Tuesday, 7 April 2015

The Beauty of imperfection

In an age where robots look more like humans, the biggest question arises, how can we differentiate between a human and a robot? This results in even more terrifying questions, like "robots taking over humans", "robots having their own mind" and other ideas from clichéd science fiction movies. The first and the most obvious response to the above question would be the Turing test. But the test is proven to have loopholes and our beloved robots nowadays are smart enough to find them. There is one thing human beings can't achieve. Perfection. A machine/robot can be perfect because it has only two logic states- True and False. Humans don't have a definite logic state. It can vary anywhere between 'True' and 'False' but neither of the two.

Imperfection of human beings is a thing of beauty. It is those little imperfections that defines a person, combined with unique characters and traits, imperfections leads to a perfect combination of personality. Imperfections also exist in our universe. Many scientific theories and experiments are based on imperfections. There are laws which explain those imperfections and defects. Humans are not new to perfection. The planet they are born in, the earth is in the perfect astronomical position to support life. In scientific experiments, what we call as "human error" is due to imperfect conduction of the experiment by the human being.

There is only one thing that is perfect in this world. Nature and all its forms are perfect. The plants and animals co-exist in perfect symbiosis. The perfection of nature is the reason why we admire it often. It is like Newton's first law of motion, If a system is at rest or motion will remain at rest or motion if there is no external force acting on it. The same thing is applicable here. Nature has been existing in perfect harmony till humans came along. Humans, being the brutal external force here started messing up this inertia called perfect harmony with their own imperfections.

Humans achieving perfection is impossible, If it happens, then there will be no concept of god. Hypothetically, imagine this scenario where humans finally achieve ultimate perfection. Life will become boring and monotonous. Everyone will start doing the same stuff and there will be no variety. Basically, human civilisation will die and humans will transform into robots. It will be like the Dalek invasion(Yes,Doctor Who reference). So ideally, perfection cannot be achieved by humans.

Certain people in my life strive to achieve perfection and I totally respect them for this. It is great to have some fixed goals in life and achieving perfection as one of them is appreciable. If they strive hard, they will come close to perfection. It is like an asymptote in mathematics. They tend to become perfect but never actually achieve perfection. I am not discouraging those people, but I dedicated this part of my article to those people who strive hard to achieve perfection. I keep them in high regard and have immense respect for trying to do this. Keep continuing to do so and also inspire others to follow you in the path of perfection.

With this, I'm signing off to lead my 'imperfect' human life. Since I am a human, I am sure there will be some flaws and mistakes in my post. Please comment below with your thoughts and also point out any imperfections in my writing so that you can also prove that I am not a robot :P.



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