ADAPTATION & EVOLUTION IN SYSTEMS

Systems always undergo transformations. They evolve, as a result of continuous study, research, critical thinking and of course "WONDER". If it did not, we'd still believe that the earth is in the center of the solar system and everything else revolved around it. There are many other systems of classification that have undergone changes, but in a span of time.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder talks about a lot of things, a lot of which was trying to tell me that same thing.. about "breaking the order", "the problem of continuity", "problem of credibility" and how different people found a way to tackle those. They need not always be accepted, and they haven't in many cases as well.

In reading both of these selections, I am bombarding myself with questions.. like "Isn't it the "SYSTEM" that creates the logic, that tells us that it is necessary to think and act logically?" If so, When does a group of classification become odd? How do we know that what we know is real? What is real? Am i making sense at all?

I try to understand why language is such an important infrastructure. How did we adapt ourselves into the system of semantics? How can we know that what I am typing on this screen right now, is actually what I am really trying to say? How did something like alphabets and words come into existence and became the voice of our mind? How did we manage to adapt ourselves in a such a complex system? A system where we even try to assume what someone is thinking without that person actually saying that thing. How often have you said "I know what you're thinking" ... How hard would it be to devise a system that did not use letters or alphabets, but just symbols. Is it even possible? And then my mind gets diverted to all the programming languages, C, C++ and so on ...

It will be a challenge to let go of the way we've been "TAUGHT" to think, but we all will practice it one way or the other.

Wouldn't it have been nice if i could have said all this in 10 symbols?

"Impossible ! ???" -- says the system ! ! !