Each and every human being on this earth has a unique thought process. No two persons can have an exact same, to the minutest of the details, view on any topic. Yes, one can agree with another on some ideas but how he/she actually feels inside and expresses his/her thoughts will be different from the other person. For all practical purposes, though, these minute differences don't really get in the way of people coming together to agree with each other.
How did we end up with so many thought processes? Was it a gradual process or this is how it was from the beginning? How do we know which thought process is right and which one is wrong?
Before we try to answer all these questions, lets take a step or may be many steps back. We will first go to the very beginning and start with a hypothesis and then try to deduce the answers to all these questions.
Let's start with an assumtion that the only absolute truth is "There is no right or wrong". Now, this automatically leads to 2 corollaries - "Everyone is right" and "Everyone is wrong". These are just the projections of the same absolute but reflections of each other. They always go hand in hand and maintain the absolute equilibrium.
Now if that is how it is supposed to be, where did it go all wrong for us? Lets try to answer this.
"Right" comes along with a positive connotation and in our world, we are all about righteousness and if you would have noticed, every thought process of this world, barring few may be, lean towards being right. When we would have started, we would have started with the absolute but then straight away set our sails along the right path. Over time, (we believe) we would have learned a lot about the world and about ourselves and we would have found a lot of wrongs within the rights. On this path, nothing was supposed to be wrong but we labelled them wrong any way. This would still have been fine if we would have held on to the mirror of absolute truth keeping us aware that whatever wrong we see is nothing but a reflection of the right we believe in. But what did we do; we left it back at the very beginning itself. Inside (our minds), we are a mess but when seen from outside, the world is in equilibrium all the time. Someone really needs to show us the mirror right now. (We will need to time travel (across dimensions) for that but that is a topic of another discussion).
Now that we have talked a bit about the "right" and the "wrong", let's try to answer the question about the thought processes. How did we end up with so many unique thought processes? We will use the top-down meta-physical approach instead of the bottom-up empirical one because for the latter, its impossible to observe and understand so many thought processes even if one takes a very small sample space at a time.
We will start with a hypothetical example and then move towards realistic deductions.
Say, we live in a binary world where there are only two thought processes - 0 and 1. And assuming they are equally appealing, we can agree that half of the people believe in 0 and half of the people believe in 1. And with the aberration, the people who believe in 0 feels that the people who believe in 1 are wrong and vice versa. So our world is divided into 2 halves. To bring this hypothesis close to reality, let's assume we were talking about males and females. You may argue that not all males and females feel that way and I will not debate on that topic now. But for your satisfaction, we will divide the world in 3 parts - the third one being this new category which will include both men and women.
Now let's say we have 5 religions in this world and people of all religions have different thought process. So based on similar deductions as above, we can divide our world into "three (from above) multiplied by five (religions) equals to 15" parts. And before you ask, I will add one more category who don't think this way. So now we have "fifteen plus one equals to 16" different thought processes.
Now further dividing into say, 100 countries, we have "Sixteen multiplied by hundred plus one equals to 1601" different thought processes. If we try to put this is a mathematical equation, we can say -
T = (T'm + 1) Tn + 1
where,
n - represents all know thought processes (assuming there are in total 'n' classifications)
m - represents all known thought processes except 'n'
T - total no. of thought processes.
T'm - total no. of thought processes for all permutations & combinations till m classifications
Tn - total no. of thought processes for n
We can clearly see that when we just considered 3 different classifications (with conservative numbers) together, we ended up with 1601 different thought processes. If we go further, we have rich & poor, rural & urban, young & old, castes, races, languages and many more. And if we apply the above formula for all possible classifications, we will end up with an endless number of thought processes.
I will end this post at this point not only because its already too long but also because it raises some more questions in my mind that I need to go back and think about.
