Fear of Sanity

Sanity represents the state of mind where one is concious of one's actions. One evaluates every situation and based on the various factors prevailing one takes an action which in one's view would yield the highest payoff. This Ayn Rand person who is the ideal subject for behavioural Game Theorists behaves just like a robot, conciously evaluating his expected payoffs and adopting a strategy that maximises them Ref. Nash Theorem.
I was reading Isaac Asimov' Robot series sometime back. There robots are governed by 3 laws which I'm in no mood to write down as they are besides the point. The point being that whenever the robot is confronted with a decision there are varying potentials generated within its brain. Each laws generates its own potential and the highest potential always directs the robots actions. But ever so often there comes a situation where almost equivalent potentials are generated by conflicting aspects and there the robot's decision making capacity breaks down - the robot goes insane.Read I, Robot if u have interest in Sci Fi
Similar to the robot but obviously far more complex is the human's sane mind.
Insanity is something that we feel naturally uncomfortable with and is a condition which is actively looked down upon by society. But is it that bad????
There have been many geniuses throughout documented history and nearly all of them have had their moments of insanity, or genius. Issac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, S. Ramanujan, John Nash...etc.
In physics, in class 11 or 12 we study the concept of degrees of freedom. We do extend this concept further in Mechanical Engg, but since i'm not a mech guy my knowledge is very intuitive. what i find interesting is that as u decrease the degrees of freedom of a system, its stability increases but its flexibility or manoeuverability decreases. Taking a very simple example of a motorcycle & a car. A motorcycle has 4 degrees of freedom (forward, backwards and falling left and falling right) whereas a car has only 2 (forward & backward). Mech enggs are welcome to correct me on the number of d.o.f..
Sanity of the mind also represents the number of concepts that the mind is anchored to. The more the number of fundamentals that we have, the lesser the degree of freedoms that our minds have and the more stable and thus sane we become. Each time someone breaks the fundamental that is anchored in the mind of society, he is termed as insane or genius, depending on the proof of his conjecture. This is easily exemplified by the histories of a lot of scientific discoveries. The evolution of man from a 4 legged creature to a 2 legged one drastically increased the degrees of freedom of the human body. This also led to the availability of two limbs for grasping. Looking at the hand itself we find that the most used digit the thumb also has the maximum insanity. However, a point which has infinite degrees of freedom, has no stability. Human life needs stability to survive and perhaps thats why we stopped at being bipeds and didnt take to the skies, but at the same time it needs insanity to progress.
My point is essentially naught. I had gone off to sleep, was tossing and turning and thinking about various events in my life when all of a sudden I remembered that someone had told me that I had become too sane and too rational. I hadnt realised the full impact of those words and probably do not do so even now but in this moment of insanity I decided to get up at 5:30 am, not having slept a wink the whole night, and write this down for thinking over it later.
It also happens to be my Birthday.
How Insane !!! I'm progressing :-)