"When I was young I set out to change the world.
When I grew older I perceived that this was too ambitious,
so I set out to change my state.
This too, I realized as I grew older, was too ambitious,
so I set out to change my town.
When I realized that I could not do even this, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man I know that I should have started by changing myself.
If I had started with myself, maybe then I would have succeeded
in changing my family, the town, or even the state-
and who knows, maybe the world."
(unknown)

January 24, 2010

A Late-comer to Sherlock Holmes Adventure!

..remember she was the one who introduce to a quite boring guy he used to be about Sherlock Holmes in a common conversation at an unusual occasion, and the topic was brought up indirectly.. At that time, didn't realize the awesomeness of Sherlock Holmes, although a great briefing she had given, but he was attracted by other topic or perhaps the somebody there (err..). Okay, few years had passed, the latest hot and 'talkative' movie (less hot than Avatar) recalled him. Now, completely gets into the classic Novels and Stories, as well as the related Anime, Detective Conan!

The ways of Sherlock Holmes (the apprehensible ones).. his impressive observation and deduction.. does suit the taste of a neuroscientist-to-be guy, a something to LEARN from.. Even though, no fancy complicated philosophies that most people enjoy listening and talking about, but the fancy simple reasoning to solve problems (not easy to learn though)! Anyway, philosophy do very inspiring sometimes.. The DEDUCTIVE reasoning is about seeing what is behind an event or a result we observed, for the truth, by demonstrating clear evidents. Unlike the more popular INDUCTIVE reasoning, which is prediction or creation of many possible results or stories (sometimes could be political or personal) based on what ones see or hear. Just to point out the difference (Wikipedia.com) of the complementary skills..

Hey, the He and the She get on? Something to start deduce about...