Modeling the inherent judgements

Hello Reader, Hope you are doing well.

Let me start with asking you this question: "How many times in a day, do you make choices?" Consider choices of all kinds and then answer. Tens, a few hundreds?
What if I tell you the answer as per my theory is way beyond that.. let me say it is countless. If you don't find myself agreeable, read on.

Hey, did you realize you just made a choice? You chose to read on while you had several other alternatives. Chances are high that even if you did agree, you chose to go ahead and still read it. Get the idea? Whether we realize it or not, our subconscious mind is constantly judging things around us and making choices based on that judgement. I'm choosing to blog the inconsequential blahs going around my mind while you are choosing to read it.

We might find hard it hard to believe but we human beings are inherently judgemental. Even the most benign looking feelings/emotions have a judgement story. Let's take the example of friendship to elaborate what I'm saying. We meet thousands of people in our life time. Why is it that we become friends only with a handful. And even within those, we bond at varying degree.
That is because your mind has a very complex algorithm to judge a person. And when you meet a new person, your mind uses this algorithm with various parameters and finds out some data which it stores somewhere. Any time you meet this person again, any information you hear about them, any activity that you get to know done by them re-executes the algorithm with the current situational data and the existing (older) information stored about the person.
The re-execution modifies the information stored for that person. The information is constituted by a set of attributes that our mind is interested in. This information is what helps us determine the type of person and in turn judge the person. Notice that this algorithm is very mature since it has been present since millions of years (since the incarnation of human being). The algorithm seems very flexible and self-learning. Based on the experiences in life, it gets changed. All such updates made to this algorithm are accumulated and passed over to the next generation.

The above model of algorithm and storage of data about persons to judge them - can be easily extended to non-living objects as well. Remember that models are supposed to assist in understanding a complex system. They might not represent the true state of affairs. Same is the case here. My model might not be accurate but it does clarifies the workings of the underlying system which happens to be understanding how we judge and make choices.

As I said, We are constantly making judgements and choices based on the outcome of that judgement. I choose to stop here and give you a break from the inconsequential blah :).

Cheers
Amit