On imagination

How about an exercise in imagination?

In your daily toil, labour and endevour to create the life you so anticipate, or perhaps just the perpetual monotony of routine that you happen to find yourself at this moment in history, fine or not, there is one thing we are sure you must have forgotten, since it is quite undemanding to - that is to imagine; wildly, crazily, without constraints. forgotten to keep exploring niches and holes you otherwise would never even cast your shadow on, seeking those novel hunches you’ve had for months and months.

you are a homo sapien wondering about this planet in the late first quarter of the 21st century. What are you really trying to do? Or better, what can you objectively do? Answer or not, but shouldn’t exploring through randomness, just for the sake of it, baked into your life should be one of the most holy pursuits - even from an epistemological standpoint?

Or just for the sake of finding those things that magnify your spirit? the places that you last resort to during your darkest times? don’t we all need an outer wilds in our lives? because what life even is without them?

What about an exercise in imagining. in thinking. in being curious. in ideating. And trusting in god’s trust fund?

Think for a second that how can an author “imagine” to trace the history and meaning of consciousness in the universe across a hundred billion years, or how a person single handedly turned a (small) part of the world against the educational institutional elite, a writer who in a single paragraph can make you question the absurdity of this world, grounding you to meditate upon the immensness of it, all while touching your soul? do you get such thoughts?

or perhaps you just needed a couple friends, a space to think, not a physical but let’s say, umm.. an abstract playground, or perhaps just a certainty.

Anyways, here we are, asking you to pursue your own creative act.

To imagine is to feel the possibilities, to feel the infinite. the only true limit is imagination and physics. to think differently towards novelty is to give an invitation to that spirit which yearns for territories not yet explored, beyond all the societal conditioning one has been through.

Have you played an open-world game? you see something interesting far away, and you say “well i wonder what’s there”. then embodying the curiosity that possesses a child you go there, only to find a new world! Our world is vastly richer than any of those, so why not do that here, literally? there are interesting ideas, niches, stories, people, and aspects of this world just waiting to be stumbled upon- only if you look for them.

It’s so obvious but also so neglected that the our way of thinking, our ideas, our pattern of thought is so conditioned and guided by the environment we happen to be around. why not then try to break free of such artificial (but strong) constraints that plague us? why not care to remind ourself again and again that there are, always, more interesting “ideas” to pursue, worlds to see?

How all this manifests is yet unclear, but we have hunches (like the ones we all do) that we will follow. an idea at a time. directed towards:

1. random exposure to ideas, niches, and different aspects and corners of our world.
2. learning random (interesting) things.
3. chasing our curiosity without caring about the value gradients.
4. trying to be as crazy as we can in imagining those ideas (and bringing them to life).
5. meeting interesting human beings from all around the planet (because we can).
6. chasing novelty.
7. learn to imagine, and learn to dream harder.

Objective exploration of engineering and ideas to solve the problem of knowledge.