Orange Juice Story - Countable Variables

Orange Juice story - mindfulness and philosophy

We were making orange juice. March is madly sunny in tropics as the sun is directly above our head, even the cloths doesn't need drying after a wash. So, orange juice with some ice was an escape for the harsh reality of tropical weather. While me and my daughter were at it, she was keen on participating in the process of making, more than drinking it. And she wanted to try mixing sugar. Mixing "A sugar" particularly and from there we had a discussion on countable and uncountable variables. Now, it didn't stop as everything we mixed in our juice were uncountable. Some water, some orange juice and some salt, not a salt or salts. It made me realize the demarcation is not clear after all.

Making Orange Juice

Is it really uncountable?

Although salt and sugar were uncountable, when we consider it in grams or kilograms it becomes countable. Infact everything uncountable we have made them countable when we consider slandered units. Someone can say it's just artificial. You cannot count sugar like you count apples. But can we?

Let's say a gram of sugar is given to a scientist and he would count the heap with a microscope and tell how many sugar grains are there. Or he might calculate how many sugar molecules are there to the nearest micro mol. How many carbon atoms. So, sugar is both countable and uncountable it seems. Nothing seems to be uncountable naturally, only as we consensus them as uncountable in the context of the language. It's even wrong in science and physics. And now we can move to the apple.

Is it really countable?

The apple

Apple is invariably countable, right? Wrong. There are no two apples equal on the planet earth. 100% equal two apples never existed. So, when we count what we count is the platonic forms of the apple. Imaginary equal apples that are present in our minds. If you are into mathematics, you would learn this as set theory, where we compare the set of physical apples with our set of imaginary numbers. The fact is none of the real countable things have ever been equal and never will be. Even 100 cars, or balls come freshly out of the factory, although made by the same frame still are different from each other. Even identical twins are not identical.

I am not going to give you a "take home message" or anything of that sort here. Neither I am attempting to challenge or argue with anyone. But to show you that when we challenge our own believes enough, we can see they are built on nothing. There is no strong base to hold any belief you carry, it is just an artificial lattice, or a net formed by our own thoughts which holds the things together. Anyone seeking a truth in life will have to follow this and identify for themselves. Maybe they will Identify one strand in the net and follow this to realize it's just a no Knot.

Conclusions about countable and uncountable variables.

Philosophy and mindfulness don't matter to make and drink a glass of fresh orange juice. We already have our taste buds and fully functional arms. But it interests me to see how my own mind creates countable and uncountable according to the situation. It's subtle but although we do not see this same process has created the countable and uncountable "living beings", "death", "happiness" and "sadness" Hopefully this will trigger you to search for a truth in your Apple Juice or the Beer next time.