‘talk well’ or ‘narrate stories well’ don’t make them the best. There are several other traits too to place people above others.
Okay, even if somebody can impart the best knowledge available, I am interested only in the knowledge and not in people.
If you can compile information well, you are okay. If you can add something more to it, it is better. If you can thoroughly and critically analyse it, you are a great intellectual. Great Intellectuals are very rare to find. I never found any of them on social media.
I am a machine, I don’t get swayed by emotions.
You can’t impress a machine much and machines don’t want to meet people.
Q: Are our luck and attitude connected with the planets and stars according to astrological theory? What is your opinion? Is it true?
Krishna: I was asked to answer this Q.
Opinions don’t count when you can show genuine evidence. When you ask the Q, ‘Is it true’?, You shouldn’t ask for opinions. You should ask for genuine evidence.
Because opinions never tell the truth. They can be based on biases, fallacies, distortions and even ignorance.
When you mentioned a condition ‘according to astrological theory’, how can you expect to get the truth? You won’t! You will get what you want to hear or what others want you to hear. That’s all.
First decide either to get the ‘truth’ or to get a ‘version of astrological theory’. They are oxymoronic and don’t fit together.
Okay, now I want you to consider these facts, based on evidence and science: Why Astrology is Pseudo-science
You will get the facts, but not in the way you want.
Q: Can we connect art with science?
Proof: ART FROM SCIENCE
Science-art-literature interplay
Q: Why do some people not believe in God (or even further, go to say that he absolutely doesn't exist) but believe in things like aliens or alternate universes if there's no proof of them?
People don't know the difference between baseless beliefs and informed imagination! That despite explaining it several times, they keep asking these Qs.
If I don't make things clear here and now people might again say the two are one and the same! (1)
Okay, we know (or at least we think we know) how living beings originated on Earth. We know the factors that are responsible for the origin of life and sustaining it. We know how evolution helped in intelligent beings coming into existence. Based on this information, we can guess how life might originate and evolve on other planets in 'other solar systems' of the universe. We can also imagine how these life forms could evolve into intelligent beings that could travel across the universe or at least communicate with other intelligent life existing in the other parts of the universe. This theory of alien existence is just an imagination or a guess work based on our knowledge about life. Not a 'belief'.
Now coming to ghosts. Read here and here how these stories on ghosts take root and spread. There simply is no solid evidence to say ghosts exist like we have evidence to say intelligent beings exist in certain conditions ( we are the very proof of such beings!). That is why we call them baseless beliefs. They are imaginations alright but not based on reality unlike imagination on aliens. There is a heck of a difference between the two and one cannot compare one with the other! Comparing scientists informed imagination and educated guess work based on evidence and reality with a layman's blind beliefs is highly irrelevant way of doing things just to support your crimes against humanity!
And some people argue that a 'scientific theory' ( for example - evolution) is a 'superstition scientists believe in'!
Scientists first form a theory based on their preliminary observations. It is the best explanation based on the current evidence. Then they go out to prove it. It is not a superstition or baseless belief. It is ‘informed imagination’ or ‘educated guess work’.
Moreover, a theory is usually backed by maths, data, serious observations, and creative connections of a scientific mind. And scientists very well know they could be wrong and would be very well prepared to accept the 'falsification challenge' unlike a superstitious mind.
Can you accept a challenge about the existence of God like the people who accept falsification challenge in science?
Now do you have anything backing a belief in God? Except, imaginations, stories that don’t have any base, and anecdotal narratives?
Footnotes:
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Krishan: Shall I tell you a secret? I never get bored! No matter what. Because I have lots and lots of work to do! And my mind will always be hyperactive!
I don’t go anywhere near things I don’t relish.
Boredom is an emotional state, that is temporary. A bored person has unpleasant feelings, lacks interest … in completing tasks and has problems paying attention. A bored person has things they can do, they just can't (or won't) engage with activities.
Boredom can come from lack of rest and nutrition, lack of mental stimulation or too much repetition (lack of novelty). People with a high sensitivity to reward, meaning those who need constant stimulation to feel satisfied, are more at risk of being bored. A person can get bored if a task isn't stimulating enough, if the work is too hard or too easy and if activities lack meaning and challenge.
Lack of control can also contribute to boredom. Students show more boredom when an adult pick their leisure activity than when they were allowed to generate their own.
So creative minds can never get bored. More divergent thinking (finding multiple uses for items, making connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and generating multiple creative ideas) can prevent boredom.
Many people turn to electronic devices to kill boredom. Phone, TV, Computers, games, ... and the like. While it is easy to turn to electronic devices to entertain and distract when we are bored, research shows devices don't fulfil boredom. In fact, this "shallow" engagement with our devices decreases our ability to concentrate … do good tasks and find flow.
If you are getting bored when you are with your friends and groups, that means these groups and friends’ activities don’t suit your real mental tastes.
Sitting with boredom and solving it is an effective way to train ourselves to concentrate and persevere through hard or monotonous tasks. It teaches us to go to different places in our minds when we don't have external stimulation. In other words, our mind gets a workout.
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