states of mind
rants of an emotional being
Stepping in emotions
We are human beings and we are not robots. Nor perfect in everything. Or maybe anything! But we are complicated streams of actors with multiple orders of affairs. Emotions cross us through our mind and body all the time. Happiness, sadness, excitement, despair, fear, disgust, frustration and others which I do not possibly recollect right now — most of which most probably are formed in some degree of above ones.
States of mind — Base + Emotions
Emotions are a part of our state of mind. They are like the ever-changing weather. The other part is climatic. The base over which these emotions come and go. The base of the state of your mind when you are at peace. That’s the realization of the present tense, with no short emotion but the state of being. Emotionless state. When solutions appear to your problems in lightening clicks or simply the problems erode as being trivial.
This is my philosophical stack of mind. A base state where you can think clearly without being emotional. Where your predictions of time and space are accurate and precise. Your recall is higher and you are logical in your thoughts. Add the next layer is of emotions on top, that affects your judgement and response to the stimuli of this world. World of matter — living and non-living.
Scaling to real life
Realize the plethora of states of mind one can be in. At any point, you are in one or other state. And you go ahead and talk to someone. Interact. The fallacy is to assume that the other person is also in the same state of mind. Which is highly improbable, may indeterministic.
In this setting, saying something that you hope will come across as funny, may offend them. Saying something to cheer them up may backfire.
But we aren’t robots. We aren’t programmed to behave in logical and deterministic ways. We use heuristics to decide our responses. We use information from the environment to narrow down what others are feeling. Their state of mind. And, that's how we choose our words and act; interact.
Those who can do this well, are effective in making connections. Those who miss out the cues are ever lost in the exponential problem space of this NP problem.
