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Lost In Thoughts

So we fumble back on to track of my favorite topic, mind. And its underlying substrata, the brain. Examine. Haven't  you thought this before? That brain may be the hardware, and mind is the software that runs on it. Brain, basically a giant storage device with a huge capacity. The neurons, the network cells that basically create algorithms to run itself. Continuously mutating, making itself better suited to survival. With every bit of new information, new data. The only question is the mind running only on the brain or the whole body, permeating every system, every cell. Full from the beginning, saturated with information from the DNA. Cumulated learning of the human species, then the specific race, then the specific ancestory, family, parents. Then I guess a dash of randomness for garnish. Unique snowflakes and all that. Then it changes, becomes more. Based on learnings from the surroundings. A continuous barrage of information. About survival, then pleasure and pain. Behind it

Few ambitious men

Ambition, is a word that is often demonized. If you hear some one as ambitious, the mind immediately extends it to selfish and ruthless and willing to do anything to get what they want. Do you realize you read this in a strong unflinching voice, a bit harsh? That is because in your mind too ambitious is a bad trait. Wanting more than what they should. More than what is proper. Do you realize 'proper' is but a bad average of common human behaviour. Average - is that what you should aspire for? Do you not feel diminished to be so restricted? Constrained. The box made solid by combined belief of clueless thousands. So what if someone wanted to throw off these shackles of common and accepted normalcy. The people who don't succumb to this ideology are villain-ized and called ambitious. Want has driven human endeavor , not need. We want to fly, we don't need to. We want a fast car, a cool ac. If we stuck to needs mankind would still have been sticking to survival. Not opu