Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts

Envy-Free Cake Division 2

In my previous post, I discussed the mathematics of fair division and I introduced the Selfridge & Conway's algorithm.
While we are talking about the deterministic rules working for setting up controlled decision environments, everything might seem very clear and understandable so that we all might be persuaded about the conditions of the environment and motivations of the rules which are to solve the problems across the environment.

But.

Real life is much more vaguer than the well defined solution environments and because of this, most of the solutions devised can't satisfy the stakeholders of the problem domain. For instance, if I were the party A in the Selfridge-Conway procedure, I could have still been envying to a piece other than mine by arguing that "Why am I chosen for cutting the cake first? If cannot cut the cake in 3 equal pieces, it will be a disadvantage for me! I'd like to be the first picker!" And nobody can criticise me becuse of my opinion about the procedure.

One can say that, "Okay, you have to agree on the pillars of the procedure firstly!".
Yes, it is a good starting point. And a powerful statement that ties me up about obeying the rules. However, even if I agreed the rules of the procedure, after the procedure ends, I might still be unhappy with my piece and crying about it. It is possible!

Then, would it be my psychological problem or would it be the truth that such problems are unsolvable if you are dealing with human beings and their feeling of justice and satisfaction? Is there a way for highly intellectual people to share things without using brute force? In personal interactions, human beings had come a significant way when it comes to solve the problems in a civilized way. On the other hand, in international relations brute force is being used vastly between parties.

I believe that we are standing just besides a threshold!
After a revolutionary step, which has been led by "pure" science, over this threshold, the big question marks in our minds will disappear very fast. And we all are going to take our most relieved breath! ...before finding us new and bigger question marks :))

Think of this!

Transformation Needed

Bruce Lee was one of the great persons whom I admire. The feeling in me, while I am travelling in the veins of the varying sizes of the life itself, is that I am being stuck and cannot flow forward any more for some reason. I can sense that something must be changing dramatically in time. A kind of revolution, maybe... That will be the one that looses the veins again and lets the blood free and releases the life. Yes my friends. I want this revolution. I need this.
Look around... The old fashioned everything is about to stop. The education cannot make the mass intellectuals, the industry is killing the natural environment, the medical science of centuries is not able to beat tiny miny viral life forms, the economy, hence the mathematics, of this form is becoming useless, so called information is some signal on the cable, chaos is everywhere... Formal patterns are dead. Classics are not sufficient.
And suddenly when we look back to early 1970s a man was saying "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend"
I know, we need a great revolution after which we can calculate the fuzzy parameters, solve the chaotic equations and the new form of everything will be "unknown" and unique motto of every philosophical school will be written to the books "be water my friend".
Lee was knowing this. Turing and Gödel were knowing this.
Respect.