I have not been writing content on this blog for a long time. Partly because I have been busy with other stuff. Partly because I have been waiting for something really valuable to arrive t
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Category: Consciousness
A Review of the Emotion Machine
I finished reading the emotion machine at last today. I wrote a review of it on goodreads. You may kindly peruse the review here. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of
Read moreNeural Correlates of Experience
I remember I wrote about spontaneity a few years back on this blog. I remember how I was thinking about it one day and eventually had my thoughts written down. You can read my article
Read moreWhen Hope Can be Wrong
Hope is taught as a great thing. Especially, when you are confronted with adversity, you can expect to receive this advice to be hopeful from every corner. Even your own consciousness can tell you to
Read moreIs Good Better or the Great
One thing that has baffled me for the better part of my life is the question that whether good is better or the great? I mean great in the sense of Alexandar the great. I
Read moreLegitimized Corruption
One should not grow up to have ideological differences with power brokers. This kind of mindset has consequences on the human personality. For one thing, you can end up developing a mentality that easily finds
Read moreNeural Correlates of Belief
We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research article that recently got published in a nice conference. It
Read moreMummifying Content
A friend posted a rather long status update on Facebook. People conceive ideas and they feel compelled to convey them to others. The irony of Facebook status updates is that even if they are taken
Read moreNot So Cool!
I can be a weird thinker at times. I have to spend considerable time in solitude. Solitude is better for me, even if I don’t like it completely. It helps my work, my calm and
Read moreMy Two Cents for the Separatists
A few days ago, I saw a comment on a friend’s wall on facebook. It had stuff about provincial autonomy, injustice, inequality and separatism in Pakistan. I replied to that and here are my responses.
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