There are no facts; only interpretations

This is a quote by a famous person - Friedrich Nietzsche - a german philosopher.

Every word is a thought. So essentially when we speak we are communicating thoughts and ideas around. This is fundamental to any language – written or verbal. This is fundamental to how human beings communicate.

Now follow me closely.

So what is a rock?

You are probably imagining a lump of stone in your head right now. It is a rock. Someone told you its a rock; you might have learned it somewhere; saw it on tv, etc etc; irrespective of how you have come to learn – you know it is a rock you are thinking about.

All words have an origin; essentially every word is a thought. So when people first observed a rock – surely they didn't have a name for it. In fact at that stage it is similar to saying that it looks alien. Then what is it?

Well, the human beings that lived at the time never really cared to dissect a rock. Their survival goals never really demanded that they find the exact name of the object. However, they assigned a name, associated it with the pattern such objects portray, spread that idea to many generations, and thus that is how we have finally come to know that such an object is a rock.

But the fact is that pattern is never really supposed to be called a rock...and we can never really know what to absolutely call it.

Open to answer your curious questions about life...

I've just been hanging around a new Question & Answer website phenomenon on the internet - Quora. Before this I used to, well, ask many questions about biology, evolution, etc over at Biology Forums Online.

I follow many topics related to evolution: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, natural selection, animals, etc. The kind of questions out there are intriguing. Some of the questions which I am about to show you are simply because people have "just" observed them or heard of them through some source:

• Why do lemmings jump off cliffs?
• Is the biological purpose of males simply to spread the seed?
• Do bees know they will die if they string you...?

There are just so many things in life that our species does not "see". 

I was just about looking for inspiration to blog about stuff these days and then I stumbled onto the Quora Q&A website. Cool thing about this website is you can ask people to answer questions. They could be your question or anyone else's question. I do enjoy trying to answer questions about the many curious things about life. Hence I would encourage people to follow my Quora profile. If you do find a curious question, just ask me to answer. Someday if I do find something really interesting I would post out here.

I am actually thinking of taking this interest of mine to the next level. Thinking of actually going places and delivering talks. I want to address small corporate audiences, or a small group of university students and faculties, etc. I haven't established enough contacts for this kind of ambition yet. There are a lot of factors I have to consider like how comfortable I am doing this, how reactive my audience would probably turn out to be etc. Nothing is concrete as for a plan at this moment. For starts, if people are interested in listening to such talks, I will ask them to setup up an informal meeting where I'd show them a demo of what I intend to talk. Lets see this how this idea rolls...