There are some things in the world that I will never understand. How to perform brain surgery. How a cell phone works. How to build an airplane.

That probably wasn't what you were expecting right? Normally, at least I've found, that people don't understand the way other people do things and really the reasons why they do them. But I'm not sure it's always that difficult to explain. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not about to say that humans are a nice cookie recipe that you can follow line by line, I just don't think that people are anymore complicated than the field of say...engineering.

My best friend and I were talking about this late one night and he, being an engineer, obviously firmly believes that while there is a nice form and route to calculating anything physical in the world, attempting to find a 'procedure', if you will, to humans is impossible and proves rather inefficient. I begged to propose. However, due to my cold, the time of night, and other events going on in my life (which I will probably vent here as well) I couldn't fully wrap my words around my own belief enough to prove a point. So I think I'll try my hand now.

While it's to be said that there is clearly no mathematical equation to calculating the reasons behind someone's actions, I honestly do believe that people are a lot more logical than first perceived. I believe there is always a reason. No one does anything that has no explanation behind it. The tricky part is finding the reason, whether that be buried in a sequential chain of thoughts and emotions or deep in someone's subconscious. So really, as long as there is a reason behind something, it can be equated to pretty much anything else in life with a cause-effect reaction.

If you look back through the studies of psychology, sociology, anthropology, and behavioural neuroscience, people have already done a lot of dividing and conquering. We have the intellect/emotion fights, nature/nuture battles, individual/society, Freud dissecting our Id, ego, and superego, Jung disagreeing saying that there are only two parts, not three. A lot of the work is done and out there; the 'equation' to calculating how humans behave is in bit and pieces scattered across many different fields. The trick is bringing it all together in one swoop.

Now the thing that my friend and I were discussing was really the process. I by no means am daring to say that the reasons themselves are not ridiculously complex and screwed up in their own way. In most of the fields aforementioned, the reason why someone is they way they are seems to be the goal and the process is instead implied in the way that the professionals choose to dissect. However, in the end, it's a reason based process for each one.

My favourite debate is between emotion and logic. My friend is very governed by his head and only pretty recently has he started to make the transition into the realm of emotions. As for myself, I'm really not too sure. In comparison to him I seem like a ridiculously emotional person, though juxtaposed to others, I seem like a very level headed, logical person. I guess I'm somewhere in the middle, probably leaning more though to the emotional side.

I think I'm rambling and have totally lost my point. Oh well, I'll wrap up soon and try again later.

In the end what I'm saying is that there is kind of a process to figure out how people work- it just happens to be scattered across a lot of different fields. Just because no one has really given a finite definition of an equation doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. There is a reason to everything, in humans just as everything else, and while humans may be totally different form each other, logic is logic, and if there is always a reason for doing something, then there is always a logical thought progression that follows.*
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*on a side note, I'm not saying logical as 'oh this makes sense to me' but rather one thought following another in a way that can be related