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I am currently reading Max Benett's "A Brief History of Intelligence" - which is profoundly engaging - in which Benett charts the major evolutionary breakthroughs in the development of intelligence. With each chapter, he offers fascinating insights on how intelligence, as we understand tod...
29.06.26 01:07 PM - Comment(s)

I was listening to Raj Shamani's podcast with Dr. Vidita Vaidya, Neuroscientist, TIFR Mumbai, recently,
and one particular segment where Raj questions Dr Vaidya on social media addiction stood out for me.
I think it's somewhere around 1:37.25 to 1.45.

Raj asks a very relatable question: (paraphr...



29.06.26 01:07 PM - Comment(s)

Introduction

In the movie Her (2013), Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a lonely writer who is on the verge of separating from his wife Catherine, played by Rooney Mara. To cope with his loneliness, he purchases an OS (Artificially Intelligent Operating system), which is designed to adapt based...
19.11.25 09:08 AM - Comment(s)

Morals are stupendously complicated, because they are not clear-cut facts. Instead, they are value judgements. It's hard to explain morality, because it takes you into a regress. Let's do this: assume you roughly define morality as principles about RIGHT and WRONG, or GOOD and EVIL. Now, how do...

22.07.24 10:17 PM - Comment(s)

Bharat has a very rich intellectual and spiritual tradition spanning more than 3000-5000 years. The intellectual, as well as the, spiritual corpus of the sub-continent is captured in the 4 Vedas.


What do the Vedas contain?

The Vedas contain the mystical/spiritual experiences of various Rishis. Most of...

03.03.24 08:03 PM - Comment(s)