Its taken me some time to sit in front of my desktop and dwell into the deepest parts of my mind to discover something interesting for the Nothingness to read in my blog. My family was telling me to write about my surgery which took place and prior to the surgery that was my idea but sadly, the surgery wasn't adventurous or interesting enough to be shortlisted into the topics on which i would write a long 200-300 word blog post on. To be quiet honest i expected a lot more from my surgery. The image i had about the surgery i was going to go through and what really happened to me were like completely 2 different sides of a coin. What i had thought of was that i would go through a lot of pain the moment the effect of the anesthesia would disappear but the only pain(or feeling to be precise) was a small tingling in my throat. Also my 3 day experience in the hospital ward wasn't fun at all.(No one had ever told me that stays at the hospital ward would be cloud9 moments but i expected more interesting cases and patients around me like those patients in the TV show House but the only type of people i was around was a very old man and a very young kid.... Sounds so interesting.) The only 2 things that i hated about the surgery were that it wasted almost a week of my diwali vacations and that i had been prescribed a huge list of disgusting medicines.
After my surgery was over my school reopened and my preparations for my 2nd term Unit Tests began which was followed by a week of long exams. My papers ended last Friday and I had to again sit and wonder what to write on. Being a science student the only thing that usually pops into my head is something related to science which at a lot of times becomes irritating but sometimes also helps me discover stuff i never knew. Also, as my dad talks about philosophy all the time, I tend to mix my science mind with all the philosophy i learned through my own life experiences and the frequent malayalam articles my dad writes. This made me wander around in the realm between Science and Philosophy, a place which brought up a lot of questions in my mind. Getting more interested to find what Philosophy had to do with Science, I opened a very old book I found at my place named "The story of Philosophy" by Will Durant. Even though i got bored after reaching the 100 page mark i collected a lot from it and tried to paint my own analogy between Science and Philosophy.
"So much of our lives is meaningless, a self cancelling vacillation and futility; we strive wit the chaos about us and within; but we would believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls."
This extract from the book THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY by Will Durant defines life as a philosopher's definition but for teenagers of the 21st century this would just be a combination of complicated phrases combined to form an illogical explanation to something undefined. For a simple teenager, life would simply mean struggling to manage their scholastic and non-scholastic activities as well as in cooperation a small love-life and a large amount of meditation in the form of slumber. But the difference between the definition of life by a philosopher and a teenager isn't much. This is where the beauty of philosophy lies- it isn't something that remains a constant but is in reality a variable whose value solely depends on the perception and belief and not on reasoning and science. What a teenager experiences in his or her daily life makes them realize how the world is.
There is a large bridge between 'Science' and 'Philosophy'.
Philosophy deals with the beliefs and doesn't require reasoning while Science deals with reasoning and required proof. Philosophy questions everything - mainly life and feelings. It was philosophy that created science but it is science that destroys philosophy. Science eliminates beliefs and applies reasoning. Yet, philosophy answers to questions which science cannot, including emotions and feelings.
According to me, philosophy provides us explanations to the questions God couldn't answer during the creation of the universe. But when the time comes when science will be able to answer all questions it will mean the end of the human race,a time where there will be no option of choice and only a set pattern from birth to death; an age which will be ruled by the living dead; a phase when everyone will believe in the past while living the present trying to weave a past as the future. Every person has a reason to live and it is this that distinguishes one person from another; it is this that has let humans evolve and modernize to the place we have reached at present. But this is nothing near the peak of human excellence and it is belief and the art of questioning all occurrences that will lead us to this peak. With an era where no questions left unanswered we will start living a predefined life to reach a predefined death; life of different individuals won't be of importance as the contribution of all will be the same.
The death of Philosophy will be due to Science and it will mean the death of evolution. For a simple school-going-teenager life pretty much already seems predefined but what the youth doesn't understand is that destiny is written by us and not by the Almighty. Only we have the right to hold our quill and write down our destiny.
I don't believe in fate; what i look at is my destiny. Though they seem the same they are completely different. Fate is predefined; it tells you what WILL happen to you and not what CAN happen to you. We cant choose our fate but we choose our destiny. We define our destiny and try to reach it; Fate is independent of our decisions and beliefs while destiny solely depends on our aspirations and desires. There is only one thing which 'fate' decided in our life and that is death. Philosophy helps us look at things through different perspectives while Science focuses only on one perspective.
This is what makes the difference.
