8 Σεπ 2009

One day, one room...

Dr. House: They’re out there, doctors, lawyers, postal workers,some of them doing great, some of them doing lousy.Are you going to base your whole life on who you’re stuck in a room with?

Eve: I‘m gonna base this moment on who I am stuck in a room with! It’s what life is, it’s a series of rooms, and who we get stuck in those rooms with, adds up to what our lives are.


So, series of rooms... it reminded me an explanation made by one of my university instructors - Emine Ekin. It was a lecture about DFA minimization if I am not mistaken, so story is like that: "You are in a cave. Cave has many interconnected rooms. And it is dark, you don't really know how you got there. Desperate, you try to draw a map, trying to orient some how. Problem is that all rooms look the same. There is only one difference: Some rooms have food in them... Soon you get a pretty big map, though you are aware that some of rooms on the map have chance to be same room...". Decoding the metaphor will automatically put this post to my other blog, so lets stick with the idea. All I will say is that "different" rooms are final states and the initial state. Well I think analogy is pretty clear here. We have a series of room which is our life, but we can figure out only end and start. So, when map is ready we can minimize it, simplify our life, by reducing number of people in it and rooms. But all we get is still same rooms, same people,... until we get hungry and go to room with food... Ouroboros, we started with it, we end with it...