Skin of an Onion
Just finished reading a classic paper by Alan Turing. One of his ideas in my words.... I have always been fascinated by the human mind. And I have always been searching. Searching for answers to questions that troubled me, not knowing there were no answers at all. Every search seemed fruitful, coz always it seemed like getting ahead. And that gave me the inspiration to dig deep, till the end of space. As the years passed by, I found many answers, and I moved ahead. But life's charming act, everytime, a new question came, a new quest was sought. And I lived the quest, not knowing if there was an end. I liked to believe there was. What they call the ultimate discovery. I understand (perhaps don't realize just as yet) that this ultimate discovery is no discovery at all, or put otherwise, a discovery of nothingness. Like Turing says, its like peeling off the skin of an onion. Everytime you peel off a layer, you have gotten closer, but there is yet another layer to remove. And in th...