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• A reply on Conversation: Is there anything that a human being can never possibly do?

  Feb 6 2013: Hey thanks for pointing out the typo, I am surprised about such thoughtful response of this question in spite of my silly typo.

• A reply on Conversation: Is there anything that a human being can never possibly do?

  Feb 6 2013: When a human being says he has achieved something that was considered impossible, It should always be recalled that it was just another human being whose assumption was that it might be an impossible action which another human being proved that the assumption is fallacious.
  
  Hence no human being on this planet can ever be able to achieve things that are naturally impossible.

• A comment on Conversation: Is prayer a form of placebo or is there evidence of divine intervention in the answering of prayers?

  Jan 16 2013: We knew our heart drive our body, our brain drives our thoughts and decisions.
  
  As humans being a curious creature we wanted to know what drives these both. As we the humans have the tendency to follow the breadcrumb believing it will lead us to something new. We used our imagination and gut feelings and assumed/ identified that it is the mind that drives our heart and brain.
  
  And again comes the curious creature wanting to know what drives the mind.
  
  So we came up with GOD so that we don't have to pursue this endless journey and convinced ourselves.
  
  We from humans perspective we see things in such bottom up fashion, But on the other side GOD who actually exists knows this from the Top Down approach, which is actually the original work. Others are only depictions of this original work in many forms.
  
  God is to Human being, what a Human is to an ant.
  
  An any point an ant will never know that something called human exist. All it will know is that there are threats at times and food some time. They might have assumed the human intervention to something else which we will only know if we are intelligent enough to understand its brain or they should be our creations which they are not.
  
  In the same way humans are not capable of understanding GOD, we have no idea in what proportion our assumptions and reality are laid in.

• A comment on Conversation: Boil the oceans... Yeah... I said it.

  Oct 5 2012: Isn't that what exactly the Sun has been doing for millenniums.
  
  Heating eats more energy than it spills out, That's why we are looking for natural sources to heat stuff so that we can just enjoy what it spits.

• A comment on Conversation: Should we limit our use of cellphones, internet and TV to get back our mental peace?

  Oct 5 2012: Not sure about the mobile and internet but watching TV is a kind of passive activity it might not be healthy over a long run as ti does not involve physical activity but uses the least of your mental effort i think.
  
  But you can always work on finding something that is better to do than these things to keep you occupied. This is what i always do. Come what may you just have only 24 hours a day. If you are currently watching 4 hours of TV and are able to identify a new high quality activity and borrow time from watching TV and put it in this new activity some 2 hours, your problem gets solved. The key ere is high quality activity, should at any cost replace low quality activity.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the relationship between conscious and subconscious?

  Sep 11 2012: "two parts of an iceberg is that one is underwater and one isn't."
  
  This statement makes perfect sense, definitely one point that can highlight the difference so vividly.

• A comment on Conversation: Is There a Future for Money?

  Sep 11 2012: Money for sure has its future, but where is what everyone is breaking their heads to find out.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the relationship between conscious and subconscious?

  Aug 17 2012: So that means they are different.

• A comment on Conversation: Brain helped us understand how other organs work, Now which organ can help us understand the brain itself.

  Aug 16 2012: Comprehending is definitely something that only the brain can do for us. But to understand the inner secrets of brain can some other organ have the clue for it as they are heavily monitored and controlled by their boss.
  
  For example the eyes are the ones provide vision to our brain, so how does the image that we are seeing is perceived in the brain what chemical reaction does the brain process to identify that i am tying the letter 'n' here next on the keyboard.
  
  Hey i got another question to ask you,
  http://www.ted.com/conversations/13299/what_is_the_relationship_betwe_3.html.

• A reply on Conversation: Brain helped us understand how other organs work, Now which organ can help us understand the brain itself.

  Aug 16 2012: Hmmm.. may be that's another brain thinking about our brain. Well this has triggered a new thought in my brain. If you can understand my brain well than can some other species be used to understand human beings brain and explore it for us. I think this is where communicating with other living creatures and understanding their language becomes important.