The second of the books my aged father presented me for my birthday this year is The Silk Road: A New History by Valerie Hansen. Written and published in 2012 by OUP, the book is an account of life in Central Asia and Western China during ancient times when the Silk Road trade is said… Continue reading The Silk Road: A New History Full of Strange Surprises
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My aged father presented me Ghost-Eye for my birthday last month, and it was after a long time that one was reading a novel by Amitav Ghosh. Actually, it’s not a novel in the real sense of the term, but a strange tale of supernatural proportions. It’s a story that combines reincarnation, superstition, fantasy and… Continue reading A Fishy Tale of Reincarnation Cases in Modern Times
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In my review of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 in April this year, I had written about how the book traced the evolution of Indian thought. I had also written about how the book traces the ways in which Indian philosophical thought was heavily influenced by Buddhism and Jainism, and how the latter were in turn… Continue reading Indian Philosophy Volume 2: A Journey Towards Theism
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Having written and shared my thoughts on several brands and companies on my blog for many years, and having embarked on a more focused Brandology exercise this year, I thought it’s perhaps time to share my thoughts on how brands are actually connected with companies and explain my thinking a little more. Brands and companies… Continue reading Brands’ Connections with Companies Explained
“Open AI’s definition of AGI (artificial general intelligence): Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.” “Computer science and AI community are gripped by an ideological vision that places AGI, meaning machines, that exceed all human capabilities, as its highest possible pursuit.” The statements above are from a research paper/essay by MIT… Continue reading Imagining the AI Economy
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