Comparison!

I'm not quite sure how scientific is what i'll say here, since it's a mere idea that came up to my mind a few minutesago. It's about how our mind "evaluates" things, people and situations. Our mind cannot measure things absolutely, it only "compares" things. For instance, when i touch my hard disc i can say whether it's warm or damn hot, but i can't say exactly what temperature it is. I can only compare it to another body, or to the ambient temperature. If someone says a cruiser is 30 m high, our mind might get that this is a big number, but if someone says that it's as tall as a 10 stores building, then this image will be better understood. I have a problem understanding the fahrenheit temperatures for example, and i only grasp it i it's converted to celsius, or if I know the water freezing and evaporation temperatures in fahrenheit. Our brains work as relativistic machines. Hence, I might question the saying "Everything is relative", and Einstein's relativelty theory, if this is inherent to the nature of things, or only because this is the way our brains comprehend the world. (I would be careful to extend this claim to the relativety theory because this needs some more reading and analysis before it could be justified-or denied)

Now I come to how we evaluate situations and human beings. I guess our brain can't help using the same way of comparing people and situations. We can't help being biased and having prejudices, at least during a first encounter. Our primary idea or evaluation, which we build by comparing previous experiences, might later on provewrong, because it's not always possible to linearly extrapolate our previous experiences to current or future ones, yet we will always resort to our "experience" as a source of information so that our brain can have something to compare to. In this respect, one can understand our human fallacies, and try, only try without any garantee, to avoid clinging to a prejudgement.

By the way, what triggered this thought to me was the fact that I met a girl these days whom i was thinking she might be a suitable wife. However, I can't help comparing her to others, and she usually loses! Sometimes I think this is not fair, however, this is indeed how our mind works. Sometimes one meets someone whom our mind can't really find someone to compare too, and he/she is benchmarked as something unique, as a standard. Could it be that "Miss Right" will hit my brain as a new "standard"? Donnu!!!!