To Kill The Mocking AI Octopus

This article reiterates warnings by leading Scientists advocating heightened AI awareness across all STRATAS OF CITIZENS. For far too long governments across South Asia & Latin America have allowed discretion to be the better part of valor. Whilst China’s Ruling elite has bent over backwards to integrate communities, its leaders are today allegedly having a “Soul Problem”! Indian Ruling Elites since 1947 have clearly preferred self-aggrandizement to Man-Making. The pretentious Indus Water Treaty, the Preferment of China to the UN Security Council in lieu of India are two of many Himalayan Blunders. At micro-levels daily newspaper reports erratic social behavior, indicating mothers losing nature endowed spontaneous competence over children. Morally & ethically communities appear to be disintegrating as AI ascends. The main problem is our primitive minds. Unlike us, AI is driven by raw Intelligence.

Introduction

There are two pivotal sides in our 21^st Century life.  I specifically refer to lives of ordinary folks of ordinary families with extraordinary aspirations like you &me. On the one hand we are spending lifetime to improve our circumstances-income, skills and abilities to forecast the future. This is all good stuff worthy of our attention. But on the other hand, there is an almost complete lack of focus away from managing our expectations with the same intensity we manage our life-circumstances. And with rising expectations, nothing really gets better. Either we are ‘unconscious’ of our mental depravity or we happily live in a simulated World. Such choice is ominous.

This Article is written in the background of apparent hidden or clear as crystal agendas in the Global Tariff Wars, the Ukraine War etc. However, it articulates our Main Enemy is the agenda of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-its negative forces behind this rabid Awesome AI “Persona”? Lack of control over management of our expectations has enabled AI to take deceptive control over average human’s bounded rationality: decision making and risk management. It is challenging to accept human thoughts, emotions and activities at global, community and individual levels are no longer in direct control. Till end of the 20^th Century this remained almost unaffected. But the 21^st Century dynamics have propelled AI center-stage, entering our present and influence the menacing future. Neural Networks-machine, learning models created by our Scientists, are fine-tuned with interconnected nodes (artificial neurons), processing data & learning patterns. Mimic of brain functions resolving complex problems are materializing. In fact, the discoveries of 2024 Nobel Prize awardees in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine are deeply inter-connected making AI penetrate deeper into…Human Intelligence is merging with AI is no longer fiction.

In April 2025 It was strangely fascinating for me to read interviews by these same 2024 Noble Awardees voicing apprehensions that ‘humans are not as logical as previously assumed’; that ‘human beings are unpredictable’(!). Is it time then to be reflectively cautious? The belief about a future outcome based on our current ‘profligate’ behaviors (expectations) becoming true is very scary. By deductive logic the model of ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ merges with current rising expectations influencing ostentatious (both conscious & unconscious) human behaviors. With AI taking command over life-styles and expectations sky-rocketing across so-called ‘better-quality’ domains, this article is a reminder we should not take caution to the winds.

Dark Implications off the 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine

The Prizes were awarded justifiably for seminal contributions in:

1. Physics: Reconstructing neural data patterns- identifying, storing & reconstructing images & other pattern types in data ( Hopfield); & autonomously finding properties in data and performing tasks like identifying specific elements in pictures, other data properties (Dr. Hinton) –
2. Chemistry- Developing computational protein designs: methods to create entirely new kinds of proteins with novel functions ( Baker); using AI to develop AlphaFold2models that can predict protein structure from their amino acid sequences (Drs. Demis Hassabis & John Jumper)
3. Medicine (Physiology): Discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation ( Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun)-

The beauty of the above inter-connected discoveries is altogether they are poised to alter human anatomical functions beyond imaginations. And they will replace human intelligence. For ordinary mortals with extraordinary aspirations it is sufficient to understand even more paradigm advancements are to happen across this accelerated this ‘local world’ time zone. The work in Physics (neural patterns) leads to applications in Chemistry (protein structures). Our understanding of fundamental Biological processes (microRNA) enables the development of powerful AI tools (Artificial Neural Networks and Protein structure). And all discoveries put together enable seamless replacement of the human brain & cell frames.

How much the common man’s understanding of the natural world will increase and improve with these discoveries across disintegrating community activities remains a mystery to me. If our world had 3 & not 8 billion humans, the Supply Chain Management could have reached out…But definitely the unpredictable powers that control geo-politics @macro control society will find vicious & not virtuous ways and means. Push is now a shove.

According to Futurologist Scientist Dr. Ray Kurzweil (felicitated by at least 4 American Presidents in late 20^th Century), mankind is very much on the sacred trip of SINGULARITY…when Humans transcend Biology.[i] Around 2005 Dr. Kurzweil, the father figure among all Futurology Scientists, explained WHY Technology and Human Intelligence are slowly merging through AI. He has soundly predicted by the end of 21^st Century all matter & energy in the Universe shall be saturated with Intelligent Processes & Knowledge. In his 2005 book, he has tracked the 6 Stages of EVOLUTION beginning trillions of years ago on Planet Earth. As ordinary mortals, dissuaded by circumstances for becoming better workers, citizens and humans, our information systems do not explain such mind-boggling facts. Is it time we do? Dr. Kurzweil has meticulously sewn facts of applied physics, chemistry and biology (Evolutionary Biology) to explain Evolution has always worked through indirection. It has created a capability; then used that capability to evolve to the next phase of Evolution. I believe “AI eclipsing HI” is reality. There is no ‘artificiality’ with AI. It is the New Normal and we must accept it. His 2025 book confirms Humans are merging with AI (refer End Notes). As for me I veer to agree with Elon Musk with his very powerful Star-Trek type observation “There is a 99.9999% Truth humanity is a computer simulation”. We live in abject delusion. But our unpretentious Scientists and the powers that fund their R&Ds (with noble prizes as bonus) definitely know better.

A Historical Perspective

For the intrepid reader, today Time has stopped. We need understand the nature of evolution& civilization over trillions of years. History is a story-telling exercise that arouses curiosity. It shows Instinct and Environment conditioning behavior across different epochs. And behavior originates with perception & cognition by relatively evolving human brain-which also evolves with Time. Today, however, AI is in the driver’s seat.

Contextually, it is instructive to understand origin of the Reptilian, Limbic and Neo-Cortex Brains in humans. The Reptilian brain formed 400 million years ago (also known as the brainstem) is the oldest, controlling basic survival functions; the Limbic brain formed 100 million years ago is responsible for emotions and social behavior; and that part of our NEO-CORTEX brain responsible for higher-level thinking and complex problem-solving, formed only 4 million years ago (also known as the frontal neocortex). They are part of evolutionary processes. And Scientists began exploring human brains since 1906. In the same manner that the Earth’s rotation is slowing due to the Moon moving away from Earth orbit, Tectonic plates shifting, our Body Organs changing cells every 5 years…issues we just “don’t care”.

Like the mountains, rivers, continents and foliage, humans are have had slow but sure evolutionary brain changes. Human Intelligence is not at par with AI. Freethinkers will swiftly understand unintelligent, barbaric and refined Humans never dropped from the skies from time to time. And neither has the AI. With evolving Consciousness Homo Sapiens have augmented brain components with proportional survival tactics. And this evolutionary transition has always been subject to the relative environment (epigenetics) created by the rulers. Higher-level thinking and complex problem-solving among humans is a comparatively recent developmental phenomenon. Our neo-cortex intelligence is still evolving which is why we are not yet in full alignment TO comprehend magnitude of AI influence on our lives & living.[ii] Thus the discovery of AI & interlocutory discoveries  aforesaid are adding fuel to the fire of extinction. And as AI will be controlled by Brute Forces, extinction will be expedited. Survival of the fittest-simple!

So, across trillions of years, as life sustained/improved under homeostasis[iii] (adjustment/adaptation between body and our evolving planetary temperature), the human brain slowly but surely augmented its Reptilian & Limbic brain functions that exhibited survival/emotional specific behaviors. But even as more encouraging community environment emerged much, much later, the Neo-Cortex (intelligence) brain remained undeveloped or under-developing. Socrates, Aristotle, Plato were exceptions that were too few and far between for their contemporary ordinary citizen’s comprehension. The Buddha, unlike Christ, had a longer life-span and he travelled wider as did his disciples. Thus the human civilization in Asia has had several centuries of Buddhism in Asia. These thrived amidst trade & commerce with minimal wars but maximum Man-Making overtures.

However, Barbarian nomadic pursuits by Reptilian breeds of our own ilk gave rise to violent Moslem plunder (which raises its fangs even now in terrorist attacks). These impacted Asian and European lives no end. The Industrial Revolution in Europe & rise of Colonialism followed. Man-Breaking carnage ensured reduced human standards, increasing exploitation amidst disturbing perception/cognition @micro human levels. Such disruptive carnage continued much after WWII even as Science & Technology accelerated.

Thus Human Society today is actually really an output of disrupted inter-related families & micro-communities from wars, economic disorder, migrations/partitions. We are 8 billion cringing humans in a tainted macro-global community. Is this a form of “digital arrest”? Managing expectations and challenging circumstances across history have ruptured our civilization in 2025. The wise among us modern Indians (B.R. Ambedkar & Abdul Kalam by way of few examples) have always given timeless wisdom on greed, fear, risk, jealousy & shortsightedness. But the immense majority of us fools have done just the opposite. 18th Century writer, philosopher Voltaire had observed: “history never repeats itself”. Only humans have always had this proud privilege. In 21^st Century, intensified Digital Revolution is profoundly inducing a civilizational hara-kiri!

It may become clearer why those “good old days” around 550 BCE till well into the 1st millennium CE (Anno Domini), South Asian India dominated whole of Asia including China. This happened without waging any plundering Wars & genocide. Those Sub-continental peoples (immensely different from what species we have degenerated into in 2025) were governed by benign ruling classes with deep rooted socio-economic values that did not require a Constitution with imprinted Directive Principles and Fundamental Rights. Social communities were functional under checks & balances within purposeful unrestricted hubs. The eco-system inspired & motivated higher-level thinking under acceptable distributive justice. Not that everything was honky-dory either but definitely not in a logjam.

The Industrial Revolution complicated human behaviors. There has been a slow but distinct fissure between chronological and psychological ages of humans across the past few centuries. Technological and current Digital complexities have raised expectations sky-high. Before the Industrial Revolution society was somewhat integrated where surfacing instinct under evolving environment shaped to “control” human behaviors. Across these panorama humans emerged as definitely the cruelest animal on planet earth.

Whereas yesterday’s world was driven by greed; it was certainly not driven by today’s rampant envy. 21^st Century socio-economic behavior rotates around generating wealth, the ability to show-off wealth & nurture greater envy for other peoples’ wealth. Everyone, from drivers to care-givers (domestic helps), indulge in forms of SIPs and Poker Bazi.  Additionally, we are directly or indirectly under lumpen control at community levels. There is little distributive justice except across ornamental discussions. The police, mandated protectors of life & property, often are grave-diggers. To add fuel to fire, Artificial Intelligence has emerged as part savior, part Frankenstein. (I sometimes have wondered if by natural evolution humans could not speak, would Technology have arrived at this Catch 22 situation?)

Are we then “locals” in a self-defeating minimally comprehensible simulated matrix? Courtesy few Futurologists, Scientists and Astrophysicists (e.g. Dr. Deepak Chopra) an emerging New Idea is emitting signals. It suggests we view life as “non-locals” in this world. We will understand the Absolute Reality better. We may develop more balanced perspective of the ‘individual soul’, reconciling that physical manifestations are ever changing. As we race toward extinction, this may be a Way Forward! Realizing the Universal form of Nature dwells in the heart of every living soul is a worthy manifestation to nurture. Tomorrow may be too late…it’s now or never…!

The Importance of EPIGENTETICS & PSYCHOLOGY-[iv]–

It is in this context Epigenetics and Psychology have significant relevance in human behavior. By “we” I exclude the intellectual classes because they have self-inflicted systemic brain “damages” with spasmodic “healings” in proportion with their “movements and coordination”. But I include all parents and anguished humans surviving in this vicious socio-economic life-cycle. And I also welcome with open arms into this “sizzling discussion all “tainted” and “untainted” teachers, assistant engineers, junior tradesmen, conductors and drivers, the western equivalent of “jobless”. (These positions were recently mentioned by India’s Supreme Court on 24th April 2025 when it again heard cash-for-jobs related scams involving a Southern State Government Ministers/officials of India). This is why I maintain we cannot propagate the fallacy that our governments never work. History has been grossly unkind in not teaching us citizens we have failed to install “planet conscious” governments @micro and macro levels.  The fault is not in our Stars. The fault actually lies deep within in mismanagement of environment & failure to learn from experiences. Everything is linked to BRAIN FUNCTIONS.

EPIGENTETICS & PSYCHOLOGY are twigs of behavioral studies, exploring how environment and behavior influence animal (human) gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence. Research & Developments affirm how “nurture” (i.e. environment and experience) impact “nature” (i.e. genetics). Children are almost always under unique forms of early life stress & mental health with addiction or spatial working memory etc. linked to diet and disease. Environmental damages have been present across times immemorial impacting birth and death rates. Given newer AI linked discoveries human lives are bound to transform unimaginably into this New Normal.

Cognitive Neuroscience has changed the definition of what it is to be human. In this era of “AI eclipsing HI” we are witnessing behavioral transgressions but incapable of fully absorbing the magnitude with our own mental gridlocks & plugged loopholes. The protagonists of AI ascent affirming “Singularity is nearer-when humans merge with AI” are actually challenging us dullards to rise to this inevitability. But we remain in suspended animation. We demonstrate unhurried control styles. Easy-going Self-governance is indicative of lack of foresight.

Science and Technology has now discovered human alternative. There is no ethics involved here; just as there was none involved in the Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine and other internecine fratricidal Wars. It is power of the mighty. The AI alternative must be taken as terrific news comparable to when, on 3^rd December 1967, the kind South African Doctor Christiaan Barnard performed the 1^st human heart-to-heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. AI requires skillful management. We are verily on the path of an emergent Singularity.

HEED WORDS OF CAUTION from 2024 Noble Prize Winners

By deductive logic, our children aged 5 to 21 years (almost 33% of 8 billion on populations), will continue with mental/physical adjustment/abhorrence to the rumblings of “better” changes. As parents and Teachers (47% of global populations) it is only appropriate that we heed the caution of our Scientists. But we are now immune to even considering each child as a 20-year Project management exercise. We can no longer understand people or re-learn value of empathy IN these fewer years left as members of A race en route to extinction. For good or bad, we should listen Prof. Hinton’s advice in a very recent April 25 interview podcast shared by India Today (very kindly open this link hereunder): –

(https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-says-humans-are-not-as-rational-or-logical-as-we-thought-2713346-2025-04-23 ) [v]

The huge crowd-pulling IPL Cricket Matches in colossal stadiums across the country energize me with the gay abundance of raw energy. So much can be extracted from humans with empathy. This same gay abundance of energy and spontaneity is witnessed across stadiums in Leeds, Madrid, New York, Buenos Aires, Rome. But the 2028 LA Olympics will be somewhat different with its immersive experiences. AI shall be conducting the total Olympic paraphernalia as maintenance staff without any human component in the services.

Can we still assume human brains make us inevitably the most intelligent species? The caution of Scientists is wake-up call that political leaders since WWII should have taken on. All humans suffer from infinite stupidity. For decades we have taught our young the wrong priorities. We never introduced contemporary brain-based, incremental applicable insights into robotic technology from KG to PG. Instead political parties have fought strange debates to outsmart one another whilst always agreeing every 5years to increase their own salaries and allowances & distributing inconsequential ‘subsidies’ to the electorate. The Theatres of the Absurd are happening all over with little scope in triggering the intelligence of citizens for community welfare. We have wrought upon ourselves our extinction with AI coercing us to merge with matter and energy on its terms. It is a “My Way or Highway”transfixation.

Because of human stupidity & in order to fast-forward swifter changes, Scientists have developed machines to independently identify NEURAL patterns & features in data to make equipment intelligent. They have connected the dots and dashes with artificial neural networks where 2+2 becomes 6! But there is a distinct possibility jobless youth will be systematically forced into experimental laboratories. Prof. Hinton has already observed little research on AI safety measures being undertaken by Google& others.  Despite the “all-informative” social media, we are incapable to adequately filter relevant information such as the ones being shared in this article. Why should we? We indulge in toxic searches that enhance cheaper thrills killing entrepreneurships!  The recurring wars, depleting soil erosion & water shortage, retarded health and education systems are retarding. Additionally, in the gallant Disaster Management Action Plans of Governments, the feelings for the world citizens are missing. Empathy is disappearing among humans. But hang-on! -AI will provide superannuated Empathy for planet earth.

Such is the agonizing ever-widening gap-analysis in our “as-is: to-be” Existential Pyramid.  We have gone beyond redemption as a race. Perhaps the summated curses of all other life-forms/species we have driven to extinction is rearing its head at this moment of history!

The present Central Government in India has sufficient wherewithal and intelligence &a rich historical legacy tracing back centuries to revive a Master Plan within Research Centers in at least 36 of the 800 Districts among the 28 States and 8 Union Territories of India. Perhaps they have done so already. Can India live up to her reputed historical legacy of empathy and “Vasudhaivaa Kurtumbakam”? -The World is one Family? Is there fair time to emphasize the interconnectedness of humanity…that unity and cooperation only matter! But it is too late because the mantle of leadership has long shifted from India. The Himalayan Blunders I mentioned in the abstract confirm how Indian leadership failed to use their intelligence that the Chinese grabbed and built assiduously since the 1950s.

Epigenetics & Psychology justify the erratic behaviors we see, hear and experience around us in families & communities. Governments, Parents and Teachers have ignored this weakness at their own peril for two reasons. First they have been irrational. Secondly, it never mattered to them. They have refined democratic plunder & loot of Earth Planet Resources. The 2024 Nobel Prize Winners are therefore cautioning not against AI but against humans sustaining the same as ever “have-gun-will-travel” approach

Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Physics Winner (neural sciences & machine learning) and a Godfather of AI, says “our understanding of how the human brain works is going through major changes”. And this, he believes, “will also change the way we understand people and approach the study of human behavior involving the humanities”. Prof. Hinton believes, “there is an urgency with how swiftly the ordinary educated minds across different domains must reorient the way she understands people”. In an interview he explained that “as brain science advances, we are starting to realize humans are not as logical or rational as we have believed for a long time”; that as we develop more understanding of how the brain works, “we’re going to radically change our view of how people work, and that’s going to change the humanities.”

Instead of focusing on the irrelevant and expending on Consumer Goods, TV Advertisements and unintelligent serials that have little rationality, we should begin serious self & community-reflections. We have long lost the Golden Era Pioneers and Prophets of Film Makers on Film Making. In the West we had Eisenstein, Luis Bunuel, Orson Welles, and Jean Cocteau to name a few among many who expressed themselves so affectingly through the medium.[vi] In Bengal (India) we have had film luminaries like Satyajit Ray, Rwitwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. But none of the current movies have adapted this ominous AI ascendancy through a film. No Film Director is pointing accusing fingers at the current non-negotiable & gruesome turbulence mankind is confronting. This by itself reaffirms the highbrows now making films are nuts! We are all nuts purchased by an evolved self-defeating system.

And so we need to also ask many questions. Like what verticals are AI being used by the super-powerful vested interests (pharma, travels, consumer products and armament industries) & the consequences? Are we to be doused in somnolence? And if this is true, can we do anything at all?

Scientists Hinton and Demis Hassabis & others are sharing warnings. They are perhaps doing this as a tacit self-conscious ethical responsibility or in abject amazement@ confronting human stupidity. That the neo-cortex brain of humans would be so under-developed is unimaginable. And now they also know the next few steady steps…

…Extinction

We therefore have a situation. Scientists are explicitly confirming AI can & will take total control from humans. (refer to End Note i).  Are 8 billion humans MAD enough to at all understand the consequences of Humans merging with AI?  Our predicament is equal to taking a tiger cub as a domestic pet. Cautions Prof. Hinton in a 26th April interview with the CBS News: “Unless you can be very sure it’s not gonna kill you when it’s grown up, you should worry. “People have not got it yet because people have not understood what is coming”, said the astute Professor.

Big companies (the successors of those same Brute Forces that Ayn Rand had forewarned!) are already lobbying with governments to get less AI regulation. “There is hardly any regulation as it is. But they want even less” says Hinton. Companies like Google are not at all dedicating maximum investment time to safety research. They are actually prioritizing profits over safety. This is amazing. It is an ethical compulsion to filter issues related to human extinction now…    

Nobel Laureate Hassabis[vii] says that “people in society (not limited to its rulers) are grossly unaware of what is to happen”. This is akin to a new President of China being elected and he alters the total global communication links because the standards are not up to China’s favorable assessments. Disruptive times have come…and given the penchant for living more enjoyably, we must also appreciate the future may be gloomier than we think.  Such somnolence happened earlier altering living standards when even the most erudite human least expected: before dropping of the Atom Bombs on 6th August 1945; with the Tsunami on 26th December 2004 and again the crude blow with Covid-19 from Wuhan in December 2019. So much of what determines our fate is random and hangs from a thread!   

What are the hurdles that our Society is facing?

We have limitations: “humans are not as logical or rational as we have believed for a long time”. Of course the smarter humans have adapted the Smartphone, the Internet etc. using higher cognitive faculties. But 75% of humans have degenerative cognitive capabilities. The emerging New Normal would likely prefer brain-implant or maybe push masses into modern Gulag Archipelagos. We live in embryonic stages of the New Normal in 2025. Quantum Computers have only begun their marvels.[viii]

The tragic plight of over 26,000 ‘tainted’ and ‘untainted’ currently protesting teachers in India’s State of West Bengal is another case in point. They are running from ‘police station to hospital’ owing to the greed of the State Education Department officials and perhaps their own as well? Should push come to a shove within the next few years of accelerated activities, fragile governance systems can no longer depend on the adage “spare the rod and spoil the child”. The ruling dispensation then may have no alternative but to force the futuristic Jobless Indians into IPL Cricket Stadiums “watching & cheering” their cricket idols. Naturally tea and snacks may be provided free of cost to each spectator!  Ascent of the Mocking AI Bird is very inauspicious.

There is this unmasked reality that many of our leaders are manipulated by clusters of business oligarchs across the pharma, oil-natural gas and armament sectors. This hegemony- tyranny of the Oppressors– may not be uprooted by AI should unless Forces of Reason are @ the helm of AI acceleration. Circumstances will change if Brute Forces control AI.  Notwithstanding bland club and coffee house gossip and insipid confabs among Alumni and retired bureaucrats; it is apparent even the BEST epigenetic and neuroscience dynamics CANNOT prompt Human Beings to challenge AI by the 2050s. Unless our governments, led by Forces of Reason,  promote knowledge and remove the things that have never changed-envy, fear and greed (which Morgan Housel explains in his book under reference[ix]).

We are sandwiched in Idiot Boxes with gainful advertisements. Industrialist and Bankers are laughing their ways to the Banks. Sudden Jobless Growth could make our leaders press the panic buttons. Many National Psychiatric Associations are apprehending by 2050 obesity will impact almost 58% of the world population and the other half may be mentally deranged. The branch we are sitting on is partially cut already!

Two Scientists studying the brain from early 2000 till now have made wonderful human brain observations: “The Human Brain is a World consisting of unexplored continents & unknown territory”: S.R. Cajal (1st Nobel Prize-Physiology 1906). “The Brain is the Centre Point of our Future”: Madam MB Moser (Nobel Prize-Physiology 2022)

Ours is a newer version of Chaplin’s “Modern Times”. Long term projections into the 2050s to 2080s are unlikely to influence us. Science and Technology have changed the environment and raised expectations. Palpably, human delusion and not illusion is dominating life-styles and livelihoods. We are conditioned to forget the marvels of our ancestors who attained depth of thinking sans any technology. They used physical and brain efforts. Many Scientists are discovering Consciousness is the matter we need tap …not to ensure benefits but specifically to better understand as individuals (if at all we can) the: “who am I” & “where Am I going” life components.

It is becoming apparent the Deep State will use AI to manipulate 8 billion humans into simulated life-styles that deflect authenticity. Wow-Gulag Archipelagos! A fairy-tale hypnotic trance …Much as Jim Morrison lustfully sang in his epic (stressful) rendition of “This is The End, my friend…The End” (possibly The Doors: Soft Parade?)

There is nothing per-se wrong with strange behavior-with the Jim Morrisons in the 1970s or in 2025. These are outcome of the quantity not quality of relative inputs for community integration. Examples include but are not  limited to the TV serials, motionless legislations that get hooked by appeasing consumerism, a greedy electorate keener on shorter and medium benefits than the long-term, “Newer” versions of repetitive Education Strategy etc. etc. Humans have become bovine by choice.  There is self-defeatism in every ‘top-down’ approach. The ‘bottom-up’ French, Russian, Chinese. Vietnam Revolutions were historical passé…

Conclusion

The more I try to be expressive on AI issues, the more misunderstood I become! When I measure my passion against the behavior of my peer group, I observe disparity in expectations. It is as if everything is “honky-dory”, “life is an adventure-live it”, “don’t worry: just chill”- a glass of beer or red wine will resolve all apprehensions.  I ask myself “have I lost it all? Am I beyond redemption?”

I realized few decades ago the only way to calm this human mind is activation of my own Internal Nervous System. Yoga (breathing) exercises can manage situations clearer under organized protocols. The Brahmini (Humming Bee Pranayama) and Sanmukhi breathing techniques with vibrations, enable looking inwards and activating the Vegus Nerve. In the current paradigm of unimaginable changes, brain relaxation modes offer me that life-line opportunity to revert to my “non-local” senses in this highly cybernetic localized world.

Can we momentarily empathize with Charles Dickens’ “Madame Defarge” character? She surreptitiously knitted by the side of the Guillotine with a 24×7 “same as ever” expression cast over her face…. she struggled to her demise in the ghastly life-and-death struggle with the Victor-Miss Pros. (“The Tale of Two Cities”). Well, we are all dogmatists, conditioned to become less curious and more complacent in 2025…The inexcusable Ruling Classes will never change colors perhaps because the writer and reader of this article are also members of this exclusive bovine group! Miss Pros emerged victorious no doubt but altogether lost her hearing ability due to gunshots so close to her ears. We must also now forfeit something indispensable-our Consciousness!

END NOTES

[i] Ray Kurzweil– “Singularity Is Near-when Humans transcend Biology” (Penguin Books-1^st Published 2005). His book is hailed as “Startling in Scope and bravado” by the NYT. He is also the author of “The Age of Spiritual Machines”. For information of my readers: on Sunday 18^th May 2025 @ 7PM (New York Time) Dr. Kurzweil will be in conversation with David S. Rose (Inc.500 CEO, entrepreneur and angel investor) @92^ND Street Y (92NY) NY, a renowned downtown cultural center of New York. The discussion Topic- “Singularity is Nearer-when we merge with AI”-his new book!   

[ii] S.E.G. Lea: “Instinct, Environment & Behavior” (1984-Methuen &Co, London)- New Essential Psychology for practical purposes

[iii] Swami Ranganathananda Ji (13^th President: Ramakrishna Order): “Man The Known AND Man the Unknown” 2012-Publisher-Sri R.K Math)

[iv] Bruce H Lipton: “Biology of Beliefs” (2010-HAY HOUSE INDIA-1^st Published 2010). Stunning new scientific discoveries about the biochemical effects of brain functioning show all cells of our bodies are affected by our thoughts.

[v] Geoffrey Hinton- One other April 25 Interview: https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-says-humans-are-not-as-rational-or-logical-as-we-thought-2713346-2025-04-23   –WORTH A HEAR

[vi] (Edited by Harry M. Geduld) “Film Makers on Film Making” (Penguin Books 1967) & Satyajit Ray “Our Films-Their Films” (Orient Longmns,1977)

[vii] Demis Hassabis, concurrently Google DeepMind CEO. When asked recently on What Keeps Him Up at Night, he replied: “AGI Is Coming, Society’s Not Ready“.  The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner says AI systems capable of human-level cognitive abilities are only five to ten years away.-https://www.ndtv.com/science/google-deepmind-ceo-on-what-keeps-him-up-at-night-agi-is-coming-societys-not-ready-8245874 WORTH A HEAR

[viii] 26th April ’25 News from Japan– https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/japan-reveals-new-quantum-computer-shattering-limits-4x-power/  –WORTH A HEAR

Fujitsu and RIKEN have announced major breakthrough in quantum computing with the development of a 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer. Fujitsu and RIKEN are not stopping at 256 qubits. Could this development auger well for non-profit, community integration projects? Scientists and Technicians would know better but for a purist non-techie like me it seems AI has already opened the Pandora’s Box. Starting in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, this higher integrating system will be made available to companies and research institutions worldwide.

[ix]Morgan Housel: “Same as Ever- timeless lessons on risk, opportunity and living a good life” (2023-Harriman House Limited).

Partho Sarothy Sengupta

Prof. Partho S. Sengupta from fringes of Calcutta!
Behavioral Sciences Area/Master – NLP Trainer/Practitioner;
Former Member – Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC);
The writer can be reached at [email protected]