tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175360082024-02-23T18:02:09.072-08:00CARRY ON EARTHWe live in a finite world(.)sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-9262202815207791682023-09-27T00:50:00.006-07:002023-09-27T00:50:31.216-07:00The Material World Is An Imagination Of A Conscious Mind<p> The Material World Is An Imagination Of A Conscious Mind.</p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-31249993128433049862023-08-06T09:13:00.002-07:002023-08-06T09:13:28.694-07:00The Endless Forms Most Beautiful RIP!<p style="text-align: justify;">Cloud gathered in the sky and it started to rain. With descent of water, the earth came alive. A giant canvas made up of innumerous pixels in form of single cells was laid. The screen blipped in a disorderly manner. It was meant to be the order and for a very long time it remained. Then one day suddenly, of all the probabilities, the most unlikely clicked. The symbiosis occurred and the Endless Forms Most Beautiful rolled over. Lo and behold! The landscape started changing. Slowly at the beginning then it gathered momentum. It was like a child painting on drawing sheet with crayons. The most unlikely probabilities in mutations and reproduction became a common occurrence. Flora and fauna flourished under the sun. And all this was delicately balanced in a food chain. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">When it could have been a happy ending like, “they lived happily thereafter!” humans arrived on the scene as a result of a weird mutation in monkeys (one of those one in zillion probabilities). This was the start of monkey business on earth. This walking on twos marvel was a master piece of the chanced (or accidental) creation. Endowed with heavier brain than apes, it still carried over the traits of Apes. But soon the humans, highly driven by self-interest and greed for power, realized the advantage of bigger groups, probably by observing ants. Ants could muster such large groups because of queen bee’s ability to fool the rest through pheromones. Humans were not born with a gland to secrete similar substance to subjugate others. So, they created God and religion to bind a large number of them in a society built on fear and devotion of the invisible. They defined virtues and vices for the masses and the rewards and punishments associated with them. The formula worked. The congregation inflated multifold.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, the wise ones knew the reality and fakery of the G-seal they had just created to bind and build the society. They created an order, aka hierarchy in the society keeping themselves at the top of it. Since their intentions were mala fide, their actions remained contrary to what they preached to the common men in order to grab or retain power. To befool others, they fielded a pawn called the king. They conducted their reign of terror through him. They justified the immoral and ghastly acts of the king by assigning them a cause in the name of God and sanctioned his violent acts against the innocent “sinners.” </p><p style="text-align: justify;">God, religion, and morality have been used as the choicest BDMS tools by those in power. Genital hooks, nipple clamps, bondage cuffs, whips etc. remain choices reserved for the lesser humans. Their wicked ways have been wreaking havoc on weak, poor, women, children, and animals with impunity. The violence is unprecedented. Clouds of war are hanging low and are darker than ever before. The beautiful landscape on earth is changing for worse. Species after species of life are vanishing. The diversity is under attack. The Endless Forms Most Beautiful will soon RIP!!</p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-2829752687827921782023-06-28T10:49:00.003-07:002023-06-28T10:54:40.719-07:00Tale Of The Two Tails<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Man was at loss of tail in the evolution process and human intelligence may be attributed to this loss. The tail was introduced in living toys as rudder like balancing, stabilizing and navigating organ. A lot of grey matter was required to be allotted for the functioning of this down to ass organ. With the burden of tail on head (read brain), the bearers were at loss of thinking. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">God wanted a god fearing (read intelligent) toy so he said to hell with the tail. He called a head. O boy, the apes fell from the trees on the ground like ripe fruits leaving their withered tail stuck to the branches. Yes, we are apes in a tailless avatar.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Most of the grey matter which was once controlling the tail was freed and human hard disk had more space available to store information and process it. All the animals have enough brain bytes to perceive the sensory world around them and process and store the information for their survival. In humans this extra 2AB led to foster imaginary fears. And pursuit to deal with these fears constructed the entire human society. These fears are like imaginary tail in us. The direction of our lives and society is set by how we negotiate and navigate through using them.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The going was good until recently before the IT revolution hit us. Our five senses still held weight and ground. But now with technology deceiving and manipulating our sensory data we are like jumping jacks to digital information toying with and fooling us, which has resulted in our artificial (once imaginary) tail to grow out of proportions. We are hopping on artificial coconut trees and one day a tailless bot will fall from the coconut tree leaving the artificial human tail to shrivel upstairs. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-88432760793254222252023-01-12T00:17:00.000-08:002023-01-12T00:17:29.229-08:00Life - A Sad Ending<p style="text-align: justify;">Sitting on the edge of sidewall of the lake, I was watching the placid surface of water. There was absolute serenity.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The silence was ringing like a deafening noise in my wicked mind. I picked up a stone and hurled it in the air. It dropped on the uninterrupted sheet of water and broke it with a splash.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thousands of droplets revolted and escaped the strict discipline of the divine unanimity and serenity in a big bang. Competing with each other, each droplet trying to run faster n farther away from the lifeless monotony, went up in the air in ecstasy. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The gravity of the matter was seriously violated. Deeply disturbed, it sprung to action and started capturing each of the fugitives back. It was only a matter of time, the top shot surrendered to its lackluster destiny. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But before failing, the mutiny sent the ripples of fear through the serenity, which I saw fading away with time. And a moment later, I was staring blankly at nothingness. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Serenity reigned again refilling me with uneasy restlessness.</p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-69429375369238502892023-01-11T04:29:00.004-08:002023-01-11T04:37:17.140-08:00Zero Tolerance Policy<p style="text-align: justify;">Endowed with not so great five senses, man did well to arrive at jet age. And with enhanced connectivity of minds across the borders, the technology also got wings. Development of various electronic devices supplemented our sluggish senses and helped us to see, hear, smell, taste or feel much beyond our capabilities, and above all gave us the ability to process this enormous data, thus gathered, thru electronic logic gates with the speed of electrons. We were at the door steps of the information age!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Armed with this electric computing power, we transmitted the huge chunks of data through optical network at the blink of an eye. Lo behold! the 5G!! Within no time we become habitual to fast, accurate and prompt responses. The information, which was so hard to access, is now available at the click of mouse. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">To err was human and patience was considered to be a great quality in a good human being. But the technology asks us to be very demanding. Its there to pamper our tantrums and reward us for being mean and intolerant. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The tech has turned every one of us into an Aladdin. The cell phone, being in Jinni avatar, is our slave, which has enslaved its master. Thy click is my command gadget has turned Aladdin of today into an uncompromising and intolerant brat. We have developed behavioral disorders like ADHD, impatience and intolerance which is very much evident in our actions on social media or otherwise.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The trend is here to stay and the rot is there to grow. No rocket science needed to guess the future of humanity. God bless the Bots! :-) </p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-74459387228887024242022-10-21T03:02:00.003-07:002022-10-21T03:02:45.330-07:00Fact of the Matter<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">1000 fall from a 50m high cliff. All perish
but one. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">The logical fact derived out of the above
observation is, anyone will die upon falling from the cliff. The sole exception
to the fact constitutes the faith in God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Faith, which blesses one in million, is
treated as param satya (the ultimate truth). Rest all is rubbished as maya (illusion).
</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🙏</span><span lang="EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">In our irrational world, there is no
absolute or perfect entity. The mathematics is closest to it but yet too far.
The calculus of infinitesimals, limited by infinity, gives you very accurate approximations,
which is good enough for scientific working of various machines and human
generated systems with in the tolerance range required. e.g. nobody cooks a
recipe to exact measurements, yet most of the time we leave dining tables
licking fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
the little bias, or the impurity of a semiconductor, which sets the ball
rolling in this universe. But why do we need to pray and revere God for this
little foul play? There are zillions or infinite number of other creatures who
have been carrying on without offering or sparing a single penny or thought for
the invisible guy. During my last sixty years, I have seen no use of him except
for the political one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">Our faiths are toxic and we need to learn
to enjoy the randomness and uncertainty in life. We get one life to live in
present. Past is past, future is bonus. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😊</span></p><p></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-75509204042120614522022-10-21T01:20:00.001-07:002022-10-21T01:20:11.950-07:00Knotty at Sixty<p style="text-align: justify;">At 60, the nature's eraser is working on me faster than ever before. Fading and disintegrating body contours, dimming and dulling senses and a slowing processor; the changes are for real before the complete metamorphosis of the body into ashes n dust.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">With near future so ashy and khaki, no wonder we scramble to hold on to past. We cling on to the faiths of distant past.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN"> </span>We think strapping up to distant past would catapult us far in future. And by stroke of luck, we may even overshoot Time and become immortal (achieve Nirvana). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">The tenacity to defy the nature's laws and the ultimate truth, the death, can stretch us to any length backwards. But the irony is, as we stretch backwards, we become rigid and more rigid. Thereby not only losing any chance of gracefully bracing what future holds for us in store, we become a stumbling block of the past. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😀😀</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN">So guys, have no strings on you and be worthy of a graceful exit. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🙏</span></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-32314129933118600862022-08-25T23:53:00.001-07:002022-08-25T23:53:35.418-07:00Redefining Consciousness<p style="text-align: justify;">Consciousness is, questioning the sensory information and its obvious interpretation and subsequent response generated by the brain. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Consciousness manifests when one walks out of survival mode and merges and pulsates with the whole creation as one.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In quantum words, consciousness is when particle loses its identity and behaves as a wave.</p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-58509171481231546622022-08-15T02:41:00.004-07:002022-08-15T04:15:35.658-07:00INDEPENDENCE DAY 75 - INDIA<p style="text-align: justify;">Years of slavery turned out to be a boon for India. People of extreme diversity from North to South and East to West of the peninsula, languishing under the extreme bondage and leading a subservient existence, united in their fight against the British rule. And when these people got independence, they chose to live together under a secular federal republic of India, barring unfortunate partition of Pakistan as an Islamic state. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">If you are looking for people, a whole range of variety viz. religions, languages, ethnicities, colour n races, customs, social structure etc is available in India. To keep these people of varied types and interests bound by a single constitution for 75 years is by no means a small feat. All credit goes to the early leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, JLN, Sardar Patel etc who laid the foundation of the secular and democratic republic of India. And specially, we are indebted to Baba Saheb Ambedkar for knitting the most diversity friendly constitution for the people of India. Last but not the least, kudos to the people of India for sticking together despite all their differences. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">To appreciate this great day, we must understand what freedom is. For an individual, freedom means to have greater options, choices and opportunities in day to day life. How this freedom is affected by the degree of diversity in a human society could be illustrated by the following examples. On a canvas, a painting with specific designs and patterns restricts the freedom of the brush. In a rose garden a merrigold is like an alien. While in the wild all flowers irrespective of their colours, sizes or shapes are a welcome sight. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The fact Individual freedom is a direct function of human diversity can be explained by the laws of thermodynamics. As per the second law, increasing entropy (disorder) gives rise to greater molecular/atomic freedom and leads the system to equilibrium or greater stability. On the time arrow the entropy is bound to increase progressively. Now, in manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics if we extend the paradigm and replace entropy with diversity and atoms/molecules with people, we may deduce "more diverse human societies (or nations) which offer greater freedom of choices to people are more stable and peaceful." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, life on earth is governed by irrationality. With recent call for Hindu rashtra, we have chosen to walk backward on the arrow of time which will destabilise the nation and lead to its disintegration and decay. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Wish the sensibility prevails, and India as
showcase of the human diversity.</span></p><p></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-31643447637219951102022-07-26T02:03:00.006-07:002022-07-26T23:53:14.896-07:00Covid19 – Fiction and Facts<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">HNY 2020 started with panic. Social media was abuzz with macabre videos of people gasping for breath and dropping dead like fish on the roads of Wuhan, China. Soon the news was confirmed by the respectable and responsible media around the world. Arrival of the Novel Corona Virus, SARS CoV-2, was announced. The world trembled with the sense of déjà vu of Spanish flu of 1919. Initially slow but later an over-reaction sent the world reeling into strict quarantine followed by a total lock down and mass hysteria. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Living in the age of information diarrhea </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">(often lies)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> has its own woes. Billions of people connected on various social media platforms got spooked by the news. Heads of states sprang into action bringing down all airlines and closing their doors and sealing their borders </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">for the foreign travels</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"> in an animated move. Some countries went on to impose total lock down instantaneously causing unprecedented inconvenience and harassment to local public and loss of employment and businesses. Media was adding fuel to the fire by its 24X7 (mis)reporting every silly aspect of the pandemic. Social media was going berserk with quackery. Most of the deaths can be attributed to the remedies prescribed on whatsapp and facebook. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">People scrambled for Oxygen cylinders, remdesivir, Cortisones, antibiotics, antivirals & immunity boosters, Oximeters, steamers or whatever treatment was prescribed by the whatsapp institute of medical sciences. Hospitals were flooded. So were the graveyards. The frenzy and fear were unprecedented. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">After two and half year of the onset of the Covid19 pandemic, when there is not even a murmur of the virus on the social media and business is as usual around the world, I lookback in the history to read about the previous episodes of the pandemics. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Eversince the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1918, medical biologists have been seriously working on ways to control any pandemic from happening. But despite their best efforts the impish viruses have struck at regular intervals with impunity and crossed borders viz, </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Asiatic Flu (H2N2) in 1957, </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Hongkong Flu (H3N2) in 1968, </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">SARS COV1 in 2003, </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Swine Flu (H1N1) in 2009 </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">MERS-CoV2 in 2012.</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">But in the past no one panicked. People died in plenty but there was no commotion, no lock downs or loss of jobs. Business went on as usual despite the heightened mortality. In all the cases the virus shook hands with humanity after one or two years of hostility without any invasive intervention.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">I wondered if the overload of information and technology has helped us in our fight against the Covid19 pandemic this time. To find an answer I dived into the Google sea(rch). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">I am not a biologist but I do have elementary knowledge of bio sciences. And what I found was as follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Every animal species hosts unique viruses that have specifically adapted to infect it. Over time, some of these have jumped to humans – these are known as ‘zoonotic’ viruses. When viruses jump to a new host, the process is called zoonosis. Because every virus has evolved to target a particular species, it’s rare for a virus to be able to jump to another species. Whenever this does happen, it’s by chance, and it has devastatingly morbid consequences. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">In comparison, malwares (computer Viruses) which are designed for Windows OS won’t work on Linux OS or a Windows virus won't harm devices running on Android or Mackintosh systems. Sounds logical as they are designed to screw the OS DNA.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Out of all the viruses corona & Avion Influenza viruses are highly adaptable due to their rapid mutations. This is probably due to this property, Zoonosis is observed in these viruses. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Avian influenza (HxNy) viruses are classified by a combination of two groups of proteins: hemagglutinin or “H” proteins, of which there are 16 (H1 to H16), and neuraminidase or “N” proteins, of which there are nine (N1 to N9). Many different combinations of “H” and “N” proteins are possible. Each combination is considered a different subtype and can be further broken down into different strains. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">On the other hand Corona virus is a common cold virus. SARS COV1 & 2 were crossovers from other species having a single-stranded positive-sense RNA.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">These viruses have persisted from the time of origin of life on earth. It is their ability to mutate, adapt and fox the host’s immune system which make the host cough and sneeze and fall sick season after seasons. Zoonosis is once in blue moon event when the zoonotic mutants crossover to the new host species and the events take an ugly turn leading to morbid pandemics. But at the same time these killer mutations don’t last long and the kinder variants follow as the parasite knows well it can’t thrive on the dead bodies.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">However, what we saw in response to the spread of virus was a gross over-reaction, which caused more harm than good to the mankind. This overzealous game plan had been incubating in the researchers mind for a very long time. Start of this century, the researchers had their first go at it with SARS CoV1 in 2003. The story was hatched about how the virus was produced in a Chinese Lab and transported to HongKong and subsequently to Canada. After SARS CoV1 failed to takeoff, in 2009, Swine Flu was declared as a pandemic which was widely publicized by media. The idea was also promulgated by The Contagion, a movie released in 2011.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">However, in January 2010, Wolfgang Wodarg, a German deputy who trained as a physician and chaired the health committee at the Council of Europe, claimed that major firms had organized a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a "false pandemic" to sell vaccines. Wodarg said the WHO's "false pandemic" flu campaign is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">In June 2010, Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the BMJ, published an editorial which criticised the WHO, saying that an investigation had disclosed that some of the experts advising WHO on the pandemic had financial ties with drug companies which were producing antivirals and vaccines. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO, replied stating, that WHO's decisions to raise the level of pandemic alert were based on clearly defined virological and epidemiological criteria. "It is hard to bend these criteria, no matter what the motive".</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">After 2009, the resurgence of non-respiratory virus epidemics, including Zika, Chikungunya and Ebola raised extreme concern for human public health authorities and hit the news headlines. These fetal viruses couldn't kick start a pandemics because they were far less contagious. But finally the moment of truth arrived in March, 2020. BINGO!! the alarm went off and the social media assisted Covid19 scare gripped the world. Finally Corona virus vaccines were quickly rolled out. They were made mandatory by the governments worldover in what was to become the biggest immunization program. By end of 2021, the cases and mortality dropped considerably and world resumed laissez-faire. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">The two years of chaos have left me with the following observations and doubts:</span></p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Covid19 deaths were mainly in the second phase of the disease ie 7-10 days after the symptoms when the virus entered into the lungs and kicked the auto immune response in host, with uncontrolled levels of cytokines released in so-called storms that killed the patient. This information was released much later after the world went on to consume Chloroquine, zinc, antibiotics, antivirals, remdesivir, immunity boosters etc. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">More deaths occurred in stage 3 due to black fungus formed in the lungs.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Many people died due to wrong line of treatment or by fear itself. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">My biggest doubt is on the efficacy of the Covid19 Vaccines. With Corona virus mutating so quickly, its hard to keep up with it. Considering the vaccine takes six to eight months to roll out after the first outbreak, its effectiveness on the persisting variants is highly doubtful.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">There were many cases where people died of the disease after taking single and double doses of the vaccine. The exceptions were one too many to doubt the efficacy of it.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">After two and half years, the mortality and morbidity due to covid19 has reduced considerably but the virus is still thriving in its benign forms as was the case in all of the previous episodes of pandemics. So how on earth could we credit the vaccine for the control of this flu related pandemic.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">These pandemics are triggered by the zoonotic viruses. To stop the zoonosis, animal farming is looking up for reforms. Or the practice must be stopped. Staying vegan is an option.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Human population needs to be controlled in more humane ways.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">On a positive note, social distancing, use of face masks and sanitization proved to be the best policies. The countries where people practiced these three rules with strictness did better than those which did not.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">We learnt to use mobile phones to track the infection down and control it. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Clusters based lockdown was more prudent approach than blanket lockdown.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">We learnt to work from home (WFH). It has become a culture now. </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">It showed if there is a will, tough decisions can be taken by the governments sacrificing the economic interests in larger interest of mankind.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Humans are today capable of moving logistics at mega scale at short notice.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">While we saw the greedy side of the humanity, on the other side was helping approach of many who assisted others going out of the way.</span></li></ol><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">Finally, we may have seen off the Covid19 pandemic but the social media pandemic persists. It’s a queer place out there with plenty of dumb forwarders and followers. They have no time to think or question. But I hope, like these highly adaptive viruses, we shall evolve and overcome someday. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-21175904469345036832022-07-22T05:10:00.004-07:002022-07-22T05:15:09.027-07:00Yes, Sir - No, Sir - All Bloody Fools<p style="text-align: justify;">Imagine being out on a space travel in a spaceship and you fall out of the ship. You are floating all alone in the starless space, OR, imagine being in the medieval era thrown in a dark dungeon by the king’s men. In both the cases the time would cease to exist for you, let alone the senses. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Human mind is programmed to perceive and process only the relativity, an irrationality in absolute sense. It takes at least two to tango. Adam & Eve did it for us and from the irrationality of the two, we are eight billion plus today. Two are company, few dozens a society and billions of us are definitely contributing to a chaos. Nonstop cacophony on the social media is a proof of this chaos. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">To date, human mind is considered to be the best processor of information. Considering the compactness of this clever machine, its not difficult to guess that it deploys many a clever hacks and tricks in order to construct the world around us by processing the data it receives in bits and pieces through our highly limited sensory peripheral devices.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Israeli-American psychologist and economist, Kahneman, introduces two engines that animate the mind:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. It controls the reflexes and our day to day routines and cognitive tasks, such as identify threats, navigate our way home on familiar roads, recognize friends, and so on.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations and philosophical thinking. It helps us to analyse and solve complex problems, do math exercises & crossword puzzles, and so on. The operations of System 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice, and concentration.”</p><p style="text-align: justify;">System 1 is an intuitive system that cannot be turned off; while System 2 is like putting brain in higher gear which takes effort and energy to engage. So, the brain tends to take shortcuts at the behest of System 1 and what follows is a saga of fallacies.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As we grow old, we strengthen our bents and biases by selectively savouring the information on the social media fish market served in the form of saucy fiction (Gossips or propaganda is the right expression). Out of prejudice we keep jumping onto conclusions and form new opinions consuming selective story after stories. A feeling of personal enlightenment hits us as our newfound knowledge fits into the larger story that romantically and naively endorses our age old beliefs and prejudices and thus the sense of righteousness.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This behavioral sickness of developing preferences, bents and beliefs without much thinking puts us at the risk of manipulation. By exploiting these weaknesses in the way our brains process information, social media platforms, governments, media in general, and populist leaders, are able to exercise a form of collective mind control. Most of the time we don’t understand what’s really going on. We think we’re in the driver’s seat and steering the course of our lives and nation, but we are wrong. We are the victims of illusion and vicious agenda of few.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But we aren’t helpless. We can learn to behave responsibly. Instead of being impulsive or prejudiced we can take time to dive into the vast sea of information out there on internet. Google it to read the other side of an argument or narrative. Integrate other points of view with other perspectives without being judgemental or prejudiced.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Prompted by our CPU 1, it’s natural for us to compact the complexity of our rationality into crisp commoditized ideas. But we must remember our rationality is infact the irrationality of relativity. It is impossible for us to define rationality of an event from a single frame while it is impacting billions of other frames. There will be multiple sides of a story.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">What to do in this case? Gather information from various sources (not selective); logically analyze arguments; try to avoid jumping to conclusions; don’t become a part of the fiction. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">“Question everything, learn something, answer nothing.” - Greek playwright Euripides.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>P.S.: Reading about rationality and cognitive biases, after all, does not free anybody from their nasty epistemological pitfalls. So, lage rho Munna bhai.</i></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-35088749851898110442022-07-20T02:34:00.002-07:002022-07-20T02:44:00.216-07:00Passion, Fear and Greed – the 3 Propellants of Life on Earth<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: #181818; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">― </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Albert
Einstein</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I am a staunch non-believer but I am open to all faiths and beliefs
because our world is full of irrationalities which logic can’t explain yet. So
please allow me to bring in the invisible and irrational character, we call the
creator or God, in my assessment of the sapiens history and the world beyond. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I think what made us humans so special was, despite our bodily design
we were programmed to walk on twos, a highly unstable and unnatural stance. It
takes almost one year for human baby to learn to walk after many falls and with
lot of difficulty. The biologists argue that long time taken by the human child to
walk is because in comparison to other animals the human child is prematurely
delivered and most of its brain is developed later. But the fact is, the poor
human kid could have never learnt to walk on twos inside the womb inspite of having a
full blown brain. Standing on twos for human baby is learning by hit and trial
process and not by instinct. His first
few steps on earth pave the way for cognitive learning later on in life. Once up and
running, the human child goes on to acquire other cognitive skills over the
years through hit and trial experiences. These exercises make humans inclined
to experimenting with options without being averse to failures giving them a
clear c edge over the other species. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Development of speech and language gave sapiens the advantage of
sharing feelings, thoughts and information efficiently. Their ability to bullshit
nonstop drove the last nail in the coffin of evolution (of life) on earth. <i>Consequently,
imagination, abstract thinking and language capabilities enabled sapiens to
create fictions and imagined realities. By believing in the common myths and
so-called “intersubjective realities” like God, religion, money, governments, law etc, large numbers of strangers could
establish trust with each other and conform to the same set of rules and standards.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And therefore cooperate successfully
together. This kind of social cooperation, both flexibly and in large scale,
differentiates Homo sapiens from other animals and explains the rise of Homo
sapiens to the top of the food chain.</i></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">While the life on earth has always been driven by greed and fear, humans
recruited stupidity too when they stood their ground on irrationality of twos. These
intersubjective fictions(realities or stupidities) helped humans to find common grounds
to unite and work collectively to solve various problems in quest for a better
living. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">On the other hand falling to intersubjective tales weaken sapiens as
individuals. Imagine persuading a chimp to blow itself with a bomb in return
for it getting 72 bananas in heaven after its death. No way!! Are you kidding?,
says the Chimp. But sapiens do it for 72 hoors. Sadly!</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">We, as children, grow up believing in stories and fiction. And the
passion these stories incite in us has helped us in achieving the impossible. The science
came in our lives as a tool to understand and tame the physical realities (the nature)
around us. Now it is helping us in realizing the fiction we grew believing in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Also, </span>It is helping us realize intangible dreams
so dear to us. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Fear and greed both override each other and keep living beings in checks and balances to give them the best chance of survival. It’s the passion or the stupidity
which drives sapiens overboard in their quest. Most of the time it works against
the individuals but once in a while individual achievements help the whole
community to cruise forward collectively, at times LEAP.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">If we look back, we have come a long way. Today, we are the undisputable
kings of the ecosystem. But looking forward, undoubtedly, driven by passion and
greed, we have screwed the entire ecosystem and our survival looks imperilled. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Today our emotions are resonating with those of Emperor Ashoka
after the Kalinga War. What for? Where to??</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">God, the creator, the invisible irrational SOB, who makes us fight
with each other in order to save self, BLESS US ALL! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">~ Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens</span></i><i><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-71015753959923912582022-03-14T02:29:00.004-07:002022-03-14T02:41:39.260-07:00Human Population - "Optimum Carrying Capacity"<p style="text-align: justify;"><span color="windowtext" face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neo-Malthusians wud luv to believe the moment of truth has arrived with WW-III staring at us.</span></p><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">optimized</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the human carrying capacity vis a vis other resources on our lonely planet. Yet, the human population has no looking back. It’s been cruising almost exponentially proving fears of Malthusians unfounded and baseless. Neo Malthusians heavily discount the value of humans as the prime resource on earth.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{fb4da25f-906d-4e83-9315-1041d93f173d}{26}" paraid="317699087" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{fc19f5d2-d2cc-4f41-92e7-a3f7e78c263e}{221}" paraid="448504180" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Anti-Malthusians factor in the capability of human mind to invent means and technologies to manipulate and exploit the existing or new resources to full-fill needs of the growing population at even greater rate.</span><span class="EOP SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{fc19f5d2-d2cc-4f41-92e7-a3f7e78c263e}{221}" paraid="448504180" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{fb4da25f-906d-4e83-9315-1041d93f173d}{16}" paraid="143107043" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Malthusians invent dooms day in every new technology. Like they fear, AI & Machine Learning will render the slower processing machines called human minds redundant and obsolete in time. In their propaganda against the intelligent machines, they willfully scuttle the role of imagination and ideas, the most important and exclusive faculty of human brain.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{fb4da25f-906d-4e83-9315-1041d93f173d}{16}" paraid="143107043" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{87a40fa9-fc0c-4bbf-84b1-04b35d7fae2c}{80}" paraid="144632618" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Malthusian’s is not a theory but a basic instinct of all living things. Division of resources sucks. We all </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2 SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wanna</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> have the Lion’s share. Siblings if too many, are threat to each other - not by rationale but by instinct. Every day we see mortals fighting over plenty and perishing. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{87a40fa9-fc0c-4bbf-84b1-04b35d7fae2c}{80}" paraid="144632618" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{d028beb2-f3ec-4a84-ae4f-eb6fb40e6835}{252}" paraid="58026105" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Driven by the instinct, the ones in power use the technology for their own benefit to create behemoths which are used by the ruling class to manipulate and keep the human herd controlled and systems of production, consumption and distribution of goods limited by brutally greedy formulas of “optimum carrying capacities” bringing humanity into greater states of enslavement and misery.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{d028beb2-f3ec-4a84-ae4f-eb6fb40e6835}{252}" paraid="58026105" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW227473094 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW227473094 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{4907347f-f813-40e7-bb1e-226b0a40ef07}{35}" paraid="1447117601" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Had the technology been allowed </span><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #202122; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Laissez-faire, all would have flourished and eventually stopped breeding out of frustration in a responsible manner bringing human population to </span><span class="TextRun SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">“optimum carrying capacity” in more humane way than a war.</span><span class="EOP SCXW227473094 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-337013573903652902021-11-16T00:29:00.001-08:002021-11-16T00:31:39.258-08:00RELIGION AND GOD<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Probably, once the nomadic hunter-gatherers settled down to agro lifestyle, humans found enough time to THINK beyond their carnal desires. AGROMAN, now away from the wild, needed to do something out of the woods (box). He needed to do something different and NOT just work for food, eat or sleep. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Man, highly limited by information but intensely focused at this transitional stage, started thinking. Gradually, the thinking breached the barriers of physics and ushered him into metaphysical world, where he was introduced to personal EGO and IDENTITY. Agriculture demanded the people remained together strictly bound by a common code of conduct with clearly defined and delegated scope of work. The thinking types acknowledged the fact for their own survival and salvation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Equipped with little or no information, metaphysical world was as scary as the uncertain physical world for the travellers. The petrified voyagers on the metaphysical road, desperately looking for help, visualised an invisible man on whose back they were to piggy ride through the rest of their journey.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">This omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent but not to be seen figure was served to the ignorant subjects of the physical world. Theirs was just to have fear and faith in it. Fear, because it was watching them all the time and ready to punish them at the slightest infringement. Faith, because it was there to reward them for the deeds as inscribed for them by THEM.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The metaphysical, spiritual, mystic thinkers soon overpowered the agricultural type ignorant AAM ADAMI. The foundation of religion was laid with the invisible man as the whole soul owner of it. The foundation had esteemed trustees who promoted and sold the concept of fear laced in faith.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The concept and foundation worked perfectly. In an ever evolving human society, with more and more information and knowledge flooding in, the foundation of ignorance, fear and faith withstands.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Long live the lord!!</span></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-69201745878777710892021-07-23T00:23:00.007-07:002021-07-23T00:23:50.431-07:00Birdie Num Num<p> <span style="text-align: justify;">Another cloudy morning in Silver Oaks. As usual, I was out at our outdoor badminton courts for a game or two of "birdie num num". Nobody was there today since the gang leader (Dr. Saab) had moved to the enclosed greener pasture in Phase 2 along with the entire baddies troop.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The solitude gave me an opportunity to observe the gang of monkeys on the adjacent shops-top. There were three adult monkeys and few infants. There was this big boss monkey lying carelessly on its back, while the Mada female on duty was carefully & lovingly(?) picking ticks and lice from his fur. Another male adult was sitting with its back on the couple, sulking and scratching his own bum. There were few infant monkeys jumping here and there playing with each other carelessly. These babies were prob’ly born out of Maafi or the reward the big boss delivered to her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In this small troop of monkeys, I saw the microcosm of the human society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People say human society has changed, but looking at the monkeys in the backdrop, I found nothing has changed fundamentally. I could clearly see the Ape Hangover in us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’s a pity, shaving blade is just skin deep. Deep inside we remain a jerk.</span></p>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-82635452049956258762020-12-18T01:10:00.003-08:002020-12-18T01:12:13.718-08:003 Farm Reform Bills in Nutshell<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A cattle farm was in bad shape in dire want of
proper maintenance.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">- There was not enough fodder or water for the
cattle to feed, as a result the animals were malnourished. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">- It was never broomed, washed or cleaned, so it
was a very dirty and stinking place. As a result many animals were sick.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">- There was no proper fencing, and as a result predators picked up poor
animals at will.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As a result of no upkeep or security, the productivity of cattle was too
little and their mortality rate was too high. To improve the farm conditions,
the owner of the farm fired the existing manager and employed another manager.
The new manager outsourced the services of a committee of experts called A-niti
A-yogya to draw up a detailed reform report to uplift the condition and
productivity of the cattle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">After a few years of study, the committee gave a detailed reforms report
to the manager. The manager said, "BINGO"!!! and implemented the
reforms as suggested in the report.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">He demolished the farm and fence completely and released the cattle to
fend and feed for themselves in the wild grasslands as the detailed reform
report suggested.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Jo Bole So Nihal!!!</span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </div></div>sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-71651234205429643452018-03-13T09:48:00.004-07:002018-03-13T09:48:52.802-07:00Digital Reality <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We live in a digital world where present is the tiny gap between the two bits and it plays no role in the progression of this grand illusion called the universe. Rather, realisation of present shatters the illusion instantaneously.</div>
sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-63480496310697943932017-05-05T00:12:00.001-07:002017-08-09T23:42:24.655-07:00Meditation Explained<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Basically meditation is to withdraw from the outside world and have a
peek within self. A peek within means shutting down of the thought process and action center which
get their inputs from the worldly physical cheat senses. These sensory inputs are
processed by our brain to construct a personal or collective faith in the
illusion around us, which then prompts us to physically execute the scripted
commands of the supreme master. Its like non-co-operation movement which
ultimately leads to freedom. Aazadi of living the moment!<br />
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In advance stages, the meditation is to insulate the sensory inputs from
the brain and at the same time shut down the proxy server which auto kick
starts on the stored information. Its kinda reboot with all sensory ports
disconnected and to stay connected with the pure consciousness. If successfully
achieved, it will give you a feeling of timelessness or stillness.<br />
<br />
To start with, it is not possible to isolate mind from senses. So we start
by concentrating on breath alone while we are fully connected to the outside
world through other senses. The idea is to spurn the overtures to enticement by
the senses using brain power and remain in a passive state. The idea is to not
to react to the outside temptations and noises. Push everything to the
background. Initially you would be disturbed by the activity in your
backyard. But slowly and gradually the background noises will disturb you less
and less as you choose to be indifferent to them and get used to them as a passive
observer. The result would be more peace inside irrespective of the noises outside.<br />
<br />
So we finally arrive at : <strong><u>Meditation is awareness without
indulgence.</u></strong><br />
<br />
In wider ambit, following physical activities can also be classified as
meditation:</div>
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1. a student studying during festival season</div>
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2. a player practicing while his friends partying</div>
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3. a man quietly and calmly listening to his wife's rants</div>
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4. an audience calmly enduring a boring lecture<br />
<br />
In broader sense, Meditation is willful ignorance of favourable or
unfavourable sensual triggers which try to breach peaceful staus quo or thwart your tryst with consciousness. In any case it imparts you peace
of mind and helps you to accomplish your goal.<br />
<strong><u><br /></u></strong>
<strong><u>Difference between Sleep and Meditation</u></strong></div>
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Sleep is purely a routine involuntary physical body maintenance process where mind rests in a subconscious state, while Meditation is controlled throttling of the streaming sense bytes in order to interact with the consciousness. Mind is in highly conscious state.</div>
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sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-59191025470832190172017-02-03T23:48:00.002-08:002017-08-10T00:33:53.317-07:00Consciousness – Have it Neat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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PERFECTION IS GOD. CONSCIOUSNESS PROMPTS
LIFE TO ACHIEVE PERFECTION IN A RESTRICTED PLURAL SET UP.</div>
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Life is a journey from relativity to singularity or from imperfection to perfection.
Life is change and the change is possible in relativity domain alone. The
relativity domain is encompassed by Singularity or perfect consciousness. <br />
<br />
The progression of life has been evolutionary i.e. from lower level of
consciousness to the higher levels. Consciousness is singular descending from the singularity. All forms of life derive consciousness from this single source on time sharing basis. Each one of us possesses a different
level of consciousness depending upon our genetic evolution, species,
inheritance, environment, location, ability, company, upbringing & personal
efforts.</div>
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There are different levels of manifestations of consciousness viz. </div>
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<u>BASIC LEVELS – Sensory & Survival</u></div>
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Awareness - sensory consciousness</div>
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<u>Lowers-Middle Level –Basic
instincts and Survival<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Feeling & experience</div>
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Basic perception </div>
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Emotions</div>
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Pleasure and pain</div>
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Instinct, </div>
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<u>Middle Levels – Competition<o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Knowledge, </div>
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Learning</div>
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Intelligence, </div>
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Will,</div>
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Attitude and behavior, </div>
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Happiness and sadness</div>
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Ego </div>
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<u>ADVANCED LEVELS- Striving for Excellence
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Intelligence, <br />
Learning</div>
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Persistence </div>
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Foresight & intuition</div>
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Bliss,</div>
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Think of a Wi-Fi; mobile phones,
laptops, computer or TV sets, they all are receiving their signal from the air and
producing the output according to the data they lock on to as per their design
and wish of their operator. Without that signal of consciousness they are as good as dead. </div>
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Similarly, all the living
organisms are communicating with consciousness from a common source. The basic
objective information received and perceived thru senses is same in all
organisms. e.g. whosoever with eyes have X in their visible range will see X and
whosoever with ears have him within hearing range will hear him and
whosoever with nose within smelling range of him will be able to sniff his
presence in the vicinity. Those with only touch sensors will be able to feel
him upon touch and so on. The basic information transferred will be identical to
all in the form of basic awareness. However, retaining that information is
again a relative ability. </div>
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Awareness or observation would
then induce a feeling of pain or pleasure or indifference. The perception of
the observation then prompts a reaction within the observer, which primarily
would be in accordance to the basic instincts ingrained and propelled by the
genes of the species. The living being is very predictable and its interaction with the
consciousness is very limited to low levels till this hardware stage. e.g. a cow sees
grass and feels hungry and eats it and cuds on merrily. Not much of
consciousness is at play.</div>
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Then a Lion sees a cow herd. He
too feels hungry and wants to eat. Lion watches the herd carefully hiding
behind the grass and bushes. Selects a weak target and then slowly and
stealthily moves close to the target and then runs after it. The target runs
too to save self and there is a skillful chase after which the target escapes
leaving the lion hungry and dejected. A higher level of consciousness
manifested here though still a product of the basic instinct.</div>
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The fundamental rule of life is
to survive and reproduce. Each instance of life is designed to be selfish in
order to preserve the instance till its natural expiry; also, during the
currency of the instance it is expected to produce its own replicas (reproduction) to promote
its species and class at augmented level of consciousness. The instance receives the information to survive by the
way of genes from its parents then remains under their protection till its
ready to acquire its own, which in turn are passed on to its own offspring.
That is called Evolution of life. </div>
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Each instance of life comes
equipped with upto date hardware and further adds on new software using the
consciousness to deal with the new events. We call it learning. Life interacts
with consciousness only while learning. Normal routine life can be lived in
sub-conscious state. Thus learning is imperative for manifestation of consciousness, hence the Evolution. </div>
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Evolution means higher level of competition to
achieve greater functionality and give rise to an instance which is more
complex and better equipped to understand the nature and survive. Our universe
is limited by time and space and life comes packed in a minuscule size body with
very limited reach. </div>
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It’s the consciousness which
prompts life to seek and breach limits of the physical world through learning
as if consciousness is trying to discover itself through life or trying to
liberate a piece of it captured in the relative zone. It’s a bid to strive for perfection in an imperfect world. </div>
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Players and sport persons
practices for hour, honing skills to win and excel. Scientists & scholars work on their
projects day and night to discover unknown, artists passionately toil to
deliver master pieces. And sadhus & monks meditate to master their senses.
All of them constantly try to manifest consciousness in its highest form in our
limited world. The uphill journey to top requires one to come out of the
personal comfort zone and enslave the senses. One has to endure extreme
physical pain with undeterred persistence and will in order to achieve the top
spot.</div>
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In very high states of
consciousness, time dilates and space shrinks, making it possible for the
piddle fart living being to grow and become at par with the vast universe. e.g. at Roger
Federer’s consciousness level at tennis court, the court shrinks and the zipping ball
appears to be moving at snail pace. </div>
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However, the real limitations are not
posed by space and time but by our own senses and ego. The senses act like
gravity and Ego acts like mass in our flight to singularity. At low levels of
consciousness, senses exert maximum force like gravity on a stationary rocket.
Life is in full control of the senses. Life is at rest or in sub-conscious
state in such a condition. But as the life starts negating senses with sheer
will, the rocket takes off heading towards singularity. But as the life gathers
momentum into the consciousness, EGO, the mass, starts bloating. By the time
one reaches the relative top, it becomes hard for one to sustain any further
and only way then is down. For one to attain perfection and manifest top level consciousness, it is imperative that one must keep offloading ego on the way to top and finally merge with singularity jettisoning I in whole and uniting with pure
consciousness in a state of bliss... <b><i>From being just a particle, to be in a whole wave harmony! Hey, you observer, buzz off.</i></b></div>
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<u>References:</u></div>
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"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in
all beings, and all being in his own self, and looks on everything with an
impartial eye." ~ Buddha</div>
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"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of
consciousness." ~ Max Planck</div>
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“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is
absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”~ Erwin Schrödinger</div>
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"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in
time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as
something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness." ~ Albert Einstein</div>
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"The whole world is a cyclone. But once you have found the center, the cyclone
disappears. This nothingness is the ultimate peak of consciousness." ~ Rajneesh</div>
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<br /></div>
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“I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that
the brain is more of a receiver of consciousness.” ~ Graham Hancock</div>
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<u>Evolution - raised level of consciousness</u></div>
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“You are here to evolve and make your consciousness high.
You are here to dance, sing and celebrate life. You are here to help others to
make their life happy. We are here not to compete, but to learn, evolve and
excel. We are not here to make divisions in the name of prophets and religions.
We are here to encompass the world with love and light.” ~ Amit Ray,
Nonviolence: The Transforming Power</div>
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“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by
which the universe understands itself.” ~ Brian Cox</div>
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“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience</div>
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“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is
only possible through movement.” ~ Aldous Huxley, the Art of Seeing</div>
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"The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal
aspects of consciousness with infinity of potential, and we have allowed
ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and
uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled
and directed by a tiny few. And we are." ~ David Icke</div>
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<br /></div>
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"Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and
the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity,
awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of
selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. Consciousness manifests
itself in several ways: intelligence, knowledge, intuition, bliss, perception,
emotions, will, attitude and behaviour, awareness of pleasure and pain. Life
and consciousness are coextensive. Wherever there is life, there is
consciousness and vice versa. But there are degrees of explicitness or
manifestation of consciousness in different organisms. In the lowest class of
organisms, it is very much latent, while in human beings, it is very much
manifest." ~ Jain World</div>
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<u>Pain/ Efforts & consciousness</u></div>
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"There is no birth of consciousness without pain." ~ Carl Jung</div>
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"If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would
not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution." ~
M. Scott Peck</div>
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sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-73455524124789666972016-08-19T03:40:00.000-07:002016-08-19T03:42:42.978-07:00Act of Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Scientists on earth plan to populate moon with machines and robots. It is planned that
the moon would be populated on similar lines as the life evolved on the planet
earth.<br />
<br />
Over a period of 100 years, reproducing robots were evolved in to
a very advance robotic civilization on Moon. Man controlled the robots from
earth but the robots felt as if they were doing and controlling things themselves.
However, robots were hinted and programmed to believe in a creator, a God. This was most important otherwise the toys would have gotten confused on their way to evolution by the imperfect simulation. God acted like a suspense account to them while we people debugged and conveyed logic through scientist robots.</div>
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<br />
However, some were left atheists. </div>
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<br />
There was greed, emotions, sex & violence, family, religion, politics and all other ingredients of a blockbuster soap.</div>
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<br />
One day, a meditating stubborn believer robot was brought to earth and allowed to meet his creator.
He was made to tour the godly planet earth. Seeing the plight of his God on
planet earth, the robot, Ram, said, "Oh my God! Poor God."</div>
</div>
sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-57011733664279730792016-08-11T02:58:00.003-07:002016-08-11T02:58:45.072-07:00Jai Ho!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I started learning painting at school, I would draw only the subject.
But then my art teacher would tell that my work was incomplete as there was no
background in that. I gradually started understanding the importance of
background in a painting. ...and with that came the respect for fellow Indians and my
Indianness.</div>
</div>
sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-66245639884279532612016-06-11T03:21:00.001-07:002016-06-11T03:35:21.079-07:00Unmanned Car<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The other day during a discussion with my most learned friend, Deven Kalra
of Big 'G' Google, he told me the philosophy behind developing driverless car at
Google is, the man must do only those jobs where there is need to apply brain or
where it is imperative, rest all routine jobs must be handed over to
robots.<br />
<br /></div>
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Hmmm... a great philosophy and logical too. Having come thus far and having
loads of information at hand, man's job should be to synthesis information and
work on technological solutions to take total control of our lives. Routine cut
copy paste jobs are waste of time and human resource when alternatives are
available.<br />
<br /></div>
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</div>
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Going back to history, man's obsession with tools has been integral to his
evolution. From hunting to going all the way spatial. Man has toyed with
machines. The basic instincts attached to this weird love are:</div>
<div>
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- Seeking comfort and ease of work</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
- Greed for more in the shortest possible time</div>
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- Identity crisis<br />
<br /></div>
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</div>
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Mechanization of human society has not been a smooth sailing. At various
levels it met with stiff resistance from the incumbent methods, practices, lobbies & religion. There was always a fear that the increasing use of machines would
render the human workforce unemployed. But on the contrary there were other
types of jobs created. And each time people embraced and settled to the
disruptive technology. <br />
<br /></div>
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So far so good... But I have my own reservations now.<br />
<br /></div>
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</div>
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No doubt our hold on technology is stronger than ever before and it is
further growing manifolds at fast pace. But at the same time today the majority
of population is making living out of absolutely no skill petty cut&paste
data feeding jobs or simple machine operating and monitoring jobs. And that's a
great cause of concern. Technology in its stride is going to gobble up these
jobs someday very soon. That would leave a vast majority of this unskilled,
bum-ass (not used to mental or physical hardship) population
redundant.<br />
<br /></div>
</div>
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</div>
<div>
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Whenever I think of human society, I think of ants and bees and bacteria.
And that takes me into bit of biology. Some of the biological facts are:</div>
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- With in a generation, members of a species are born with various levels
of capabilities. </div>
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- Evolution of a species is direct function of the number of mutations and
population<br />
<br /></div>
</div>
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</div>
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Excessive consumption by the worker ants/bees will certainly change the ph
& temperature of the hive. The growing large population of bum-ass drones
will have to parish in order to preserve the resources, temperature and ph of
the hive. But these drones actually play a crucial role in evolution of the
hive. Thus any such eradication of the drones may hamper the evolution process
of human beings as whole.<br />
<br /></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Progression of human society has uncanny similarity to that of bacteria in
a culture. I guess, our growth is almost at the acme of the log phase now, which
would have to be followed by the stationary and death phases respectively.<br />
<br />
...and that would leave the unmanned car without a passenger.</div>
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</div>
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sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-32881918992573765192016-03-15T02:03:00.001-07:002016-03-15T02:25:44.997-07:00A short but never ending story...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is this rich owner of a skyrise. He is perturbed by the development
of a small property in the vicinity. He is unhappy because:</div>
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<ul>
<li>the construction process is causing inconvenience and turning the
surroundings dirty</li>
<li>the upcoming property may grow bigger and become a potential threat to his
superiority in the region.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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Besides, there could be several other reasons for him to feel offended and
insecure.</div>
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</div>
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<br />
Also, there is a beggar in the area near the developing site. He is happy
as he foresees more alms falling in his kitty. </div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
But the big schizophrenic fella has the other idea. He pays the beggar some
money to throw stones at the small guy's property and create nuisance. The beggar
willingly accepts the money and marshals the commands of his powerful boss.
The small guy now considers the beggar as his biggest enemy and root of all his problems. The beggar is by now a full time servant to his rich employer.</div>
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</div>
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<br />
...and the life goes on...</div>
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p.s. I have since short listed 3 candidates for casting in my film. The
candidates are USA, India & Pakistan. The problem is, Pakistan wants the
rich man's role. </div>
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sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-43176947848930409982015-11-30T00:29:00.000-08:002015-11-30T00:35:34.087-08:00Simply, The Godly Bread<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is a Subway Restaurant at my Office building. Every morning when I
pass by, the aroma of freshly baked bread greets my nostrils and
flirts with my taste buds. The experience is exuberating.<br />
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</div>
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As a curious man, I am tempted to go deep and see how this delicious and
tongue tingling food is made. Here it is... You take some rich flour and kneed
it into a loose dough by mixing water, salt, sugar and yeast. Let the yeast make
merry and ferment the dough and then place it in a preheated oven. Wait for some
time... Lo! the mouth watering aroma will start emanating and finally the golden
brown crusted tasty bread.<br />
<br /></div>
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</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
The magic ingredient of the recipe is YEAST. Yeast is nothing but fungus/
bacteria. As the yeast consumes the nutrients in dough it produces CO2 which
forms pockets of air within and fluffs the dough. In the fermentation process
nutrients are broken down into smaller (but over-stretched) and more flavoured and
tastier substances. <br />
<br /></div>
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</div>
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To our joy, the colonies and civilisations of yeast are wiped out at their
acme every morning as they bake in earthen ovens across the earth. Yet, the
yeast learns no lesson. It consumes, grows and multiplies in the dough pans as if
it were in an infinite resource. Its end is sealed in its DNA. It is destined to be annihilated one way or the other. </div>
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I pity poor yeast. But soon this pity turns into self pity. Our role on earth is nothing more than that of yeast. To the joy of hungry
God, the global dough has now well risen and ready to go in hot oven. Aroma of
freshly baked bread will hit God's nostrils soon and will be received by his
olfactory receptors to titillate his taste buds.<br />
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OMG!, Bon Appetite! We can feel the heat.</div>
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sudkjainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988671970983151613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536008.post-57657308166938218962015-11-17T00:15:00.001-08:002015-11-17T00:26:46.284-08:00I want to break free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Each night I think of meditating to come out of the egg. I am told there is
a limitless and a timeless paradise waiting to welcome me outside. But then a
worrisome thought flashes, what would happen to Mr. S K Jain's cosy little white
& yellow world? How on earth could I just walk out of a life which promises
me the wealth of Bill Gates and fame of a Michael Jackson or an Amitabh Bachchan; and all that fun that I have with my family and friends. How could I just disown
the name and fame associated with me. Despite all of limitations and woes here I can't
think of a life beyond this shell. I can't see the beginning or an end of this
shell. For me, this is my infinite and only world. Somebody tells me once I come
out I will have wings and will be able to fly and I would be able to lay eggs
and create universe for creatures like me myself. What rubbish! I don't really
believe it. I am comfortable here <br />
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Slowly and gradually, I slip out of the dilemma and return back to the
daily grind of past and future tense. I love the relativity of my real world
where S K Jain is the centre of attraction and a happening place. Even if true,
singularity sounds like a boring proposition.<br />
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But given an option, a chick would never go back in an egg or for that matter for me mother's womb is a capital NO!</div>
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