Dharm-k-shetre Kuru-k-shetre sam-veta yuyu-tsavah...
Chapter 1,Verse 1 of 'The Bhagvad Gita' translates to a question asked by the blind King to Sanjaya, "What was the outcome of the war ?" - past tense, for a future event! ( reminds of Stephen Hawkings' "Time Loops" ).
Either the king must have been really-really blind, or bhagvad gita may have been written to describe something other than a real-life battle-ground.
Strangely, so as it seems, the same question gets asked by our executive brain( read neocortex ), every time at the beginning of any decision making process. On being asked, various components of the brain report their causal states to the executive, and based on which a decision is made.
Now believe me, if you will, the decision-making-process, involving multiple independent agents is a strange beast. And when those agents have only partial information, the problem becomes too scary to be solved. No universal solution to such type of problem exists in real-time.
Every system(individual) has to approach the optimal solution, to such a problem, using some kind of heuristics.
Since, no universal solution exists, everyone has their own unique way to solve the conflicts they are going through, and its very tough, for any external entity, to gauge or even have a clue of what might be going on.
we all are the outcome of the continuous battle between various modules inside our heads ? Our state at any time is an equilibrium between multitude of utility functions. each of those functions driven by our varied emotions, desires, and expectations.
Try not to be rude to anyone, they all are fighting a war.
