Brought-up on the fundamentals of causality, logic and structured thinking of philosophy, trained in basic science and technology hence in Engineering.
“1+1 was always 2″.
Until recently when a few contented it, and life whispered “11″ in my ears. My reaction was lukewarm and disinterested for I had my own arguments backed up with loads of factual and empirical understandings that I had read, studied, taught, embedded, ingrained, learned …and what not. Nullifying all these efforts and conclusions was never an easy task.
Nevertheless, Life whispered yet again… 1+1=11. 
Thanks to the philosophers like Buddha and Bertrand Russell … I had a space for such unheard things so i gave the life’s contention a chance with a slighted smile of an skeptic.
The structured thinking and rational behavior had led to many of the decisions which were not in sync with life. For instance, how many of well thought plans and numbers actually hold true in practice ? The predisposed tendency to look for the best answer and hence the only solution had made me miss couple of other perspectives on life.
Search for the best business solution or a girl friend for that matter. I need to do some mathematics dude, may be I get the one!
Now, for sure philosophy is an open ended subject, hence you would get a chance to analyze and then synthesis your own conclusions. However, Science or technology is structure and has more often a close end.
For instance, having argued about existence of God or after life one could still speculate of God’s presence … no one seems to be right or wrong … given you understand their context or frame of reference…so to flaunt some science jargon. On other hand, science is deterministic in nature and has one only solution, if earth rotates around sun then it does man! So, scope of synthesis is limited at least for an amateur like me, which I believe every other non-scientist is.
Hence, most of the people having no basis of philosophy however half-baked training in science tend to be deterministic and more mechanic. We are being trained in factual analysis but lack in ability to synthesis.In fact, to drive the point home we know how to break something into its constituents however are clueless of rebuilding them up with interpretations and conclusions which may cater to the problem in different ways in different contexts.
Which is when my friend, life whispers…. 1+1=11 too! wolla..!
