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World Beyond our lies

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  The Smart Perspective | New Series #1 Do what is right In a growing polarized world of social media where everyone’s anger is somehow your problem, and if you don’t take it seriously you become less of a human being. It is time to redefine some priorities. Peer pressure can be seen gaining popularity on Twitter. As a consumer, you are forced to read someone else’s complaints and expected to show solidarity as if it has any value to add to your life (i.e. Omg this airplane company is worse; they delayed our flight for three hours, etc.) Life is precious. Don’t take it for granted. At a young age when most of our responsibilities lie on the shoulders of our parents, we create this illusion that making wrong decisions will have no repercussions on our lives at all. It is not the correct understanding of how life works. You may feel an intense urge to listen to music while there’s a plethora of work left on your desk. I want you to do justice with your life. Pick up on your work beca...

Identifying the wrong is the first step to become the right

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 The Smart Perspective | Waqar Ahmed   Image depicting a person in search of the truth. Let's begin: Look at the picture below and keep your focus on it for a bit moment. You see two boxes filled with two distinct colors. Isn’t it? The two boxes represent two different things: one is wrong and the other is right. Consider these two boxes representing a simple scientific fact. Only one fact could be right. In some cases, one fact is the absolute reality, while the other provides half-correct information. But in this case, we are assuming that only one fact could be correct, which leads us to the conclusion that the other fact is wrong. The real question is how do you know, which fact is wrong? In the boxes, you could see clearly, that one box mentions ‘wrong’ and the other ‘right’. You can easily identify for yourself the box you would want to opt for. But real life is complex. It doesn’t come in the boxes where you have to select any one of them. No, it’s way difficult...

Is Multi-verse theory still alive?

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Waqar Ahmed | The Smart Perspective Scientists have done basic research to provide a sensible definition of the edge of the Universe. But whether the universe we have found after Big Bang is unique or there is the possibility of its other copies in this ever-increasing dark space, remains undefined.  String theory was the only hope for a few people to provide evidence that there's more to this Universe. However, where there were true believers of String theory who defended multiverse to their throats, there were also some of the strongest protests from the other side who firmly rejected the very idea of Multi-verse. But unlike the neuro-cognitive field of the brain, which for most of human history has remained mysterious, the Universe theory has been under various debates for centuries and we know a lot about it. Still, all the major theories and scientific evidences have yet to provide a proper definition of the Universal enigma. From a scientific perspective, it's a real war ...

The Irrelevance of non-technical workers in the 21st century

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  Waqar Ahmed | The Smart Perspective This blog is based on the idea of “human irrelevance due to growing impact of AI & Machine Learning” from the Book of Yuval Noah Harari's “21 Lessons for the 21 st Century.” Technology has changed everything from writing and printing to communication and business dynamics. In simple, human super-engineering has made technology so smart that almost every hardest job has now become easier and enjoyable. As technology got more and more acceptability among humans, it also brought with it the menace of inequality. Instead of supporting the narrative of Humanity’s globalized world, technology has brought before us a challenge of human division. With the growth of technical data and skills, most of the people who belonged to old skill sets have started feeling irrelevant. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning have definitely made our lives easier, but it has definitely put a huge challenge before us in terms of intelligence & competenc...

Why it's difficult to know what we don't know

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 Waqar Ahmed | The Smart Perspective Based on the Philosophical Theory of David Deutsch about the Knowledge! One of the easiest things to do in this world is to simply fake things that you know nothing about.  It would set you free from going back into the sources to confirm that what you said was right or wrong.  There is a huge difference between understanding and pretending to be knowledgeable about something.  The former is the real hard work and its drains your mental energy and the latter is just a blush. Society these days is forced into arbitrary issues that need very simple and logical solutions yet they seem to never go away.  Why is that? It is because micro-level issues are not that important to worry about in a common human perspective.  As a result, these little issues compound in years to create big problems which become a serious headache to the progress. All issues have one single root that connects them, and it also provides us the opportu...

STATE WITHOUT POOR MEN'S POLICIES IS NO STATE AT ALL

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 Waqar Ahmed | The Smart Perspective The difference between the Poor and powerful Rich becomes apparent i n a society that has a broken judicial governance system . The rich are in an advantageous position as they can easily approach with their powerful position to any person. Whereas the poor are occupied with their micro-level issues in life that they might never be able to trade their poverty for some personal interests. But the rich can trade their money to manipulate the system. The corrupt system shields the rich and punishes the poor. In an egalitarian society, the focus of policies is poor because he is an easy goat to sacrifice. The strong justice system and transparent legislation focus on facilitating the poor and most vulnerable strata of society. Poor and weak are the two most desperate communities that always need a system to support their living standards and provide social security. They depend on the state in almost every major part of their life: education, health...