Human Electromagnetics

I couldn't find something to blog about, so I'm posting an excerpt from my personal diary. Well it doesn't really matter whether I post or not; but (my) research has shown that the number to visitors to this site is proportionate to the my rate of posting. Not that these figures hold any importance, but you see, my dear friend Aman is just 200 behind me in visitors, and I kind of like to stay ahead.

So here you go, all in good faith.

"It is amazing how our psychological and physiological processes model on physical phenomena. How a piece of metal is attracted to a magnetic entity, but perhaps due to its own weight (of what?) it cannot reach the magnet however hard it may try. It is caught in a state of partial glee. Suppose the magnetic entity is an electromagnet. The current will pass, and the magnetism will move to newer regions, leaving the metal to contemplate what could have been. Strange as it is, non metallic elements near the metal cannot understand the attraction of the magnet for the metallic element.

There is a point, though, where this analogy ends. Where the assumptions lose mettle, where the results don’t match. And that is understandable, something as simple as the physical world can hardly match the depth and breadth of the human brain, the primary domain of psychological sciences. The human piece of metal may lose its weight, because that weight is a creation of the same creative processes that have produced the magnetism that energized that piece. But how well does the piece of metal know this?"

I know that this is pretty strange stuff to read if read without the context. But that is why it is a diary entry, dumbo.