The Secret of Human Mind

 

It's all in my mind.

Mind, brainstorming, focusing, contemplation, etc. all are the origin of thinking. The human mind has thousands of capacities in itself. In the 21st century if you can see around, and tend to ponder, how drastic the world has changed by technology, your mouth will involuntarily say, Wao, and you will say it. All this was the evolution of human man. A lot of evidence can be seen around us, simply pick a mobile and think what is happening inside it. For all of us, it is like a black box, we don't know what is happening inside, but if you analyze what is going on there you will be astonished by the way it is working.  Travel 100 years back, say, someone, I have a device from which I can see the person far away in any other country, he will call you crazy and literally, it will happen. All the Inventions and discoveries just happened in 100 years, and much will happen in the near future. Human concerns regarding the future that it will be controlled by robots and AI. Isn’t it true? Well, it is self-evident in the form of ChatGPT and different AI, it's just the beginning. Human is depending more and more on AI these days. Isn't it giving control to robots to run our lives? Yesterday one of my students asked this innocent question: What will happen in the future and what will happen to us? I just replied might be people will become the slaves of technology and bitterly it is happening around us. We can't live without phones but without oxygen, ground reality; still humans will find a way to live in a world with less oxygen but technology slaves can't think their lives without the source of the Internet, WIFI, YouTube, Snapchat, WhatsApp chatting, Tik-Tok, Facebook, Instagram etc. It doesn't mean that people are domesticated to these things still you will find a lot of people using these platforms in a compromised way to get meaningful results. Pros and cons are paradoxical to each other.

The human mind and its cognitive development result in the evolution of society. As time passed, different physicists, biological, chemists, engineers, and masters of different fields worked together and made different products. Have you ever wondered whether 51 years ago humans would land on the Moon, this happened in the US on 21 July 1969. Millions of people around the world watched this historical event on television. Another example of how disastrous the human mind can be was the making of a Nuclear Bomb. During WW2 Nazis and Americans were in a race of crushing each other, German Warner Heisenberg and American Julius Robert Oppenheimer were in a continuous battle of making a nuclear bomb, a sudden twist and Oppenheimer achieved in making a nuclear bomb using Uranium and Plutonium-239 when combined can cause the splitting and joining (fission and fusion) of atoms to produce a lot of heat and radiation. This bomb was further used against the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August in 1945, resulting in the massacre of 210,000. Both are the apex examples of how far a human mind can go to achieve what it wants.

It might be the last week when I heard a proverb from my teacher, "It's all in mind". Whatever you see around yourself, just look around if you can. You are surrounded by mind-driven things. The desire for a comfortable life for upcoming generations has gone beyond its level and scientists' thinking developed to the next level. Albert Einstein was a boneheaded student in his childhood even though his school refused to educate him, but he showed the world that no one is dumb when it comes to proving the ability of the human mind, and the world has witnessed it in the form of Theory of Relativity and E=mc^2. You might be aware of Louis Zamperini's endeavour during WW2, if not I will fascinate you with a mind-boggling story about him. He was an American long-race athlete, started his career as a novice runner, and soon made his name in athletics then became a bombardier (one who targets the foe with bombs in the airplane) in American Air Forces. In a rescue mission above the Pacific Ocean, their plane crashed in the Ocean. It is said that soldiers are trained for adverse circumstances but the least you can survive in any ocean under blazing sun, salted water, and no food in a ship sailing on the ocean with no end as far you can see. The minimum anyone can survive in these adverse circumstances is 25 Days at least and one can lose and erase his memory as a defensive mechanism, but Louis Zamperini survived 45 days in this ocean along with his two friends. Under these circumstances one cannot die from starvation but from losing hope. One of the three loses his hope of survival and ends up dying. The remaining two were caught by the Japanese Army and brutally tortured in order they could reveal their hidden bases, so Germans could attack them, and the chance of their winning would be increased. But at last, the Allies won the war, and American captives were bailed. If one says that their ancestors lived in peace with other nations, it's a white lie. The foundation of this world stood on violence and brutality; a lot of examples are evidence of it.

In culminating point I would like to say, a human can survive even in Artic region, a boneheaded child can get exemplary marks, a human can transcend language barrier whether he is not a native speaker, a man can master the skill in no time, can adapt to many adverse circumstances, can live in bitter conditions, all he needs is firm determination. Psychiatrists tried to conquer the minds of different mental patients in America so they could obey what was told to them. Can it be a success? Is it possible to subdue the mind of any patient? We don't know the ground reality of this process and how painfully it can be done. But all we know is that the mind is the driver of the human body.