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Friday, August 18, 2023
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Collective conversational peer review of Glorious Alchemy
More about collective conversational peer review here : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
More about the book being reviewed here : https://www.amazon.in/
Collective peer review initiated by sharing a leaf from the book
[4/15, 6:55 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Ancient evidence for LLM tools such as chatGPT in healthcare? Check out the area of Sri yantra marked as Vasukona!
[4/15, 7:52 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Wonderful schema 👏
Bindu and Trikona are evidenced (shastra pramana) by tratak
What is the evidence offered for Vasukona?
[4/15, 8:56 AM] Rakesh Biswas: The center point of the yantra keeps trying and trying again to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the thousand petalled lotus yantra to merge with itself
[4/15, 8:57 AM] Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims:
What's the 'triad' to be collapsed to attain 'bindu'?
[4/15, 8:58 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Read the book or even review the literature!
This is one paper based book I have continued to read without reviewing the literature
[4/15, 8:59 AM] Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims: @Abhishek Aye AI Bindu means singularity?
[4/15, 9:15 AM] Kshitij 2018 Kims: +1?
[4/15, 9:48 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Nice contention...
But *which* singularity?
Time, space, consciousness, energy... something else?
[4/15, 10:00 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Singularity is one and only
[4/15, 10:09 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: That is a challenge...
The *one* vs many *singularities* is a often a misrepresented concept...
Any exponential growth with no upper limit, or at least a feasible upper limit, is a singularity
There can always be multiple singularities
For instance, the singularity I often refer to is the *technological singularity*... that is the point of explosion *whereafter technology is capable of improving itself*
This is what we refer to as S*
However, the tech singularity will be slave to *energy* availability
Hence the next singularity will be *energy singularity*
[4/15, 10:15 AM] Rakesh Biswas: What you refer to is the single focus of a certain area that exists in duality or plurality if you will
We refer to the one and only
[4/15, 10:19 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Pertinent, and subsumptive, to S* are singularities feasible in all different avenues of human endeavour... typically covered under the UN ISIC
These are most certainly inclusive under the S* tech singularity... which may also be called the knowledge or consciousness singularity
[4/15, 10:21 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: However... this is very different from the *energy singularity*... which may also be considered to subsume the *matter singularity*
This is referred to in our internal literature as E*
[4/15, 10:22 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: S* and E* are essentially independent otherwise there can be no existence...
In classical literature, this may be taken as "purush" - S* and "prakriti" E*
[4/15, 10:26 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: There can be a contention of S* merging into E*, but that can only happen *before and after* creation but not within...
While we contend non duality, but the non-dual assumes properties... these two reach two independent systemic *pole*... and can only be merged at *zero*
[4/15, 10:35 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: The challenge of considering only a unique singularity and not looking at S* and E* independently is that there can be not a feasible implementation ...
Quite like the tachyon based mind.
This is actually the fallacy of Turing Machine... it needs infinite energy
[4/15, 10:36 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Hence, from implementation perspective, it is beneficial to look at each of the ISIC singularities independently...
[4/15, 10:37 AM] Rakesh Biswas: All implementation are within duality that may undergo dissolution into one
[4/15, 10:37 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: For instance the *medical or healthcare singularity*... x amount of medical research increases life expentency by x
[4/15, 10:40 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: That is the challenge... that *one* (philosophical answer here) cannot "exist", hence there is no question on "one"
That is the conceptual *ShiVa* ... *existence without*... that *which* before creation and after dissolution...
There cannot be even *truth and falsity* in that state.... the fundamental concept of *nasadiya suktam*
[4/15, 10:44 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: The consideration even of that *one* is *avidya*... and it is accepted as to *vidya* and *avidya* are conscientious axioms...
This was the point of contention between Adi Sankara and Mandan Mishra
Of whether, the *avidya* exists in *brahma* or *jeev*
Now in the non dualist tradition brahma and jeev are one... if that is so then avidya exists in the brahma... then the brahma with avidya is not brahma!
[4/15, 10:46 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Nailed it
That's our singularity
[4/15, 10:46 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: So a singularity... merging E* and S* cannot even be a singularity... it can only happen after dissolution
[4/15, 10:47 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Why not?
Okay let's just say they are one?
[4/15, 10:47 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: That is not a workable singularity and that is the beauty of the work of Ramanujacharya.... in *vishista advaita*
[4/15, 10:49 AM] Rakesh Biswas: It's like a book from where a huge world made of the same paper pops out once you open it
Once you close it the entire pop out goes inside and you are left with that one book
[4/15, 10:49 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: The concept of *they* cannot exist in that primordial state... there is no time... no space... no energy even...
[4/15, 10:50 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Well work ends there
[4/15, 10:50 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Yes they as in human perception or just before they become one
[4/15, 10:50 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: That "book" itself thereby violates the premises of singularity... for it to exists... it will need attributes
[4/15, 10:52 AM] Rakesh Biswas: It keeps pulsating between the form and formless (dissolution) states
[4/15, 10:53 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: That is where the concept of precept is necessary... the seed... or the seed provider...
The populist singularity concepts in vogue do not consider the dissolution of the Brahma
[4/15, 10:53 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Blame it on Hawking or Penrose ?
[4/15, 10:54 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Therefore, that is still avidya...
Yes it may pulsate... it does... and hence by your own contention... S* and E* are the emergent properties... hence purusha and prakriti
[4/15, 10:55 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Hence the question... which singularity?🙂
[4/15, 10:55 AM] Rakesh Biswas: The pulsating one
[4/15, 10:56 AM] Rakesh Biswas: The one with a pulse aka alive
[4/15, 10:56 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: They look at it more from what can be termed Charvak or at most Nyay...
Advaita ... is never supreme over Mimamsa or Vaisheshik
[4/15, 10:57 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: You miss the point!🙂
One... and pulsation...
That is not one..
[4/15, 10:57 AM] Rakesh Biswas: What are the differences between the three? Haven't reviewed yet
[4/15, 10:57 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Let me share some links on that... Good revision for me too 👍
[4/15, 10:59 AM] Rakesh Biswas: That one becomes two when alive?
[4/15, 11 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Anyway... as an aside... AyeAI's S* is a singularity for producing singularities...
Worldly... not extra sensory... hence AyeAM... autonomous cyberphysical metaverse
[4/15, 11:00 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: No... there isn't even death and life...
[4/15, 11:00 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: There is a subtle difference with Tantra on this count
[4/15, 11:01 AM] Rakesh Biswas: That's true
[4/15, 11:01 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: The best source / summary of these is in Adi Sankara's Atma shatakam
[4/15, 11:02 AM] Rakesh Biswas: The Kunji I'm reading has incorporated Mr Adi
[4/15, 11:02 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Tantra assumes duality...
And the target is *shrugging off the mortal coil*...
To be or not to be...
[4/15, 11:03 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Tantra is just a word for "systems"
[4/15, 11:03 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Need to read it to contend... there may be a different perspective... however, most often I have failed to see substance when writings are without experimentation... my own skepticist disposition
[4/15, 11:04 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: No... I refer specifically to the tantra of *Das mahavidya* sadhana
[4/15, 11:04 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Yes it's for first years into this branch (like me) 🙂
[4/15, 11:05 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Yes got that
The book is again the author's personal roadmap for attaining those
[4/15, 11:06 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: The elemental *last* step... is non consequential...
Those claiming otherwise... subject them to the litmus test... of your psy dept 🙂🙏
[4/15, 11:07 AM] Rakesh Biswas: This author's last step is in the pulsation of the center around which the triad collapses (and there are many triads of plurality) @Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims
[4/15, 11:07 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: I wouldn't contend earlier... but now there is positively documented correlation of a better prediction of elements of nature... specifically rain...
Without contention its difficult to comprehend... 🙏
[4/15, 11:08 AM] Rakesh Biswas: I guess as human first years eager to start making a marK we just tend to imitate a role model
[4/15, 11:09 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: But those remain toys 😁... a few are non consequential...
Singularity is not necessarily *samadhi*... which is a psychological state...
Equally attainable through LSD!
[4/15, 11:09 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Agreed. That it is not
[4/15, 11:11 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: That is perfectly fine, in my opinion...
My challenge has been my skepticist disposition... I haven't found many who tolerate the bombardment of counters😀
The last time someone did, our super computer was at the top... and that gentleman believes he is far removed from anything to do with philosophy
[4/15, 11:14 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Try it if you like...
I will give you Swami Vivekananda's three day challenge... again let me find the original text... intrlicution is likely to spoil your experience of a beautiful paradigm...
Let me just assert it work...
[4/15, 11:14 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: And my witness here shall be @Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims 😀
Check your messages for rain...
[4/15, 11:14 AM] Rakesh Biswas: Will be looking forward to it
[4/15, 11:16 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: You already work with Earth... both your garden and your patients... maybe a deeper analysis... against probability of cure vs predictable outcome... After discounting extraneous factors will give you a retrospective on where you have humbly denied it 🙏
[4/15, 11:17 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Most recent in my list has been fire... and without a knowledgeable guide I wouldn't want to delve into that...
[4/15, 11:19 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Now... how do we test these statements are not products of *grandiose delusions*?
Psychologists had to conflate with "originality clouds protocol" 😜
[4/15, 11:20 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Actually, I found both Penrose and Feynman mention this... Will share links
[4/15, 12:03 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/dqWVNjDcPXI
[4/15, 12:06 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Sorry... my repertoire of samples across all traditions is limited... hence shared from my regular toolbox...
Let me see if there is a closer allegory...
[4/15, 12:10 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/ZAnWI0-RIW4
Try this
[4/15, 12:11 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Ultimate "nature"... give us fearlessness
[4/15, 12:16 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/JTNn6-nlYQo
This gives English translation
Ignore some aspects that the translator took the liberty at modifying...
Human form is not mentioned as written...
[4/15, 12:17 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: We are trained, unfortunately, to reject naively the "other" view... listening to another viewpoint should not change our own resolve...
And let me quote Kazi Nazrul Islam on that...
[4/15, 12:18 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://countercurrents.org/
[4/15, 12:21 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtube.com/clip/
One of the best renditions by his son,
[4/15, 2:36 PM] Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims: His refutals to Shankara's advaitha philosophy are famous and respected by followers of Advaitha like Swami Sarvapriyananda.
There's a commentary book from TTD(Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam) on it.
[4/15, 2:36 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Exactly...
[4/15, 2:37 PM] Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims: He tells advaitha is somewhat Akin to nihilism
[4/15, 2:38 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Even if one is a pure advaitist... not sure how one can be... one has to follow methods of vishistha advaita to survive
[4/15, 2:40 PM] Dinesh 2015 Batch Kims: 'Ramaujas counter to 7 tenets of advaitha'
Can't find the pdf.
It's 3 to 4 pages,that's it
[4/15, 2:43 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The summary here on the Purusha - Prakriti / Jeev Brahma bhed should help interpret my earlier connotations today
[4/15, 3:04 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: These take a certain amount of structured study. Certainly way more non trivial than mere speculation based "out of tradition" narratives.
Somehow, more recently Indology scholars abroad have produced better papers than those here
[4/15, 3:24 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Now these become difficult to deal with academically!
No offense intended...
Vendanta in general is about more esoterism than Nyay or Vaisheshik traditions
[4/15, 3:26 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/bMDcDy72dvw
Will share playlists if I find
[4/15, 3:26 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtube.com/playlist?
Playlist: Yoga sutras
[4/15, 3:27 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtube.com/@Aarshnyas
Follow the playlists available here
[4/15, 3:29 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Arsh nyas
[4/15, 3:29 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtube.com/@
He covers Upanishads
[4/15, 3:32 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: They have the Veda samhitas...
[4/15, 3:35 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/TBNEizCsor0
Origin planet of these noyes and frequencies?
[4/15, 4:05 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://www.
[4/15, 8:08 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Lovely book...
Great for beginners... interestingly the author is a physician
[4/15, 8:10 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The consideration of _vamachara_ is subtle and beautiful
@Rakesh Biswas you may be familiar with _Baam Khepa_
[4/15, 8:24 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The focus on _hrim_ is appropriate for the householder...
The impatient* may want to engage _aim_ and _shreem_ with _hrim_ to activate dissolution faster. A bolus dose! But again, the author would have been careful that the book may be used as an auto didactic manual, and risks involved.
In traditional _kula_ methods _rajarajeswari_ is the third step before _tara_ and the timeless fearsome _kali_... some have prescribed _kamala_ by herself... some _neel saraswati_, though this should be first in my humble opinion as there exists a barrier created by social norms that needs to be shrugged off
The measure they say should be set by the guru... my experience found only meandering frauds or incompetent jokers in such garb
......
Impatient *like me 🙂 only few thousand hours I have had since birth and its already getting late!
[4/15, 8:28 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: In the _diksha_ section the author does identify that tradition wise the order of the mantras would be different
[4/15, 8:45 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: It's only in the separation of E* from S* that creation can exist
[4/15, 8:46 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: As was pointed out here
[4/15, 8:49 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Since _tantra_ has a older lineage than to Vedic analysis, at some point Swamiji was compelled, if I remember the reading correct, to give the correlates of vedic philosophical schools and _tantra_
[4/15, 8:53 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://snchd.medium.com/sri-
[4/16, 4:23 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Continuing with the "esoteric"...
the mystical is always intriguing 🧐 and we all love toys...
Yoga, vedanta, and tantra are about *practice*... the other schools of philosophy and thought are about *analysis* and, maybe very little, *synthesis*
We will look at some elements that I have gone public about, and one of them is a better *prediction of rain* than metereology departments... at times running on supercomputers I have crafted the components for!
[4/16, 9:11 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: Looks like we never covered the fundamental sutras
[4/16, 9:13 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/wM8Sm-_OAhs
This was possibly the first time I had heard the Nasadiya Suktam... Bharat Ek Khoj series on DD... primary school? Or younger?
[4/16, 9:18 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/Ugyrzr5Ds8o
He speaks from his theological frame of reference of a "personal" God... God as a person... vs an impersonal God...
[4/16, 9:19 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: He does cite from the Nasadiya Suktam at the beginning
[4/16, 9:24 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: He has mixed up Pongal and Paisam?
[4/16, 9:33 AM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/Nw2ONvI1j68
A UCSD Prof explains creationism in Vedic tradition
[4/16, 12 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/P-sTO3vhvr0
This one traditionally rendered and has English translations
[4/16, 12:03 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/0QiCFrzPPM0
Atma Shatkam
Also known as
Nirvan Shatkam
The six stanzas of life or liberation
[4/16, 12:06 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/q-ZCXjbMJ34
Another beautiful composition by Adi Shankara
[4/16, 12:10 PM] +91 88018 12118: https://youtu.be/ddlcxETNvb4
Nirvana shatakam by sadguru Isha foundations lyrics
[4/16, 12:34 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/0Vd6xbQDTYs
Shri Suktam ...
Worshipping the Creator in the form of the Mother...
Father, mother... these are allegorical only... exist in our dimension...
She is called Harini... while the common purport is that of a doe, a female deer... Hari ... Harini...
Hari is the primordial property of the creator which "seizes" our senses... Harini is the feminine form of Hari
Now, our worldly senses can only be seized by that which they desire... worldly satients... objects that satisfy the senses... in other words the Vishay of the Indriyas... the object of the senses...
Vishay Anu... the minutest, indivisible constituents that make up the Vishay... thereby... Vishnu ... which _samas_ is this word?
From there the common view of the personified Vishnu and Lakshmi arise...
Lakshmi... feminine target of the senses...
[4/16, 12:36 PM] Rakesh Biswas: Exactly and you may notice that she talks about the "descent of creation" (presumably from the one) along with the ascent of sadhana (toward one)?
[4/16, 12:47 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Ascent and descent are metaphorical... in _trataka_ the transcendence, the meditant and the meditation are expected to attain unity
[4/16, 12:48 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: But all this still remains within creation...
Hence cannot be an ultimate singularity without dissolut
[4/16, 12:52 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Just a disclaimer for anyone trying out tratak... Best do it under a guru... or at least with a peer around...
The brain enters states where you may need a little support...
[4/16, 12:53 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Its fun to observe how we can make the EEG dance even with a little practice of tratak for a few months
[4/16, 12:55 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Even my single channel device is able to capture that...
Neurosky Mindwave...
Or DIY folks can get EEG kit... just don't connect to any mains supply in any manner... again, only if you know what you're doing
[4/16, 12:58 PM] Rakesh Biswas: We need it in our ICU asap
[4/16, 1:00 PM] Rakesh Biswas: Agree dissolution is a must but the whole idea I guess is that of a state of dissolution that exists in singularity that we are currently able to witness from our dual or plural perch?
[4/16, 1:00 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: We cannot observe it...
[4/16, 1:01 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Observation is a mark or rather signature of duality
[4/16, 1:01 PM] Rakesh Biswas: Yes it can only be experienced?
[4/16, 1:01 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: It cannot be experienced either...
This is where Mimamsa and Vedanta differ
[4/16, 1:02 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: There can be realisation... that you are that...
But in that too... its not a true singularity... only its notion
[4/16, 1:07 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Even thoughts do not exist in the final state... there is no need to know... but there is all knowledge ..
Actually... this bit I demonstrate to my close collaborators using a Flatland to higher world transition based exploration of "dimensionality"...
I guess there is reason for that to be public too ..
Was holding onto too much of unpublished work... (because it was working 😁... you hold onto a work till its working .... whoever conjured this language called English... !!!)
[4/16, 1:14 PM] Rakesh Biswas: Reminds of Michio Kaku's Hyperspace
[4/16, 1:23 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Object of Hilberts work...
Almost everything needs to be proven in Hilbert manifolds now
[4/16, 1:23 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Hilbert manifolds
[4/16, 1:26 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The psychological dimension is mistaken with the physical....
There is a psychological attainment of unity... of an attainable state of mind...
Folks take partial examples from SMB Gita to justify that...
Whereas the author of SMB Gita actually gives the instance that life entails breathing... how can there be zero karma?
[4/16, 1:27 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The "one" state which causes realisation of the Brahma ... is not necessarily the psychological state of desire less (wrongly construed as libido less... that's possible through ADT... sorry no offence)
[4/16, 1:29 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The Nasadiya ref to there was no *all pervading water* is an improper translation... the archaic Sanskrit root for water is also the root dimensions... for flow
[4/16, 1:32 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Partial, or clandestine, interpretation of _brahma gyan_ schema leads to the idea that all will be known *just like that*...
That was not our tradition... that's bluffing...
Yes, the schema may be used to predict... but specific properties will be needed to get specific answers
[4/16, 1:33 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Next is the Purusha Suktam
[4/16, 1:35 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://youtu.be/1mAH98Eb5iY
The initial Shanti shloka is not translated...
[4/16, 1:36 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: The reference to 1000 is for very large... essentially the reference is to dimensionality schemas
[4/16, 1:51 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
This plant is called *bichuti* in Bangla... don't have its context in other languages...
It has a huge context in *self realization*... the psychological variant
[4/16, 1:53 PM] Abhishek Aye AI: Anyone claiming such innate tranquility of mind, just rub its prickles on their arms...
In about a minute, there may be a greater realisation...
Disclaimer: Not analysed for legal correctness... hardened criminals and trained special ops commandos may give false positives in this test
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Conscious Notebook :first few pages
The conscious notebook
A narrative human ontolOGY
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
New York
Contents
Rakesh Biswas
Preface i
Introduction iii
The Conscious Notebook vii
Prologue ix
Chapter 1 Introducing Darkness 1
Chapter 2 Once the Threads are Set…Must Continue to Weave 3
Chapter 3 Story of Samsara 5
Chapter 4 The Class…. Hard Clinical Analyses or a Bit of Velvet, Warm Tea 7
Chapter 5 Samsara’s Break- A New Life Format 9
Chapter 6 To All Members of this Mailing List 11
Chapter 7 Re: To All Members of this Mailing List 13
Chapter 8 Con Human Interface 15
Chapter 9 Con’s Battery Powered Notebook 17
Chapter 10 An Email to His Star Readers from Sutra 19
Chapter 11 A Collective Consciousness in your Mail Box 21
Chapter 12 Lets be Natural Numbers 23
Chapter 13 The Serpent Boss 25
Chapter 14 A Zillion Snoopings…Hidden Files 27
Chapter 15 The Night of the Bed of Flowers 29
Chapter 16 Pecking at those Thought Keys 31
Chapter 17 Why Teach an Old Con New… 33
Chapter 18 From Sutra’s Readers 35
Chapter 19 Pollinating for their Collective Bud 37
Chapter 20 An Idiot Con’s Guide to Humans 39
Chapter 21 The Failed Editor in Cheap 41
Chapter 22 A Non Pharmacological Baul Technique 43
Chapter 23 From the Class to Hardware Lab… Changing Domains 45
Chapter 24 Hardware Intensive Care 47
Chapter 25 Down to Earth Human Notebooks 49
Chapter 26 The Drowning Differentials 51
Chapter 27 Creation: Assembling from Junk 53
Chapter 28 First Rain Last Night; Poo-Wee, Yuck, Drat…End of an Illusion of Eternal Spring 55
Chapter 29 Anatomy- Hardware Junk Lab 57
Chapter 30 Spring, Finally, Overnight BLOOM!!!!!!!. 59
Chapter 31 Whatever You Wish is What you Get 61
Chapter 32 Needed Urgent: Passionate Lover for a Bored Wife 63
Chapter 33 Falling into a Different Dream 65
Chapter 34 Swiss Cheese Home Delivered 67
Chapter 35 Neonatal Antics…LCD Dreams 69
Chapter 36 Gaming...Daily Kicking the Invisible Football Amidst Us 71
Chapter 37 A Mound of Honey Tipped Neurocortices 73
Chapter 38 A Lot to Weave, Figure Out, Juggle 75
Chapter 39 Anatomy and Physiology of Relationships 77
Chapter 40 The Decision Tree 79
Chapter 41 An Ole Crone, Grizzled and Rawboned 81
Chapter 42 Letting You Into our Whirlwind 83
Chapter 43 Really, a Whoooowhoooooowhooooooo am i Time, it has Been 85
Chapter 44 Separating the Mind from its Silicon Chips 87
Chapter 45 Network Topology of the Narrative 89
Chapter 46 From a Death Ravine 91
Chapter 47 To Life Divine 93
Chapter 48 Buying and Selling Cons in a Global Market 95
Chapter 49 A Story about the Birth of One 97
Chapter 50 Words and Ideas 99
Chapter 51 Smashed to Smithereens...Picking up Memory Fragments 101
Chapter 52 Like Fruit Bats in the Moonlight Gleaming 103
Chapter 53 A Fragmented Con in Small Things 105
Chapter 54 Identifying and Plucking Leaves in the Evidence Jungle 107
Chapter 55 Principles of External-Internal Medicine 109
Chapter 56 Add-Ons to Consciousness 111
Chapter 57 A Mediaeval Specialty Clinic 113
Chapter 58 The Medical Grocery Shop 115
Chapter 59 Quest for Chemical Individuality 117
Chapter 60 Listening to Patients and Teachers Alike 119
Chapter 61 A Young Alcoholic Cirrhotic 121
Chapter 62 Bedside Troubleshooting: A Systems Approach 123
Chapter 63 Summarizing Livers and Rivers Within 125
Chapter 64 Discussing the Whole 127
Chapter 65 The Pump that Runs our Rivers 129
Chapter 66 Behind a Failing Pump: The Ailing Person 131
Chapter 67 System Trouble: A Yellowed Display Virus 133
Chapter 68 The Inoculated System 135
Chapter 69 The Letter from a Virus 1-5 137
Chapter 70 Hunger for Food and Air 143
Chapter 71 Airways Opening into System-Rivers 145
Chapter 72 Moving Muscles and Stories 147
Chapter 73 Possibilities Jumping and Quivering 149
Chapter 74 Seems as if it was just the Other Day 151
Chapter 75 Like a Whiff of Rain Swept Earth 153
Chapter 76 Eeeeek, or Should it be Mmmmmmmmmmf...I Sniff Some Pain,
A Deep Breath or Two 155
Chapter 77 House Plants Cruising through Summers Bliss 157
Chapter 78 Piercing Individual Universes 159
Chapter 79 Waiting for the Mountain 161
Chapter 80 Flying in a Magic Carpet 163
Chapter 81 Bird Billions, Beeping Tweeting Whistling with the River-Tunes 165
Chapter 82 The Birding Resident 167
Chapter 83 The Bronchial Tree 169
Chapter 84 Evaluating Mechanical Trouble Shooting Skills 171
Chapter 85 On Failing the Acid Test 173
Chapter 86 Searching...Searching Yellow Eyes 175
Chapter 87 The Train Journey 1-3 177
Chapter 88 On Being a Medical Student 1 181
Chapter 89 On Being a Medical Student 2 183
Chapter 90 Macchapucchare College of Medicine 185
Chapter 91 Settling Down to a New Dream 187
Chapter 92 The Story of Glomerular Injury 1-7 189
Chapter 93 Going Up and Down Tops and Bottoms 199
Chapter 94 Fever Bugs in System-Rivers 201
Chapter 95 The Cranky Irritable Bowel 203
Chapter 96 A Dysfunctional Dyspeptic Stomach 205
Chapter 97 Setting Gas Purely Unconditionally Free 207
Chapter 98 A Blackening Lady 209
Chapter 99 A Web Based Doctor Patient Relationship 211
Chapter 100 All Humans are Born Physicians 215
Chapter 101 A Disc Full of Love 217
Chapter 102 Yours Sneeringly, Cheerio, Cornflakes, Grits 219
Chapter 103 Yes! I Do. 221
Chapter 104 The Last Honeymoon with the Mountains 223
Chapter 105 Regardless, We Continue...New or Renewed Track 225
Chapter 106 Also Saw a Bit of the Himalayas 227
Chapter 107 Fly to Kolkata then Fry 229
Chapter 108 Conversations with a Mountain 231
Chapter 109 Becoming the Mountain 233
Chapter 110 The Poor Old Rich Man 235
Chapter 111 An Oncogene Named Desire 237
Chapter 112 A Global Malignancy 239
Chapter 113 A Bad Dream 241
Chapter 114 Trees: Like Receptors in our Body 243
Chapter 115 Apoptosis: Perishing Great Civilizations 245
Chapter 116 Cremation-Incinerating Junk 247
Epilogue 249
Acknowledgements 251
References 253
Preface
Present trend in computer ontology is toward the development of artificial intelligence and human ontology is an intervention to positively support it with natural human intelligence such that it is infused with the pluralism that characterizes human social structures.
This book plans to make a beginning toward that end utilizing a meta-narrative that examines the life of an academically failed physician and his relatively academically successful daughter. The short individual narrative beads that are threaded into this larger narrative represent a multi genre science and fantasy of medicine. On one hand it balances a postmodern stance with its incredulity toward absolute evidence based truth on the other a tolerant pluralism that simply recognizes all approaches as credible as long as the resultant is geared toward positive outcomes.
The book portrays a non-linear narrative ontology interspersed in linear discourses on its relevance to human cognition and ontology. It creates a fictional conceptual model of a human that is visualized in physical form analogous to a notebook computer that hides an infinite backend process of cognition analogous to the human mind driven by its consciousness.
This particular backend entity is labeled con (shortened from a consciousness that is universal to all humans and other sentient life also sometimes represented simply as being) and is fictionally endowed with powers that enable it to run on multiple notebook computers (analogous or metaphorically morphologically indistinguishable from humans). This helps the meta-narrative to explore human cognition and its physical manifestations in an Earthly plain.
The story line begins with Con taking the plunge with his notebook June into an Earthy material life. A plunge that makes him fall through life and is bound to end in death. Death smashes his notebook’s hard disc into tiny bits and pieces. The nonlinear narrative as a result tries to pick up these broken fragments of memory and brings out Con’s journey through the human body (in its tree like statistical self-similarity with the Earth and the universe, which may be represented in an atom). It portrays microcosmic interactions inside the human body at a macrocosmic level of day to day living on an Earthy scale.
Con becomes well versed with the anatomy and circuitry of the various intricate components of his machine but also realizes that it has developed in an evolving assembly line whose creators are long dead and nobody till date understands perfectly how the damn thing works. However there are theories, stories of atoms and molecules and their subatomic families regularly utilized to explain how semi conductor chips work inside our bodies. Throughout the ages, stories take on multicolored hues, theories on the nature of Con, Earth and self-evolving machines…the science is ever changing.
To all the dead bodies who taught us anatomy
To all our patients who taught us medicine
To all systems that need trouble shooting
Living or non living, sleek, shining, functional or worn, withered and junked
Sutra
We believe that the cognitive sciences have reached a situation in which they have been frozen into one narrow form by the machine metaphor. There is a need to thaw that form and move from a reductionist, atemporal, disembodied, static, rationalist, emotion and culture-free view, to fundamentally richer understandings that include the primacy of action, intention, emotion, culture, real-time con straints, real-world opportunities, and the peculiarities of living bodies.
Walter J. Free man and Rafael Núñez
Restoring to Cognition the Forgotten Primacy of Action, Intention and Emotion,
Imprint Academic 1999.
'You are not your body, but the witness, the consciousness of the body. Not
any of your thoughts or feelings but the witness, the
consciousness of your thoughts and feelings. '
--Line from, “The Mandukya Upanishad”.
The Upanishads (translated by Swami Prabhananda 1970). Hollywood, Calif.:
Vedanta Press. 1978.
Introduction
What on Earth is Human Ontology?
The traditional goal of ontological inquiry is to divide the world "at its joints," to discover those fundamental categories or kinds that define the objects of the world. (IDEF5 methods report 1994). What ontology has in common with both computer science and philosophy is the representation of entities, ideas, and events, along with their properties and relations and the rules that govern them, according to a system of categories. (“Ontology-computer science”, 2007) An often-quoted definition of ontology in computer science is that it is an explicit specification of a conceptualization restricted to different domains. (Gruber 1993).
For example if one has to write an ontology of driving a car it would involve representation and retrieval of data specifying certain concepts related to controlling the wheel, clutch, brake as well as concepts of objects such as road on which the car needs to be driven and characters such as trees, other cars and people that need to be avoided.
In human ontology, the ontologic domain is existence itself and for an individual sustaining that existence his/her personal ontology is his/her personal conceptualization (although rarely explicitly specified and this is where the similarity to computer ontology ends) of the roadmap he would need to drive himself through that existence and the objects s/he would meet on that road that s/he would need to know how to deal with. A computer ontology program for car driving may not actually drive a car unless connected to a robotic system but would likely be able to answer queries on car driving. In most humans substantial portion of the knowledge on car driving may however remain tacit where the body may know how much pressure to exert on the accelerator to attain a certain speed but for the individual may become difficult to tell. Instances where explicit specifications of conceptualizations are difficult to attain simulate real world human interactions where substantial outcomes are achieved in a tacit manner. (Biswas 2008)
Human ontology (a product of natural evolution) unlike computer ontology (artificially created by humans) is a remarkably heterogeneous cognitive phenomenon varying widely from human to human depending on genetic and environmental factors. It is a less explicit specification of individual concepts so much so that the term human ontology is a contradiction (unless it is just used to label neutral specifications for understanding human anatomy with an aim of building the healthcare framework around it). Admittedly the validity of claims labeling human creations as artificial is also debatable.
Yet humans do share cognitive constructs utilizing natural language that are expressed or stored as representations of entities, ideas, and events, along with their properties and relations and the rules that govern them, according to a system of categories (this is again what ontology is about although in humans it may not be explicitly stated as for computers).
Other contemporary views from authors such as Peter Wilberg deny human ontology as a cognitive process at all. Wilberg maintains that the inner human being cannot be reduced to a set of bodily processes or cognitive behaviours. The inner human being is not some bodily ‘thing’ at all but ‘some-one’: a being. According to Wilberg, human ontology creates a fundamental distinction between the human body and mind on the one hand, and the inner human being on the other. (Wilberg 2007)
Health as a personal experience is an individual phenomenon – patients understand and experience their health in the context of their social networks. People and events simultaneously make up these networks; structurally they are interconnected and functionally interrelated – and as such interdependent. (Bar-Yam 1997)
Over time individual patients therefore build their unique conceptual models of their health and illness in the context of their experiences and everyday social interactions. Equally health professionals develop their main constructs of health and disease from the collective interactions with their colleagues in medical institutions. Frequently these constructs are devoid of the ‘white noise’ generated by the personal realities of patients, caregivers and other professionals.
These personal individual views form the basis for the socio-cultural construct of health, illness and disease, and the culture of the health care system – these understandings are learnt, internalized and enacted. As Berger and Luckmann (1966) point out persons and groups interacting together in a social system, form over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions, and these concepts eventually become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to each other.
This book illustrates the dynamic interactions between individual human ontologies utilizing multiple beads of individual narratives threaded into a meta-narrative in the background of healthcare and illness.
References
Bar-Yam, Y. Dynamics of Complex Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Berger, P. L. and T. Luckmann (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
Gruber, T. R. (1993). A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications. Knowledge Acquisition, 5(2), 199-220.
IDEF5 method report (1994) Retrieved Oct 7th 2007 from http://www.idef.com/pdf/Idef5.pdf.
Wilberg, P. Human Ontology or human genomics. Downloaded from http://heidegger.org.uk/hum_ont_hum_gen.pdf.
Ontology-computer science. (2007, Aug 12). In Wikipedia Retrieved oct 7th 2007 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29.
Biswas, R, Martin, C.M., Sturmberg, J., Mukherji, K., Lee, E.W.H., Umakanth, S., and Kasthuri, A.S. (2008). Social cognitive ontology and user driven healthcare, Hatzipanagos, S. and Warburton, S. (Eds.), Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, IGI Global Publishing (Feb 2009).
The Conscious Notebook
All works of fiction draw on real life data and the present work is no exception. The data has been meticulously distorted substantially to remove all possible real life links. Any resemblance to a real life person would be purely coincidental.
Reading tips for the diligent but gullible reader
The trick in this book is not to be diligently linear as this is a very non-linear narrative built within the framework of a scale-free network with the sections on the medical student and her father as the major hubs. You could start with the last chapter and even end somewhere in the middle if you want to but be sure to turn it rapidly and smell the ink (that is if you are reading a paper version) or just eye the contents (not on the table of contents) scrolling down slowly till you feel like reading the italicized quotes (if you are on your electronic version).
Consider a social network in which nodes are people and links are acquaintance relationships between people. It is easy to see that people tend to form communities, i.e., small groups in which everyone knows everyone. In addition, the members of a community also have a few acquaintance relationships to people outside that community. Some people, however, are so related to other people (e.g., celebrities, politicians) that they are connected to a large number of communities. Those people may be considered the hubs responsible for the small world phenomenon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network
Prologue
Who Wants to Join the Dance?
I don’t know where the audience for this sort of a narrative collection or assortment lurks at the moment unless they are reading this but then why would anyone want to read it is the question that I must first try to answer. Also in my role of the prologue deity I guess I need to explain why they might consider sitting through the entire assortment of narratives.
I don’t think I have to go further back in history than the cave men to search for this. Those were the good old days when primordial genes were discovering the joys of finding new expression in variety of human bodies that were beginning to work and think differently. Like one poor cave man would often be chided by his partner for not being able to pluck that bright red flower from the topmost branch of that tall tree, her friend’s partner (called husband in the middle ages) having beat him to it.
So he would begin to think of obtaining the flower by offering to trade that neat piece of stone he has shaped into a sharp and a sort of business is born. This goes on for centuries until it’s centralized into a governable currency and the modern market is born with the same underlying theme. Information as a commodity enters the market with the advent of the printing press and is presently threatening to leave with the advent of a world wide spidery market place.
I believe the biggest return for any information monger is information itself. It may in the beginning seem a bit like flattery (when someone conveys their gratitude for the information you presented) but eventually settles down to becoming an interesting exchange where both interacting poles gain more and more information.
Now, if one settles instead for getting rewarded in the form of a certain green kind of purchasing power then one simply manages to tire/burn oneself out. After all how much can you gorge with that puny body? In such situations the only hope of salvation is to open the floodgates of charity (albeit in a controlled manner) and achieve that equilibrium one strived and managed to lose in youth.
The real market lies in our hearts where, in the light of the full moon, one can dance to the tunes of a cowherd’s flute, lilting the spirits of the jungle. The real buyer is one who can join the dance. In the end I must warn you, you are going to see more of the prologue deity barging in quite often in between the narrative.
Chapter 1
Introducing Darkness
Your article says, “Something out there holds swarms of galaxies together and keeps their stars from falling apart, but scientists still haven’t learnt what this invisible substance is.” Although I am familiar with many of the names of God, this is the first time I have heard Him called Dark Matter.
Clyde A. Bachelor
Letter to National Geographic, September 2005
What you see in front of you is not just darkness. It’s like you have no sight. Now imagine you aren’t hearing me either. There’s no sound except a soft drone, which drifts out from a deep black hole from time to time. Well… in such instances you might feel the soft rustle of air around or the saliva at the back of your tongue or become aware of the perfume your neighbor’s put on but lets think that you aren’t able to feel all this either…there’s just space, no atmosphere to speak of, no stars coming out, no taste or touch, none of the five senses at all. Our story begins right here where time stands still…no sound of my talking, no pin dropping only a drone which sounds vaguely like aum…hmmmmmmmmmm.
Welcome to the black hole of Nirvana…universal consciousness. I know it’s boring to be bereft of the senses especially when you know there’s a thriving world full of revelers right in this black hole, who are like ordinary human beings talking, listening, jostling, tickling each other, enjoying their beers, having sex, in short having a real good time. Another thirty seconds of silence in this heart of darkness and you will understand the predicament of Con, the hero of our story. He’s been holed up here since Con only knows what time…ages maybe but then again time here stands still…as if waiting.
Cons are actually ordinary people who had eaten the forbidden fruit on Earth. They wanted badly to merge into the main stream of universal consciousness, they also wanted peace and there was only one way out for them…unplug all sensory inputs from their system…with each and every bite on the apple, cut off all desires and reach the state in which all of you are now, if not for my incessant yapping. I shall stop here and leave you with nirvana for company just another 30 seconds…give you the feeling of what it’s like to be Con (alias God)…poor God.
Tamas or Darkness in physical nature finds expression as gravity and inertial mass. In human nature it is felt essentially as a downward-pulling sense of inertia and heaviness. People search to compensate for Tamasic existence either through Rajas - hyperactivity and consumerism or mindless entertainment or through bland Sattvic states of spiritual harmony, peace and calm.
Peter Wilberg
The Gunas, 2007
Chapter 2
Once the Threads are Set…Must Continue
to Weave
All authors build on their own lives to tell their stories. They use their real life as an introduction to the characters and then sit back and watch their characters emerge with a life of their own. All this is done as part of this unique thought experiment called novel.
Sutra
A note from Sutra:
I am not to be mistaken for the author himself. The author to relate his story is using me. My Bengali name is Sutra Dhar, which doesn’t necessarily mean storyteller but someone who threads and weaves a story. The things, which I relate, may happen in the real, the author’s world and the imaginary, reel…my world. I am a bridge between the two worlds. The picture in front of you shows a man crossing the street. He’s not the author or myself or even the sponsor for our story. He’s an ordinary nameless human, the focus of our story.
He is an ordinary man who’s weirdly fascinated by the ordinary people living around him in an extraordinary world. He revels in the stories churned out by their interactions with each other and the macro-microcosmic environment. He gorges on them daily as if they were a staple item in his daily diet of thought. I may not be the only storyteller on whom the author has bestowed sole right to voice his stories. There are others from the author’s world of ordinary people. You might wonder whether they are people at all. You might get to hear stories related by a virus, a red blood corpuscle or even a protein molecule masquerading as a snake or squirrel. Sometimes you might hear the lord almighty talking to you.
Paradigms are fires lit by tiny sparks of individual thoughts that brighten up our worlds as a celebration and transform incendiary individuals into overnight life long celebrities. Society needs these glowing fires from its brightest stars to function effectively in a galactic space that is otherwise bereft of color and air in a back drop of intense all encompassing darkness—
Dhar S,
The influence of dominant paradigms in social functioning
(unpublished-retrieved from the dustbin folder).
Chapter 3
Story of Samsara
To come back again to the beginning of time, even before the sperm comet hit our ovum planet, let’s take a look at the source of our comet and planet. After all, the universe is just a collection of narrative matter strung together by time. –
Sutra
Samsara, which means the universe, is only one of the characters in this story. He wasn’t always bad in academics; in fact one should say he excelled in them. On leaving school, he managed to sail into the best technological institutes in the country, all because he had a way with mathematics. Numbers talked to him. They pulled at his hair, splashed water on him and teased him often sending him into frenzy…more so when he was presented with a problem, which was difficult and impossible for the average student.
It was off course rare to find him tied down to problems, which he always liked to call challenges, as he would have solved most of them in a jiffy. Unfortunately he also bagged at the same time a seat in medical school as his aggregate in physics and chemistry gave him an edge even if his biology was just passable. His parents decided that as his elder brother was an engineer he had to be a doctor.
His medical student days were spent in rigorous studies but recurrent failures. He wasn’t actually studying the subjects’ medical school demanded but almost everything else, which included lengthy tomes on theoretical physics, combinatorial chemistry and non-linear dynamics. He took a number of years more than the average medical graduate to pass his finals and barely managed to finish his internship. Most of his batch mates had long finished their residencies and fellowships becoming busy assistant professors of Cardiology, Gastroenterology and the like in prestigious universities. His school-mates way behind his mathematical abilities who had nevertheless got into engineering now held important positions in high tech academic institutes as well as the corporate sector.
His parents had by now realized their mistake and come to terms with the fact that their son wouldn’t after all become a medical man even if he’d managed to scrape through medical school. They hoped he’d take up a government medical officer’s job. His cousin was doing well earning hefty bribes signing false post mortem reports. He had already built a bungalow, bought a car.
However Samsara Sen. was made of different fiber. He believed in following his bliss. He had toyed with the idea of appearing again for the technological Institutes entrance exams during his med school days but somehow was then too absorbed with theoretical physics to even bother about a career in engineering. He believed his bliss lay in talking to his beloved numbers…Listening all day to the melodious chatter of mathematics.
What drives us to learn? Is it our jest for reward in the form of feel good food for thought? We learn anything for these food for thought rewards and like animals in a circus seem to be constantly foraging for it.
Sutra
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