Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Mathematics of life...

"Life is a stochastic process (not ergodic though) with mean = happiness and variance = experience.. Enjoy mean of the variance"

Now let me explain this to who dont know mathematics much.

A Stochastic process is a process which generates "random events" along "time".
We cannot determine the exactly which event would occur at what time. All we can determine is the probabilities of events and characteristics of the stochastic process such as mean and variance(basically averages).
Now a stochastic process can start at any point of time. Every such realization of stochastic process is called sample path. By non ergodic it means that the stochastic process has different averages along different sample paths...

Huhh too much of mathematics isn't it??

Now i leave it as exercise to commenters to explain the relevance interms of life...


Here is what my analogy means:

Life is a collection of random events occurring in time. One cannot always say something will definitely happen. There is always an uncertainty associated with it. What we get from life is finally happiness n experience. Happiness can be called mean of all events occurring in life because because happiness is what we urge for in life(as upanishats say). Now experience is the variance of life on top of happiness. Like sometimes one will be down n sometimes up which are variances on top of happiness.


Summary is accept life as it comes. Enjoy the mean of the variance....