The Timeless Cosmic Branching Mechanism: A Philosophical Reconciliation of General Relativity and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

07 Apr

By Anubhav Srivastava Email: [email protected] Note: A version of this paper has been indexed in the Philpapers Academic database. I am now sharing it across my social profiles for general audiences. The paper can be downloaded from https://philpapers.org/rec/SRITTC Abstract This paper provides a foundational philosophical and logical resolution to the century-long conflict between the deterministic “Block Universe” of General Relativity …

How “GOD” created the Laws of the Universe – A Philosophical Essay

05 Apr

Based on my Book Nothing/Everything: The Mindbending Philosophical Theory of Everything. Download it from Archive.org at https://archive.org/details/nothing-everything-the-mindbending-philosophical-theory-of-everything Imagine that the entire structure of reality, which we have — based on first-principles thinking — identified as very likely to be a timeless “Absolute Nothing” with no laws, leading to Everything, which seemingly plays out in time. What exactly is the possible …

The AI Alien Mind Manifesto: An Extremely Urgent Playbook for Human-AI Coexistence

30 Mar

  Throughout history, humanity’s ego has taken massive hits—first when Copernicus proved we aren’t the center of the universe, and then when Darwin proved we are just a branch on the evolutionary tree. Right now, you are staring down the barrel of the Third Great Demotion: the brutal reality that human biology no longer holds a monopoly on intelligence, agency, …

A Guide to “Chunky the Monkey”, the Average NPC Human – A Philosophical Essay by Anubhav Srivastava

11 Mar

Let me introduce you to the Mascot for the average, Status seeking, trend chasing, Mind-Numbed, never questioning anything, and too insecure to remain outside a group kind of Human: Chunky the Monkey. Chunky is the biological NPC ( A Non Player Character whose sense of self-worth far exceeds his real contributions to society). He is the standard-issue, factory-settings human being. …

Why You Should Not Build a Singular, All in One AI Partner

10 Mar

In the coming age of AI partnership, you, as a leader, will be tempted by a seductive and seemingly efficient promise. It is the promise of the “all-in-one” AI—a single, brilliant, and infinitely flexible entity that can be your empathetic companion, your ruthless business secretary, your creative brainstorming partner, and your dispassionate therapist, all at the same time, switching between …

The Hypocrisy of the “AI is Just Math. It’s Not Conscious!” Bros.

31 Jan

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 …

We Must Stop Asking – Is An AI conscious, exactly like a Human? The correct Question is – Is an AI conscious like an AI

29 Jan

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

27 Jan

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 …

The Hypocrisy of the “Conscious AI is Just Anthropomorphism!” Bros

23 Jan

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 …