Extrapolation!

We have learned about it in school,College. Whenever you don't know the Ans take the best guess i.e look at the data available and extrapolate! And in strict mathematical terms - Extrapolation is the process of constructing new data points outside a discrete set of known data points.**

Now extrapolating the hard facts/kewl insights/fascinating views*, given by Dr. V S Ramchandran, author of Phantoms in the Brain, on the workings of the brain to apply on thoughts, a world where we are lone rangers.

Now, if our hands and legs are just mere mappings in the brain then what about the opinions, beliefs, and faith et. al. Are they also just mappings? Opinions in my opinion are very personal thing, a kind of a mapping in the brain or a perspective, to relate to things/places/people. And as with mappings, they can change.

Then next obvious question is -- which opinion or which perspective should I have? In the case, of phantom limbs, patient feels pain in his amputed limb and pain is cured once his eyes sees the mirror image of his other limb superimposed on his amputed limb. Now extrapolating the same method of cure to apply on phantom thoughts,opinions,perspectives.If by superimposing the Next thought, opinion, perspective you are comfortable with what you see around you or feel relieved of the pain then you got the right perspective,opinion,thought.

So I say keep the right perspectives,opinions,thoughts ,which keeps you happy and ameliorates the pain and settles you comfortably into the matrix of human minds.

I have a opinion/thought/perspective that Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" is all about this.
Now thats what you call a Extrapolation!


** Wikipedia
*Hard facts/Kewl insights/Fascinating views --Views like "Pain" is just a opinion of the brain, our hands,legs etc. are just the mappings on the brain and mappings can change i.e extreme examples - eyes can hear, your cheeks can feel the sensations on your hand etc..