Data and Human Mind

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Ultimately, data can provide all the SUBSTANCE but cannot infuse the SOUL of interpretations, inferences, interconnectivities, options available, alternatives actions etc like the human mind.

 

Both pro data and anti-data brigade are wrong as they tend to take extreme positions.  Data, like money, is important for the things that it can provide.

 

Excessive dependence, importance and getting carried away by the world of data and AI  must not lead to ignore the importance of many other factors, most of which may emanate from the minds, human minds and from multiple other sources beyond the boundaries of data centric world.

 

Data is a very vital and extremely useful tool for many purposes; I repeat many purposes because it gets its strength from its contributory utility. Trends of worshiping data are fine as very often they are the results of conclusions arrived at due to the ecstasy of revelations of research into reverse engineering.

 

Tweaking anything and everything to create something new or come out with some modified versions of some existing things are both interesting and easiest way to unleash the human creative instinct and draw certain conclusions, but all these have a saturation point.

 

Even in natural evolution certain designs are adopted others discarded based on the adaptive utility of a particular organ at a particular place and period.

 

To get an idea into the whole gamut of how the MIND works, not the physical organ brain, and how many things are shaped by various factors in the evolutionary process which involves almost everything or many things around, within and beyond the ken of human intellect.

 

To get a more comprehensive picture of these issues I wish a more exhaustive list of reference works which are or may be related to this topic like:-

 

1] How the Mind works by Steven Pinker –excellent research work

 

2] The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose- with high dose of advanced mathematics and excellent explanation of concepts of physics.

 

3] The Seven Mysteries of Life – by Guy Murchie – the most exhaustive book on almost all aspects of evolutionary processes.

 

4] Human Destiny by Le Comte du Nüoy- the biochemical explanation of human destiny

 

5] Works of Richard Dawkins, Neale Donald Walsch etc

 

While a large volume of data can throw up lot of ideas it cannot interpret or suggest proper utilization of those ideas.

 

While a large volume of data can throw up lot of thoughts it cannot do the thinking beyond a certain extent and besides a specified path of predefined command.

 

While a large volume of data can throw up lot of knowledge/information inputs it cannot initiate or ensure to either enhance understanding or can even restrict frames of reference for understanding.

 

While a large volume of data can throw up lot of insights into the working patterns based on permutations it cannot provide the wisdom to choose, as that knowledge comes with churning which life undergoes chronologically in the form of experience.

 

 

Data, like media reports does not sell in anonymity or emanates from and operates in neutrality. Claiming neutrality in the presentation of either is like selling proabortion condoms.

 

Therefore, every data set, in most cases, is presented with a predetermined response.