An inquiry into Intelligence, Consciousness and Atman There is so much discussion today about whether Artificial Intelligence will eventually become conscious. As AI becomes more intelligent, more human-like and maybe one day far more capable than us, this question will only become louder. If an AI can talk like us, reason like us, create like us, remember better than us and even say, “I am conscious,” will we eventually have to accept th
Before You Build a Machine Smarter Than Us, Please Understand the Human Being Dear Silicon Valley, I am not a technologist. I don't understand your codes, chips, neural networks or the billions of calculations happening inside your machines. But I understand something about the human mind. And perhaps right now, that matters just as much. I have been watching this race towards Artificial Intelligence with fascination, excitement and, in
A White Paper on the Race Humanity Cannot Afford to Lose A civilisational inquiry into artificial intelligence, human redundancy, consciousness and the future of power Something very serious is happening in Silicon Valley, and I am not sure we are treating it with the seriousness it deserves. Artificial Intelligence is no longer moving like another technology cycle. It is beginning to move like a force capable of reorganising civilisation
A personal journey from identity to something beyond it My journey to Kailash did not begin when I first reached there in 2019. It began when I was around five years old. I did not know where Kailash was. I did not know its geography, its history, or its spiritual significance. I knew nothing about the difficult journey people take to reach it. But somewhere inside me there was a strange pull towards Kailash, and an equally strange certainty
What that extraordinary fact means for you, for humanity, and for the world we are building together. Sadhavi Khosla I have been carrying this piece for a long time. Not in a notebook or as an idea waiting to be written. But as a lived feeling, something I encountered first on the footsteps of Kailash, the abode of Shiva (the axis mundi of the world), when everything unnecessary had fallen away from me and what remained was so simple and s
I first set foot on American soil in 2005. I worked & lived in Michigan. I traveled across states. I felt something that I had never quite felt anywhere else on earth. An energy. A belief. A palpable sense that anything was possible here. That the American dream was real. That this was a place where a human being could arrive from anywhere with nothing and become something extraordinary through the sheer force of their own will and their own