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Ideas and beliefs are abstract terms. In fact, the triumph of humans in the race of the intellectual has been attributed to our understanding of the abstract. No other animal in this world builds a society because it understands society as a concept. They merely do so to enhance their food and livelihood security. But for humans, some reasons arise out of understanding the abstract. If our knowledge is to be stripped down to bones, we might find that we are slaves to our abstraction. We revere value in paper notes, honour in metal medals and fear in stone statues.

Ideas are what have made this imaginative creature the ruler of the planet. Our success as a species rests on the coherence and usefulness of the ideas we bear. So, the concepts passed upon to us or occur to us in episodes of creative hallucination can change the face of this earth. So, it is the most remarkable creation of humans and, thus, the origin of property. This blog aims to capture some of such thoughts.

Believe, or the choice to believe is humans' most significant freedom. Since the true home of abstraction is the human mind, the choice to believe or to reject is primary freedom. Although paramount, this freedom rests on the availability of choice. When there is a single coherent idea with no alternative, the existence of choice makes no sense. Only when alternatives of equal utility exist simultaneously is there an indispensable choice to believe?

The following posts will serve these two purposes: to light upon a coherent sequence of thought and to beget an idea. And the other is to give a choice to believe. Thus with the underpinnings of human evolution, the fusion of intellect and conscience.

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