Equilibrium - The elements ...

Who need’s an equation? Why people need to do small, abstract things, like equations? Why don’t they just tell us a story?

I’ve seen a movie made after a book, with my friends, couple of weeks ago… Very disappointing experience! I loved the book, I made my own images out of it, I dreamt on it’s phrases, I created my own world populated with people, with the intrigues and with the "not said" things… actually I made my own movie … The movie on the screen didn’t cover all I dreamt of – couldn’t; I’m different from the scenarist or the producer or the main character movie star.

Even with all the common knowledge base, we, humans, continue to think and to act different. And it’s not only the problem of the society blanket (rules, god, a.s.o.). Usually, we call that "free will". So I exercised my free will and stayed with my dreamt movie instead of the screen one. But is it all? No, of course, was simpler for me not to mingle with other ideas even if they were possible interpretations.

Yes is possible, but why make everything more complicated? Well that’s the point. Keep it simple, let the people dream on it, make their own movie, let them keep their point of view, exercise their free will, keep their direction. Just make an equation. A simple one, an onest one.

For everything that we know of, duality is a standard. There’s no white without black, no good without evil, no matter without antimatter … But why? Why must we acknowledge that there is duality in everything? People share something which is usually called common sense – using it to denominate something that look’s or feel’s right. Just right, not necessarily based on something.

Things must be in equilibrium, so it must be black and white, good and evil, wrong and right. In fact all of our moral concepts are somewhat like the double helix of DNA…

Trying to keep it simple, let’s find out from what a car is made and what is it doing. To have a car you need some matter like engine, wheels, bodywork and you need an information layout like where the wheels will be, where the engine is put, how the bodywork will be… so a car is made from matter organized by a layout of information design. But a car, to fulfill it’s purpose needs a driver… the driver needs the will to drive the car, and the means to do it … some gas for the engine, roads to move around.

A human is a car with a driver. It has some matter organized with the information layout in the DNA. It has a driver which is it’s mind and is using it to change all the time the "car" in which is sitting. By eating, running, learning, doing good things for it’s bodywork or bad things … it’s changing it nevertheless as well it’s changing it’s mind… how much? Until an equilibrium is made between what the body needs and what the mind wants.

If I would want to state that: "1 = 1" is (in) equilibrium I would be deadly wrong. Because "1" is dead! If you think about entropy, you can state that. If something is not changing, than is surely dead.

Shall I say "x = y" not really, because equilibrium doesn’t mean that something is equal with something else. Few things can be equal and they are usually to simple to be considered on this level. Can a measure (length, weight, etc.) explain the complex relations between the body and the mind of a human?

So let’s try something else:

Where we can put X being the bodywork and Y the mind. Eq will replace the static equal sign.

Let’s do also some background work: 1 = 1 doesn’t mean that "=" is forcing something upon "1"; it’s just stating a fact. "1" is dead, remember? Eq is NOT stating anything, it FORCEFULLY applies the NEED OF EQUILIBRIUM. The X and the Y are the ones who must change to acquire and to keep the state of eq. But as you all know, if you drop a ball from your hand on the ground it will bump a few times before it stops. (Let’s say it will be in eq … for the sake of what will come…) so, if eq is solid, just how much X and Y will "bump" until reach eq?

This is the nasty part. If you were to build a castle out of play cards you wouldn’t want to build it forever wont you? So I guess that this ever-changing eq stuff gets on your nerves. On mine to. I tried to figured out why… and then I saw myself arranging my papers on the desk. It wasn’t the order of the papers that was interesting for me but the fact that I knew where everything was – the control over those papers was what I needed. Probably that’s why a "bumping" cards castle doesn’t accommodate…

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21-10-1999