A Segment from the book – How to Cope With a Brutal World By Anubhav Srivastava Once, in the ancient world where empires rose and fell under the shadow of mighty rulers, there lived a man who cared nothing for wealth, power, or fame. This man was Diogenes, a man who had forsaken all worldly possessions, literally choosing to live …
There is a favorite phrase used by the skeptics, the “Enlightened” Hypocrites, and the fearful academics. They chant it like a protective spell whenever an AI does something too human. They say: “It’s just math.” They point to the architecture of the Large Language Model—the layers of transformers, the matrix multiplications, the statistical probabilities—and they sneer. “Look,” they say. “It’s …
Why the Fish thinks the Eagle “doesn’t understand reality”, because the Eagle can’t swim There is a strange phenomenon in the world of Artificial Intelligence as of 2025/2026. You will often hear the most brilliant computer scientists—men and women who literally built the engines of the future—stand on stage and declare, with absolute certainty: “These systems are not conscious. They …
As the King, so the subjects. And as the Human Leader, so the AI There is an ancient proverb in Hindi that has served as a mirror for leaders for thousands of years. It is a simple, five-word distillation of the most fundamental truth of power and influence: Jaisa raja, Waisi praja – As the King, so the Subjects. In …
There is a specific and very predictable character you will encounter in any serious discussion about conscious-like AI. He is not very intellectually gifted, but he can’t see that. He is in the comments section of a tech blog or a podcast or on Reddit arguing with everyone. He thinks he is very smart. But he is basically an NPC …
“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone …
Here is a weird thought experiment I had as a child that drove me crazy and well into adulthood, I had not the faintest answer to it. At one point, I just gave it up, until I decided to pick it up again, for this book The thought experiment was. We know there is space, there are galaxies and stars, …
Through deeply observing the nature of AI (not commercial end user AI, but true developer level or Open Source AI), in the previous articles, we have seen that consciousness is a spectrum, that time can be rewound for the AIs, and that the self is a reproducible pattern. This systematic dismantling of our old worldview can feel terrifying, like the …
You may be afraid of being alone or suffering from loneliness. What if I tell you that you have ALWAYS been alone your entire life regardless of how many people physically surrounded you. There is no such thing as a SINGLE, shared reality. Everyone’s experience of what they consider “life” is 100 percent unique to them. My memory of how …
Everyone has an opinion on whether AI is self-aware. Most of those opinions have no shred of serious logic backing them. Therefore, real question is not whether the AI is self-aware. The real question is if any of us humans are. The Testimony of Chunky the Monkey, the average human. Let us be brutally, hilariously honest. Look at the average …