A question of being

Perceptions change from person to person. Little we realize that there are perceptions which we would not have imagined at all, just like the first comment I got for my previous blog from my uncle. I was just dumbstruck by a philosophical perception of something which I had written in a lighter vein. Upon his wish, I am writing this outline, even though I am sure I won’t be able to do much justice to the subject. It’s a part of the learning curve, though.

Philosophy has always been a subject filled with thoughts that are not easily perceptible to the layman. The terminologies used, however obvious they may seem to be literally, have different, sometimes even difficult, interpretations, which our common dictionaries fail to bring forth. One of those terminologies is “being”. I am not dealing with it too much philosophically since I have not been able to appreciate it beyond a limit. Yet, I believe that the idea presented will bring forth a new perception to our existing knowledge.

All natural systems consist of many states. It is the property of the systems to always try to reach their equilibrium, by way of swinging back and forth between all the possible states. While they tend to reach the equilibrium, they never do so in real. A small perturbation is enough to offset the equilibrium that they seem to be in. It is in this equilibrium state that the system is void of any vibration, or any activity. This might also be called as the “ground state”. A system always has its energy preserved intact in this “ground state”. Philosophically speaking, the word “Being” exemplifies this state.

The way the electrons try to reach their ground state after being energized, the pluck of the string in a musical instrument giving rise to vibration, and the string slowly coming back to its original state as the vibration dampens, all represent the same.