As it always does, this thought came to me during an innocent conversation. It was a night before my good friend Ankit was leaving for exchange and we were together to bid him good bye. Don't know how the conversation took place but soon we were discussing whether life is meaningless.
As per him, if we cannot have universal truth about a statement, then that statement is false. We cannot claim that life holds meaning for everyone. So by the law of negation, we can claim that life is meaningless. And I replied, that you cannot combine physics and emotion to justify.
However, 2 days later, I am sitting on my room, thinking about the very same thing? Why logic and emotions are claimed so mutually exclusive. I am remembering all my MBA teachings. Beware of unconscious bias while making decisions. Look into all the facts before the decisions. Do not jump to conclusion before evaluating facts. Look beyond your anchoring and framing. Well, they are sound advice no doubt. But all they are saying is that keep your emotions away while making a decision.
If emotion is so bad, what would you called to instincts? or unconsciousness by itself? I have read lots of blogs on the power of unconsciousness and how they help shape our psyche. First thoughts of the day. Words became flesh. Thinking can help you in making. If unconscious emotions can change the psyche of human being drastically, then why not take advantage of that? There are many times when I am not sure the logical connections or facts for the decisions, but my instincts guide me whether the decision is right or wrong. Somewhere in my unconscious mind some logic connections have been made, which I may or may not remember in the present consciousness. So, why should I wait for digging data if I can make something right because I trust my emotion. I am a matured person. Why I should shy away from emotional decision because I felt it rather than I know it?
The answer seems to lie with the nature of emotions itself. Emotions seems to be highly complex logic that cannot be easily explained. Also, everyone defines each emotions in their own ways. "Happy" is when your lips twitch automatically to smile or when your eyes start tearing up or just a feeling of peace that may not even reflect in your face but a calmness that you feel or just make you feel good even if hurt you somehow? If happiness can take so many forms, how many forms "danger", "right" or "wrong" will take? It is so difficult to put all those outputs into binary nature of logic "right" or "wrong". Was Ankit claims truly based on logic or was it triggered by emotion? hHas is subconscious made some logical connection that my consciousness is not able to fathom?
I am sure there is a scientist somewhere who is doing almost the similar research. I hope to get in touch with her, to understand - shall we ask schools to start asking students trust your guts? What if there is a course that let you follow your instinct and not factual data? How will the case study look like then? Just take decisions based on what your instincts are telling you right. And work the hell out to make sure you can decode your instincts properly and crown your decision a success.
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