Reasoning with Reason

The challenge was simple, it was to find the rule that the sequence follows. But it proved hard for many to get to that specific rule because of another pre-made rule that they had put together in their minds. The fact that they have made this rule and based it as foundation to make their guesses was the sole reason that they were blinded to the many other possibilities. When there is a foundation build based on a basic reason the guesses made always ensure that the foundation stays true because if the foundation is weary then to build further reason seems difficult. Figuring out and using the clues to put together basic essentials of the puzzle to build a foundation of assumption to then work upon it to solve the puzzle is a key element. The loophole is when the foundation that is build on assumptions is wrong, the theories made based on such assumptions also are wrong and play dead in the sight of the answer.

There are perhaps two ways of acquiring information inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning both clearly and explicitly described in the video. Both inductive and deductive reasoning are key essential parts of reasoning to figure out puzzles. In the puzzle such as sudoku or the paper puzzle a great deal of inductive reasoning was used in order to figure out the nitty gritties of the puzzle and using the key information in our favour way a way of solving the puzzle. However in the "crazy captain" puzzle a great deal of deductive reasoning was used in order to identify the items and to figure out a rule and to propose items that fit the rule. A great deal if deductive reasoning was used to find out the similarities between the items and the chronological order the items followed. Therefore both inductive and deductive reasoning play a vital key role in solving puzzles that are relatively hard.

When solving a puzzle the brain is assessing more than the question itself and perhaps going to the deeper bits of the question and this is generally played upon by the classic brain teasers that use the general presets and assumptions to tease the brain. It works well as given a riddle the mind is looking deep within and not assessing the answer on the surface. When solving the "crazy captain" puzzle much of the intuition went it understanding and drawing patterns for the items that we were allowed to take aboard on the ship but then again the trick was in the question and not in the items. However this is not necessary for all puzzles, our puzzle happened to be this way but then the general prefix of puzzles cause people to complicate things more that it is needed causing them to befall traps never made but set out by themselves. Simple logical use of reason can defiantly bring about a sense of constant understanding and logical thinking that can intern solve the problem, without all that hassles and the complications on the road, but it is when such simple logical reasoning is backed up with prefixes and assumptions that cause loops in the theory.

Perhaps a bit too many videos for a blog, but this TED talk talks about reason being a way of understanding a being more civilised and humane people. In the past man as seen to have some cruel tortures methods, that have brought about a great deal of human pain and suffering such as slavery but it is human reasoning that brought about a way of us realising that these practises are indeed immoral, unfair and moreover inhumane. We have come to be more civilised people and have come about to make a better world not only for us but for the coming generation and the one that follows. We have abolished the inhumanity in our system but still have long way to walk to bring about a better world. The TED talk compared human emotions with human reasoning and sought to seek out which one had a more prominent effect on the past. Clearly reason has seem to win the battle but a great deal of pathos was involved in bringing about the right ideals in out government system. 

Overall puzzles such as sudoku are really a great test of human reasoning and are essential aspects required to bring about a sense of rational reasoning. All though hard or easy they set out to test a great part of human rationality and reason which is perhaps the best part of the puzzles.

Slightly on a tangent the brain use two structures of information to understand the world around is. In the video above which seemed really interesting the idea behind the bi-logical thought processes are identified in the brain. The use of different brain structures causes slight draw backs in the way the brain perceives the surroundings and it causes slight draw back in our sense of recognition and understanding. The brain however puts the information it receives in context of the surroundings and always looks to produces a more efficient representation of the surroundings in comparison to a accurate representation which explains why the human brain is prone to the many different illusions. The brains is nonetheless a magnificent organ that brings about a sense of understanding and reason and brings about a efficient comprehension of the world around us.

Enhanced look at Language

The world is round and it bears billions of people separated by the lines imposed by man and by
waters that run between them. The billions of people around the world have made countries
their own and have separated themselves from one another and let divisions be made. The separated countries have different languages that are part of those countries. for example in India the people speak hindi, well thats the official language, there is a lot more languages that go around for each and every state of india but for the United States of America the language is english and in Spain it is spanish. So evidently given the examples you see different countries have different languages. However if countries could all speak a language there is a sense of unity despite the diversity. We has the human race all come together to speak a single global language that when aliens come on earth they know yeah thats their language. if aliens come one earth now, they go back confused as hell, trying to decipher all the languages, for all we know, they wouldn't even know its different languages. Under the umbrella of a single unified language, we the human race can come together and set aside our differences, we can appreciate one another, communicate to another and defiantly travel to other places without having to worry about speaking an entirely new language. A unified languages brings about simplicity and irons out all the wrinkles on the road. If humans spoke on language we wouldn't need the apps on the app store designed to make translations easy and faster and away with all the extra language classes and definitely no more human translators to translate anything during business conferences. In such cases diverse language although it would look good on earths resume, tends to be a barrier that obstructs convenience. We would gain an identity as a global race and sense of togetherness in how we interact with one another. However with major possible drawback is that lost sense of nationalism, the language that a country speaks is its pride and joy. That language is life to that country, it is the way they talk and communicate with one another. The implementation of a unified language would mean that countries would loose that sense of nationalism, pride and joy. It would mean countries to loose their language and earth loosing a sense of diversity. However much of a headache translation is, sometimes learning new languages seem to be an exciting feat and to some learn more languages is a content life. Therefore unified languages would indeed take tolls on certain aspects of nationalism and pride for an individual nation but would seek to bering the world as a whole, a world where people can communicate without barriers, one where they can feel and understand each other.

“The Miracle Worker” was a movie about Hellen Keller a girl who is blind and deaf and her teacher’s experience in teaching her language to come to know the world around her better. Watching Hellen Keller in the movie "The Miracle Worker" urged me to volunteer at the Kerala Blind School Society. The experience was defiantly different than that of everyday. The blind really use their other senses such as touch, sound and smell as ways of knowing whats around them. Reading brail and trying to read and understand what was said was really hard but the blind where able to read them like how we read letters and they were able to read sentences together making their reading quite fluent. They were even climbing trees based on their sense of touch and it was massively impressive how much you could actually do with touch. Another great aspect of the day was blind cricket where we would have to hit the ball with a bat based on the sound the b

all makes while rolling. Giving it a shot, the realisation came upon me that it was indeed a really hard challenge. Assessing Hellen Keller after this experience brought about the thought of the difficulty of life in her perspective. Language as a way of knowing the world around us became truly essential, as we humans have named object around us, it is essential to know them to, to understand the relation between an object and its word. Hellen found this difficult because she was deaf and blind which makes her absent to two fifth of her senses. Learning language for Hellen was an understanding that there was a whole world of things that existed around her, that there was a whole world a possibilities that engulfed her and learning language was a way that she could have possibly communicated to her parents through the use of sign language. Blind people generally use sound to understand the object as a name and it using that sound that they understand they put two an two together to make sense of things. Hellen on the other hand who was deaf and blind had to use the medium of sign language to understand that the object meant something and that it had a name, that the object stand for a thing. She had to use the medium of language to put the idea of an object together with a name to make sense of things. However what Hellen also demonstrated was that language although a primary way for us fully capable humans to communicate, was not the only way to communicate and there were other ways of conveying ideas such as sign language. Language as a way of know differs for different types of people as back in the time of cave men and women, language was probably not a way of knowing like it is today. Language is an essential way to know the world around us but perhaps in not the only way to know things around us. 

Progressional Development of Language

The topic of language as a means of communication and conveying ideas, has led to the little faces that people send to one another in order to covey not only their message but their feelings. The Japanese little faces called "emoji" that means "picture character" is in ways an expansion of human language. The small fragrant things such as the feelings and expressions at the time when you are texting or messaging are not truly expressed in words and can be the hardest to say but perhaps expressing them in the form of little faces could convey the idea or the feeling far better. Expressing words inform of emojis are an expansion of the horizon for communication through the medium of language and this expansion is resulted in positive interactions with people to understanding one another far better. With the use of these little faces, one is able to say something and express the feeling she is feeling wether it be angry, happy, sad or sahappy and the receiver can respond accordingly taking into account the feelings. The conversation becomes more lively and realistic as there is an interaction that conveys both ideas and feelings, which has indeed made these "picture characters" very useful and fun to use.

As seen in the video, the small little faces have changed from being an new page to a completed book. The whole set of emojis has brought about a change in the brains of mankind formulating a sense of recognition, understanding and is a proof of the diversity of language. The human brain is starting to recognise the little faces more easily causing us to understand them better and add it to our daily vocabulary

There is a progress in terms of education and the gaining knowledge. In relation to the context of language there has been of development in the way we sent text which has gone from just texts to emojis and now to bigger version of emojis known as stickers. Language is therefore a development and is an open discussion, which kind of explains why there are new generation messed up words that enter the dictionary every now and then like "selfie" and "twerk" which are now actually officially words on the the dictionary and "selfie" was the word of the year in the year 2013. But the progress of refining language could only result in an positive out come, as the more words we have knowledge of the more words we can use to describe something or perhaps find different ways to explain something on an english essay which is always crucial. Language therefore is indulging in a constant process of progression where it develops and enhances itself for the people of the generations to perfectly express themselves and their feelings and  therefore languages has to constantly adapt the needs of the people. Language is never seen to however indulge in a process of regression, the reason being language is a widely needed tool in order to express one self and taking away words to communicate would require us to resort to sign language which is rather backward, time consuming and require a lot of time and effort to get used to not to mention that it is highly inconvenient; but if there is ever a positive to that at least the deaf can feel at home. All jokes aside the benefit of language is gained only when it progresses and amends to the needs of the people interns of conveying ideas and expressing feelings.

Language is a universal way of conveying and expressing ideas and feelings. Although a lot of people  might have different languages, people still use a medium to convey ideas and feelings. We as human beings are social animals and the urge to convey thoughts, ideas and express our feelings tends to be a universal desire, therefore making language more universal method. Language however as discussed before is a progressively changing aspect that amends to our needs of expression. Language   doesn't drastically change over time, unless Germany won the war and we would all be speaking german the next day, but that aside language has build a strong foundation and any new word would be something that is culturally new or is a new aspect of life. Taking for example the new word that has entered the dictionary in the year 2013; the word "harlem shake" was a dance that dominated the internet and brought about a new cultural aspect to our global world. The way to express this dace was by calling it "harlem shake" and was a way of conveying the thought of the dance to another person. In such way language has developed to help convey certain ideas to other people; analogously what the development of language revels to us is that there a development in cultural and global aspects of mankind that we require new words to describe them in order to covey that thought to someone else. What development in language comments on the human race is their development, evolution and global growth. This would intern language to further develop to amend to our needs of expressing our selfs.