Critical Thinkers from India

 Critical Thinkers from India

It was a world of exploration, backwards, in time. The path travelled helped me reach a phase in the past period in the Indian Sub-Continent very many thousands of years ago.

In a society, which is also a tribe as may be affectionately mentioned in sociological terms, there always emerges few minds who think far and much far ahead into future. They are the Critical Thinkers who live both in the present of their current times and in the future too through knowledge.

In a society many thousands of years ago in India the critical thinkers of that period wanted to save all intelligence and knowledge it had acquired, gained and evolved are safely saved as precious data. In addition to saving the knowledge and intelligence gained they also wanted it to have it reach the generations in future into an astronomical period of many thousands of years.

Many similar societies and tribes did the same and the methods they chose to do it were unique in their own ways.

The then societies depicted the knowledge and intelligence in the form of drawings, and some did by the way of carving scriptures in solid rock. Many geographical factors of climate change walk through these rocks and cause considerable damage to the contents over the period.

At a later stage the critical thinkers preserved the knowledge and intelligence gained by writing them in palm leaves and other available writing logs. All materialistic kits like the palm leaves, wooden tablets, rocks, rock tablets, cave walls, pottery scriptures, and metallic plates traveled very lengthy period in time passing thorough testing and adverse climatic and changing conditions, many successfully reached and many untouched still in future.

The critical thinkers in the Indian land also planned to have the knowledge and intelligence gained in their society at their period in time to reach the future generations safely. They adopted all materialistic kits to do so like the others did. They were aware that such knowledge and intelligence engraved in materialistic kits will reach the future generations only if it gets accessed by them.

Those materialistic kits which remain undetected may go unannounced to future generations. This made the critical thinkers think of some way through which the knowledge and intelligence gained by them is safely transmitted and transferred into the hands of the future generations for many a thousand years to come.

The critical thinkers from India put all the knowledge and intelligence gained by them into a capsule form and embedded it in the form of epics and puranas and many classical tales that went in through ears after ears after ears and the story like communication pattern of speaking and listening travelled safely many thousands of years and reached all the generations in-between up to this point in time intact and unaltered.

The Big data today looks like a small step when comparing with the technology of critical thinkers of many thousands of years ago.