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Duality and reality

there is a battle between emotions and rationality. i face it very frequently. and it is root cause of almost all confused decisions. i hardly miss people, but when i miss someone, my rational mind tells me that i never actually experience that person, but it is something in me which is coherent with that person's presence has given me feeling of interaction with that person. but my emotions say, every bit of that person's presence contributes to the interaction and since that person is absent, there is no possibility of interaction, even if it is totally inside me.
duality is reality. why i always feel that reality should i have an unique interpretation. no need for such! why i think that I can always fit my experience in logical framework? Godel says in his famous first theorem of incompleteness (statement made simpler) that a system can be complete or consistent. i feel a connection with interpretations of reality. understanding of reality can either be complete or consistent. if i try to put all my experiences under logic then i surely have a phenomenon which is dual in nature and if i avoid duality then there are some experiences which will not be fitted in logic. trade-off!
the decision making skill might be to choose between consistency or completeness. in most of the situations it is more towards consistency since we hardly need to consider whole canvas of reality to make decisions (since reality away from us has decreasing impact on our decision). but for systems which are supposed to be holistic, this trade-off might be crucial.

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