Logic, Feeling, Feelogic

“What is your reason behind?” Have you ask this question, or be ask by this question? Do you always know the answer?  Logic seem like a big deal in today’s society. When we in school, the teacher ask us why. When we in work, the boss or client ask us why. Then, what you do is logically explain every step that leads you to your finally answer. But! Have you realize sometime, you get your answer before you know why, and your logic actually come after you final answer? If you are one of those people, you might interesting on what I am about to say. Of course, every one is welcome to read on. However, some people might hate me, when I say “You are a slave of logic.” Yes, there are slaves of logic in this world.  However, I am not try to anti-logic, what I am trying to say is there are more beside logic.

Logic is a like formula. you take your given, put it into the formula and find the answer. It is just like, when X=1, Y=2, answer will = 3, or Fire is hot, my finger will get hurt when it touch a hot thing, therefore when I put my finger in the fire, I will get hurt. It is pretty logical, isn’t it. This is the foundation of logic, and also here is where logic become problematic. The problem is the factor that we put into our logic ( The Formula.) What happen when you miss a factor or miss many factors? If you have ever learn math, you will know, you are likely to get the wrong answer, unless the factor you are missing are zero. Yes, Logic is one huge formula that content billions factors. Though, not all the factors will content stuff at all time. It is just like math, it is easy when it only have a few factors, but when it has too many factors, you will get lost, and end up get the wrong answer.

Logic is also a “if then therefore” statement. What makes logic goes wrong is the “then” statement. When there is one “if”, often there will be many “then” follow it. As the result of that, there will be many “therefore”. So what is the point to rationalize the problem if that happen? Though sometime, something seem to have a very small chance to happen, but it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t happen. Believe or not, Logic is one of the best way to explain something to the other, but it is not the best way to solve a problems.

Many people tell me that I need to be more logical and more rational in my life. However, there isn’t a single person tell me that I should use pure feeling to find the answer or solve a problem. I am sorry to say that, but it just happen too much time, logic have let me down. Just to get an example, I remember when I was four. I and my mother bought a lottery ticket when we press by a lottery store, and for the very first time, she let me to pick the numbers. I clearly remember I pick 1, 2, and 3, along with other three numbers. Yes, right! 1, 2, and 3, who would think that is a logical choice for a lottery. The good news is, they are the right numbers, I also get 2 number right which I don’t remember. However, the bad news is my mother force me to pick another number instance 3. So we end up winning couple hundred dollars, which we could win up to couple 10K if the 3 was picked.

Pure feeling can be really power. although it doesn’t give you much explanation,  but it often give you the right choice. Is it just lucky, or is it something more? Either way, there is ONE thing that you cannot decline. It is that Feeling come Before Logic. When you looking at a photograph, and you think it looks good. Later, you look at another photograph with the same subject appear, and you think it looks bad. This is the point where you will ask why. After a complex process of thinking, one thing you might realize, what make the difference between the two photograph is their composition. If that is the case or it could be something else. Logically, your next question will be, why is this composition looks better then the other. You see how this work? If that is backward, the story will be completely difference. If you know about photograph, there is a theory to make up a good composition, It is call the “rule of third,” which basically break the photo up into nine equal box. The four intersections in the middle is where most important stuff located, and the four line which make up the intersections are your second choice. Yes, this really help to makes up a good composition, BUT it is not always true. If you are one of those photographer who think this is the golden rule of photography, then good luck with your career. If you think all the photo which use this rule is good photo, and the other one is bad. Then, I would say, you are a slave of logic. It has no difference then those people who think if there is flower on the pictures, it is good, and no flower is bad. Known it, Even “Rule of Third” is result come from a study of many good photograph. It is not a per-make rule to define good photograph.

People often blindly believe in logic. If you need a reason to love or hate a person, then you shouldn’t be even have feeling. When you hate a person, and you try to logically figure out the reason, but at the end you ending up can’t found any reason, and you can logically not hate that person any more. You are lying to yourselves. In the other hand, can you logically like a person? What happen when you see a person that you really like, but he or she is just not the dream one you have in your mind, in fact, he or she did something that you really hate. You think you can logically not like that person? You are lying to yourselves.

Feeling is not just feeling, it is also logic, a kind of logic that runs so fast in your brain that you can’t even see the step. When you look at a apple, you know it is a apple, you don’t need to take logic then realize it is an apple. Your brain can put all the factor in the formula and find out the right answer for you, way faster then you can. Some of the factor, you wouldn’t even realize in a rational thinking. Are we who we think we are? I think we are way more then we know we are. That is also one of the problem of logic. We can only put the thing we know and realize in our logic, but the true is there are much more we can sense but never know and realize. Logic and Feeling should use and train as well as each others.

Posted by ioky March 2008

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