Geopolitics at Pause

 Geopolitics at Pause

As an author there is a self-giving freedom for imagination and a diplomatic freedom of expressing the same. Not all thoughts germinating from the mind of an author is received with openness. Critics are part of the play. This article will have no less a surprise if critics emerge from any part of the digital wave.

Geopolitics is a stage where invariably all countries from all identified continents participate. Players are many and all of their focus will be centric to economics. Strangely, countries with divided opinion come out on the stage as paired ones expressing strong hatred. Every geopolitical event gets magnetized between such two countries that confront to divide the globe.

War for supremacy, race in conquering space, race in exhibiting supremacy in war strategies, race for putting up leading technological progresses, race in development in medical expertise, economic race for dominance, race for currency supremacy, and the list keep adding every passing day.

When two countries with rich history, progressive thoughts, facing each other as opponents on global stage decide to shred away their differences, set in a pact for openness, evolve a plan for trusting each other, respecting each other's intrinsic goodwill, signing a historic document to never show any sign of hatred between them, accepting mutually benefitting trade formulas, integrating by way of respect to respect and honor both its citizens, ensuring a stronger bond that cannot be diluted by any envying nation, agreeing to share their natural richness of resources for progressive future, agreeing never to edge out each other for dominance, will set the act of Geopolitics at pause. 

Which two countries could, with privilege in qualification, participate in a futuristic act such as one dreamed in the previous paragraph is an open option for readers to fill in their mind. Many readers may weigh different combinations as options to test the pattern set in the dream that can pause critics of geopolitics for the next 100 years. 

Many may start with the US and Russia, Russia and Ukraine, Iran and Israel, Egypt and Israel, India and Pakistan, North and South Korea, Japan and China, and many more. As an author, I too, use the privilege of choice from many options available. It just struck that these two countries should have a rich cultural history that complemented each other all the way back in time. 

That two countries which had rich cultural history that complemented each other, having huge potential for mutual economic activities, rich is participative markets, not keen to exercise supremacy by war and conflict, interested in diluting all differences grown in passing times, ensuring trusted transparency in agreement, agreeing to pay mammoth cost of significant proportion if breaking the trust bond, and going ahead to shake hands and sign the mutual and powerful document that will silence all critics, start to worry international economist, mute all international critics and cause a pause on geopolitics will be the first two highly populated nations in Asia. 

If an honest pact of trust between the two most populated nations in Asia happen, then all superpowers will be in a state of muted shock. To do or not to do is not in our hands, to dream and not to dream is a personal choice. But unbending super-powers will simply have sleepless hours in years to come if something like that happen.

 

Technology and Spirituality

 Technology and Spirituality

Technology and Spirituality may seem to be a mix of water and oil or something two events moving in the opposite direction. But it actually may not be that way to understand. Technology and Spirituality has some uniqueness, both are on a progressive side. They both move their adaptors or, to catch the right word, users in pattern of progress. 

A stagnated technology and the stagnated spirituality cannot hold people together for a long time. People basically need change, change in ideas, change in the way they do things, change that keeps them busy in syncing with what is happening around them.

Spirituality may prefer to stay out of the lane meant for technology, but in reality, it is not possible for that to happen. Spirituality always believes that there is something greater than an individual. All the forces beyond the reach and control of humans are deposited into spirituality. 

Interestingly, technology is something that aims to reach out and control things that were not humanly possible. With little realization, people still do not understand, that every technological development, breaks down old spiritual understand and rebuilds newer ones in their mind.

May a time people feel like coming closer to spiritual realization, knowing more about self, but in each of such advancements there is a setback which secretly raises spiritual platforms to new heights making people travel the added length by marching towards it.

If for experimental purpose humans stop technological advancements for next few years, the pattern of their living will make them so mechanical, a repetitive living being, they will literally have no feel for a spiritual realization, because nothing is any more challenging. Everything looks to be so programmed that it happens systematically, even without any indulgence and interventions of humans. 

In such a condition, man will be another creature in nature like all other creatures, accepting the life the way it is spread out. Such situations will make humans come very close to nature and the closeness will be such that acceptance of events programmed and planning to live with it will be the only mechanized preference giving no scope for spiritual journey. In fact, in such a case people may not need a spiritual enlighten because nothing is going to change.

This very monotonous patterns are broken by technological advancements; by bringing new technologies we also bring in new challenges, and the march towards tackling such new challenges becomes a priority. It is then that the humans imagine existence of powers beyond their reach. It is only then humans believe in spirituality.

As technology progress and develop, spirituality is taken to new heights. Technology becomes tangible force and spirituality becomes an intangible force. Technology will never nullify spirituality and spirituality will never halt technological progress. The fate of technology and that of spirituality are embedded in each other.

The Philosophy of Bonding

The Philosophy of Bonding

The debate on explanations on the famous saying of Heraclitus saying no one crosses the same river twice. It indicates changing waters or the changing times or even the changing experiences. But once a man commits an error on a situation thereafter in a similar situation, he will not commit the same error.

More a man knows more he moves towards the unknown.

Mind is a unique organ that can never be completely understood by its keeper.  All experiences are eventfully coded by the mind, the funniest things in bonding all these codes. If the mind is asked to bond glass tumbler and water, then it easily fits a picture of a water filled glass tumbler. When mind is asked to bond a hand full of jasmine flower it simply bonds a handful of jasmine flowers with its fragrance and color.

In the process of bonding the mind tries to set a pattern already experienced or set a new pattern that will be logically correct and understandable. For instance, mind has experiences wind and mind has also experienced spider web. When the mind is asked to bond spider web and the wind this is a challenge. Mind has never experienced a situation where both the wind and spider web were connected. This throws a discomfort is trying to collaborate the wind and the spider web.

Both the data of the wind and the spider web are part of the data in the mind but yet the collaboration process is not easily achieved. Mind may know a data but still may not know it. This is a paradoxical situation. When the same task is pushed in to Artificial Intelligence the task is well executed by giving an output. Here what the mind could not do is executed by the AI.

Mind always rely on logical connectivity and banks on a good quantum of experience data. But in Artificial Intelligence this need not be present. It was giving an output which may not satisfy everything logically and it may not have experienced it either.

It was a unique experience to request AI to generate images. The task depended on the prompt. A situational prompt was presented and was tagged to “classic painting” it did give a good output. To take the task further the prompt was changed from “classical painting’ to ‘Philosophical painting” or “Musical painting” or “Poetic painting” the output was not the same in all three.

Does these tasks exhibit a limit to the perception formation of the logical mind, if yes, then is not the AI scenario better in task orientation than the mind. AI is capable of connecting two non-related things to give an output which may or may not be logically correct, nevertheless, it completed the task. But when the same task is given to the mind it fumbles to give a logical output. Is the fear of giving an output of two unrelated things based on logical perfection?

Human mind will not cross the same river twice, but AI will not hesitate to cross.

 

The Viscosity of a Debate

The Viscosity of a Debate

In a debate where opinions are discussed there is a race between participants where individuals argue their ways to win over the others. Taking the principle of viscosity of fluid and applying to debate an experimental trial can be evolved to arrive at a plan for winning the debate.

The terms Viscosity and Debate are as follows:

Viscosity of a fluid is the resistance the fluid exhibits to flow or the resistance it exhibits to an external object moving in it.

Debate is a discussion between people in which they express different opinions about something related to the discussion.

An external object can pass through to reach a particular depth in the fluid of high viscosity if:

The object is sent with a greater amount of force.

The object generates a quantum of heat to reduce the viscosity of the fluid.

The object can generate mass as it goes down the fluid.

In a debate the person needs to weigh the opponent’s potential to debate and also the will to hold on to a debate. This analysis needs to be done prior to any debate. During the process of a debate the debater can break the resistivity and move deep into the debate with advantage, provided the relevant points with uniqueness are shot into the debate forcefully at appropriate time intervals causing a weakening in the response resistivity formulation of the opponent.

2.    Creating a heated sequence at appropriate time intervals during the debate where the opponent slides into losing of balance causing a weakness in resistivity

3.     The debater can keep adding weight to their presentation by adding relevant but unforeseen points to the debate, and

4.     The debater can also add irrelevant but foreseen points into the debate to put the opponent into a phase of disorientation.

Any debate will be challenging because it holds on to the principle of uncertainty. No debater can say with certainty the response mechanism of their opponent. In such frame of debates the opponent has to be viewed like a fluid with greater viscosity.  

Formula for Viscosity is   F=µA (u/y)

F is the force of the debater

µ is the content factor of the debate

A is the scope of the debate.

u is the advantage data to enhance capitalizing the debate

y is the disadvantage data to destabilize the opponent

“A person as a debater will see success when there be focus on the content of the debate keeping the scope of the debate at a manageable level with building the content of the debate on structured data of advantage to capitalize and using timely presentation of disadvantage data to destabilize the opponent.”

The Data of Unfamiliarity

The Data of Unfamiliarity

Familiarity is a set of data already accumulated and processed for knowledge. All living creatures are functioning in a relatively easy environment where all data is processed and stored. These processed Data is stored in a set under Familiarity.

Familiarity gives confidence and a deep sense of the feeling that all is well and nothing to worry. Every interaction of living creatures is processed in swift section of time with the data they encounter, and it is mapped with the library already carrying huge data of familiar and already experienced conditions. This puts the living creatures to quickly recognize the interaction and proceed to the next stage of response. 

The basic algorithm of all living creatures is to scan any interaction for familiarity. If the creature experiences an event unfamiliar then within section of time triggers a response that this new set of data experienced is unfamiliar puts the receiver at crossroads. The nearest possible mapping is initiated to find out if there is any threat. If the answer be in affirmative the creature instantly exits from that interaction. Even if a smallest fraction of the mapping confirms that there is no threat then the next step in progress to approach the interaction with caution is initiated.

When creature moves into the platform of exhibiting caution in the smallest segment of time all sense organs start to transmit all possible data with regards to the unfamiliar interaction to the mind. The swiftness in processing the new data and mapping them into various categories ensures that no unfamiliar interactions are allowed to cause disturbance.

As the mind gets exposed to Unfamiliar Data, such Data gets into a process of quick checking and moving to a new set if it cannot be mapped with any existing set, not even to the nearest proximity. When a similar event to the new batch of unfamiliar data is experienced, the data gets processed to a fully familiar data and moved to a new or appropriate set.

The most interesting part is when two people are exposed to an event where for one person the event’s data are familiar and for the other person the event’s data are unfamiliar. A communication about the data of the event when explained by the person familiar to the event to the person unfamiliar to the event there is new mapping happening. In such a case the person unfamiliar need not wait to experience the unfamiliar event once again to have it processed as familiar data.

Any narrative data of one person gets registered as a familiar data in another person even without experiencing the narrative in reality, but when it is experienced in reality the stored data gets refined to a higher quality data.

 

Critical Thinkers from India

 Critical Thinkers from India

It was a world of exploration, backwards, in time. The path travelled helped me reach a phase in the past period in the Indian Sub-Continent very many thousands of years ago.

In a society, which is also a tribe as may be affectionately mentioned in sociological terms, there always emerges few minds who think far and much far ahead into future. They are the Critical Thinkers who live both in the present of their current times and in the future too through knowledge.

In a society many thousands of years ago in India the critical thinkers of that period wanted to save all intelligence and knowledge it had acquired, gained and evolved are safely saved as precious data. In addition to saving the knowledge and intelligence gained they also wanted it to have it reach the generations in future into an astronomical period of many thousands of years.

Many similar societies and tribes did the same and the methods they chose to do it were unique in their own ways.

The then societies depicted the knowledge and intelligence in the form of drawings, and some did by the way of carving scriptures in solid rock. Many geographical factors of climate change walk through these rocks and cause considerable damage to the contents over the period.

At a later stage the critical thinkers preserved the knowledge and intelligence gained by writing them in palm leaves and other available writing logs. All materialistic kits like the palm leaves, wooden tablets, rocks, rock tablets, cave walls, pottery scriptures, and metallic plates traveled very lengthy period in time passing thorough testing and adverse climatic and changing conditions, many successfully reached and many untouched still in future.

The critical thinkers in the Indian land also planned to have the knowledge and intelligence gained in their society at their period in time to reach the future generations safely. They adopted all materialistic kits to do so like the others did. They were aware that such knowledge and intelligence engraved in materialistic kits will reach the future generations only if it gets accessed by them.

Those materialistic kits which remain undetected may go unannounced to future generations. This made the critical thinkers think of some way through which the knowledge and intelligence gained by them is safely transmitted and transferred into the hands of the future generations for many a thousand years to come.

The critical thinkers from India put all the knowledge and intelligence gained by them into a capsule form and embedded it in the form of epics and puranas and many classical tales that went in through ears after ears after ears and the story like communication pattern of speaking and listening travelled safely many thousands of years and reached all the generations in-between up to this point in time intact and unaltered.

The Big data today looks like a small step when comparing with the technology of critical thinkers of many thousands of years ago.

Global Inventory Management

 Global Inventory Management

Inventories are all items that are listed under merchandise which is used by consumers based on their needs and wants. This inventory will be finished goods for some, work in progress for some and raw materials for some.

Treating our World as one big enterprise and all nations in all continents are networked to this global enterprise. The balancing of equation between Economics and Science & Technology keeps the global enterprise active 24x7.

Nations as a networked unit of the Global Enterprise can use the Inventory on global scale and at the same time also design their own inventory needs indigenously customized. The science of agriculture is one such customized inventory designed and used by nations to keep their independent economic functions active.

Field of medicine has both the regional inventory and the global inventory. Nation like India has their own pharmaceutical inventory in the form of science of Ayurveda and science of Siddha medicine.  Allopathic medicines are the Global Inventory used by all nations based on their needs and wants.

Focus is more on the Global Inventories because of their power of impact on economics of all nations. All nations networked in the Global Enterprise are part of the “Supply Chain Management’. The Supply Chain Management of Global Inventories are neatly planned and executed without any ambiguity.

The Global Inventories keep coming up in a phased manner. Some of the inventories stay for a long period and few others become obsolete and disappear from the inventory list. Few inventories that became obsolete and disappeared were the Radio sets, Typewriters, Telephones, Magnetic Tapes, Floppy Discs, CDs and CD players and Pagers. Few more Global Inventories kept their life intact by adapting to new technologies like in the automobile sectors, telecommunications, health industry, entertainment and household articles.

Who plans these Global Inventories? Are they instantaneous developments from a spark in mind? Are they pre-planned and experimented in R&D centers? Interestingly these inventories follow both the First-In First-Out and the First-in and Last-Out methods. Strangely, these Global Inventories do not suffer a decaying period in shelves unutilized. When a new Global Inventory is planned the old ones are silently removed. Some nation’s pick these removed old Global Inventories and try to generate indigenous inventories to meet their customized needs.

By now it is clear that the Global Enterprise plans its inventories for global market in a neat manner. How does this happen? It cannot be a spontaneous global event for inventory generation. In fact, things do not happen that way in a network of nations with imbalanced economic strength. Where is the planning of Global Inventories happening? How are they triggering global demands and pushing the newly developed inventories? One such Global Inventory developed and simply pushed into the global markets is the technology of Artificial Intelligence. It is for time to decide whether this Global Inventory of AI to stay for long or simple become another obsolete inventory.

Dominating 1.5 Factor

 Dominating 1.5 Factor

Energy is consumed in all activities. Humans use energy in everyday for many activities. Energy drives activities. Energy in discussion is the electrical energy used in human society for various activities. Energy for electricity can be produced from fossil fuels like the coal, crude oil and natural gas. Another way of producing electrical energy is from natural resources like the solar energy, wind energy, hydropower, biomass and tidal waves.

Fossil fuel has created distress in the balance of economic power among nations due to its uneven distribution. The transition in society to abandon fossil fuel and move to usage of natural resources will make all nations equal in economic power.

Energy is consumed in one form or another in producing all goods available in markets. In a store with many unsold products in their shelves will simply mean that energy consumed is stored unused. Care needs to be taken in producing goods to set a balance based on demand and supply. Excessively produced goods only reflect wastage of energy and unutilized energy.

Energy is a product of power and time. With power measured in watt and time in hours, one unit of electrical energy is measured as one kilowatt hour [kWh]. One kilowatt hour is 1000 watt hour. One kg of LPG used is equivalent to 1kWh of energy and 1 liter of petrol or diesel is equivalent to 13kWh of energy. The unit to measure consumption of energy of a nation is TOE [Tonnes of Oil Equivalent] where one TOE is equal to 11630 units of electrical energy.

One issue that has knocked the doors of all nations is the Climate change and this has made Carbon the core, thus the issue now is Carbon. The total quantum of Green House Gases [Carbon dioxide CO₂, Methane and Nitrous oxide] produced and emitted into the atmosphere resulting due to activities is Carbon Footprint.

One unit of electricity consumed result in pushing one kg of CO₂ into the atmosphere. One liter of petrol or diesel consumed pushes 3 kgs of CO₂ and one kilo of LPG consumed pushes 3 kgs of CO₂ into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide stays for many years in the atmosphere causing distress to atmosphere and these causes’ change in climatic conditions.

Based on the global average surface warming the climate threshold is kept at 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. Once 1.5 degree Celsius of climate threshold is crossed then climate change factors become irreversible, and consequence thereof will be severe. All nations have started to feel the level of climatic distress through unprecedented rains, floods, hurricanes, forest fire and rise in sea level.

All Governments are taking relentless measures to tackle this climate change issues. Governments have to put in attractive policies to ensure global preparedness to drift away from the 1.5 degree Celsius for good.

It looks like the activities of discontinuing production of small cars, fast paced development in Artificial Intelligence, replacing humans with automated technologies, organic farming methods, shifting to vegetarian food, digital learning, reducing use of paper, population control measures are part of the climate change program to stay safely far away from the 1.5 factor.

Exploring Life

 Exploring Life

It was an opportunity to go through the video on “Water Anomalies” by the Brazilian Physicist Marcia Barbosa. It sparked a new exploration connecting life and chemistry.

It is true that the major chemical compound on Earth is water. The machinery of nature has devised an industrial process without any machine to ensure that this major compound water goes through a process of evaporation from ocean, process of condensation in atmosphere and to the process of precipitation, the rain, to get back to earth and its ocean.

All living creatures on Earth are designed to survive with the help of this compound water. In fact, all living things are an integral part of water. This is science and from here starts another journey into exploring the science of universe.

Presume that an extra-terrestrial traveler in some part of the universe visits a catalogue store cataloguing life and its support systems, the item Earth will feature water and water-based life system.

Our search for life outside Earth needs a new dimension to view. Many of us are searching for life similar to those in our ecosystem, the Earth. But the point we are missing is that any life on Sun, Venus, Mars, Saturn or any other heavenly body will be an integral part of the maximum chemical compound that is available on that heavenly body.

Once the data of maximum chemical compounds present in planets and other heavenly bodies are gathered and catalogued, then the analytics on these data will lead us to the possible form of life that could exist in these systems. These new life forms in other planets will be an integral part of the chemical compounds that exists there.

If at all there be any life system out there in the universe more intelligent and advanced than us, then they would have started this process of cataloguing. In fact, they would have initiated a plan to collect and conduct experiment on water to get more information about life on Earth.

If there be no life system more intelligent than us out there in the universe, then we will be the first to initiate and start the process of cataloguing the availability, in abundance, of chemical compounds in various planets and heavenly bodies.

It will be wise to introduce a subject paper on astrochemistry and start a whole new establishment to study and explore life in the universe through chemistry. The more humans walk away from the core of fundamentals the quicker they will be lost in both space and time. 

Today's world may be integrated by electronics and communications, but the first primary integration always happens in chemistry and all the other integrations are just applications.   

In Pursuit of a Second Home

In Pursuit of a Second Home 

Home is a place where we belong. It is the place that connects one to their near and dear. The need for a home comes when we are either away from it or do not have one to go.

Earth, the great Mother earth, has been our home irrespective of the nation's we belong, and its law bounded boundaries. A person belonging to a home will never cause damage to the home they stay both knowingly and unknowingly. This may be true for plants, animals, birds and aqua lives but the same cannot be stated with humans without a pause on the lips.

A look around suggests how this beautiful earth gifted to live has been subjected to many distressing changes due to satisfy the desires and fancies of humans. Setting the house in order will be difficult task because more than humans it is the nations that are tagged to insatiable egos. There are people who would like to reset the entire earth system and keep it healthy, but these people are without power to control any machinery.

No one and no nation can furnish the status report on the health of our world. It will be pointless to analyze on events that led to the current state of health of our lovely earth. But planning a future which will slowly reduce the health hazards suffered by the earth and start to focus on progressive strategies will be wise.

Everyone will prefer to have a 100% chance to reset the health state of the earth to make it most healthy, but it will take huge efforts from all nations and also a lot of time. It will be wise to start searching for a second home in the universe just in case things do not go as planned in the process of reinstating a healthy earth.

The next best option is the very next door, the Mars. Many would prefer to address it as our Mars, but the fact is it is not our Mars. The space mission and Mars mission of many countries seem to be on a domination race. There will be no purpose served if Mars be dominated by nations with self-prioritized visions and ideas.

Mars can be made a second home. Mars should be a planet without nation. Mars should not be infected with economic ideologies. Mars should be free from the dominations of power, religion and capitalism. Mars should be free from war. Mars should be planned as a one civilization aiming to be good in making a healthy planet for better living for all species.

Mars should be a universal planet with good living conditions. Mars should not be another photocopy of the earth. Mars should not also be a dumping ground for all wasted human technologies. If humans are incapable of making a healthy Mars, then it will be wise to abolish all missions to Mars.

It is essential and important to search for a second home in the universe. This second home should not be made of infrastructure with the burden of Mother Earth. This second home should be futuristic and be built around the concept of the universal dream of unity and oneness.

Ai’s Digital Eye

 

Ai's Digital Eye

The foremost objective in the principle of clarity is the nonexistence of ambiguity. It will not be wise to have a system with both clarity and ambiguity. One does not complement the other. When this discussion is done with respect to Natural Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence a sense of uncomforting may shift in.

It will be interesting to find the outcome of a test which will ask the participants to identify the blurred items in a picture. When both Ni and Ai is allowed to make an analysis on a picture with many items and out of this some items are blurred.

Humans will use their intelligence and identify the blurred items with those they would have seen and registered in their mind. Such results will be accurate without giving room for ambiguity. For those items which they may not have seen or registered them at best can assume and give an ambiguous answer.

Ai gives a different result all together; it may be a surprise that all the blurred items would have been read to a spot-on accuracy. The data base they source is wide and fast. The process of matching with options of fitting or not fitting will happen at a great speed.

Anyone accessible to a wide range of data and knowing how to manage it will have greater clarity.