Feelings

 Hi

Feelings cut the deal.

At first, I thought the answer is in a stiff mind and not feeling. Physics liked that way of thinking until I developed feelings about the implications of quantum physics. Quantum physics to me is the easter egg at the end of the path of religious physics. A fail-safe key to making sure the equation will not become solved by the human mind. Otherwise, I would imagine fitting the reality in an equation would imply the end of reality. Time is what is keeping reality unpredictable and interesting to witness.

So with this underlying unpredictability at the core of our reality, the stiffness strategy becomes obsolete and something else has to take over it. Stiffness works in limited domains of full control in some levels of magnification but it is like trying to fit a polynomial equation to a few points in a certain range, the error might be very low on the desired points but the space in between them, and outside of their range are very much out of control. 

So I like more of a stochastic approach rather than total control. 

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is an example of what happens when one tries to pay a lot of attention to fixing a parameter. This principle talks about a pair of variables and how defining or measuring one of them with high accuracy results in increasing the uncertainty of the other variable in the pair. The physics world is good to define abstract principles to apply to the human scale. Optimizing just one parameter in the human scale is possible by shifting many other variables out of balance. 

So it better be a worthy variable

Or maybe it is a good idea not to focus on just one

Maybe the optimization has to be done on the grand scale of human experience. But what should be the measurable parameter of the cost function? 

The cost function sums up all the state variables with their representative weight and gives a measure of how balanced the equation is. 

 What are the state variables of human experience?

What is the weight of each one?

To understand the variables we need to focus on how we are feeling. How much time are we spending on different activities and what is the healthy balance that shows the best results over the long term in different conditions?

This requires careful attention to the feelings and schedule and a long-term study of decisions and their consequences.