Thursday, 26 January 2017

Complexity of our brain or limitation of the language??




Humans sometimes gets stuck with emotions which become inexpressible to his fellow human being. Maybe there are many reasons to it. It is said that humans have nearly 100 billion neurons in our brain that is roughly equal to the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy . That’s a huge number which numbs our imaginations to quantify it in terms of number of zeroes after the 1 in 100 billion. That maybe one of the reasons why humans could not express the emotions. Emotions are electrical signals flowing through this neurons  and each neuron is connected to nearly 40,000 other neurons . Looking the number of permutation and combination that can be made with this, its many , infinitely many .

Maybe it is because of  how the wheel of evolution turned.The difference in which the language came into existence, homo sapiens came into existence nearly 200,000 years ago .And when compared to the origin of communication there is a gap , that can also be one of other reason .

But there are also other deliberate reasons; our fellow human might try not to understand each other. Like the gap between arises when one fight with other human, they deliberately try not to understand the other rather make him/her to understand us, because deep down we want to be heard than listen. But there is a key that can bridge this gap of communication or expression of emotion, it is coined as compassion. Compassion is like borrowing our fellow being’s shoes so that we can walk with to understand or have glimpse of how him/her perceive their world. There are also things cannot be translated from one language to other, like the word wabi-sabi . It is a Japanese word meaning ‘the beauty in imperfections ‘but there is no perfect translation in English language.  Maybe in English there is no beauty in imperfection so to express such an emotion we have to borrow word from Japanese. Like that its evident there are many emotions that is missing in one language but found in other. Language might have like that restricted our emotions, but it is not a barrier to understand each other. There is a neuron called Mirror neuron which helps us to understand the emotions of the fellow human beings.
If all of us could understand each other with absolute purity of emotions that comes straight from the human heart , the world would have been beautiful. There won’t be many wars even. But the complexity of human brain such that many things are deliberately ignored , as big as between  two nations to two people like couples , which all can be understand with compassion .  
 

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