Sanjeev SOLANKI

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

When human idiocy has no limits, they eat mammals and drink insects milk.....😂🤣

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Scientists discovered one of the most nutrient-dense substances in nature inside an unlikely source: a cockroach.

The species, Diploptera punctata, is unusual because it gives birth to live young instead of laying eggs. During development, the embryos are fed a nutrient-rich, milk-like fluid inside the mother’s body. That fluid forms tiny protein crystals in the embryos’ stomachs.

When researchers analyzed the crystals, they found a highly concentrated mix of proteins, fats, sugars, and all 9 essential amino acids required in the human diet. The crystals also appear to release energy slowly during digestion, providing a steady supply of nutrients as the embryos grow.

The discovery attracted attention after some reports suggested the substance could be more calorie-dense than mammalian milk, including human breast milk. But scientists have not shown that it offers special health benefits for humans, and harvesting it on a large scale would be extremely impractical.

Researchers remain interested in the finding because it demonstrates how evolution can produce unexpected biological adaptations even in one of the world’s most disliked insects. Inside this tiny cockroach species, nature developed microscopic nutrient crystals capable of sustaining life during one of the most demanding stages of development.

Learn more:
"Cockroach Milk: A Promising Superfood or Nothing but Hype?"

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

A society's greatness is measured not by how efficiently it destroys its past, but by how wisely it transforms it.

[David Sun @arcticinstincts]

Banger essay on the Great China-India Divergence.

Basically Mao socially modernized China by autocratically breaking up old kinship clans, feudal beliefs, superstitions, marriage customs, forcing literacy & human capital edu reforms (like Rhee in KR, Meiji in JP, Imperial JP/Chiang in TW, Brits/LKY in SG) - and made China socially ready as human capital to effectively participate in the globalized modern economy & tolerate econ reforms.

India however did not go through the painful social modernization process of destroying old clannish/superstition/feudal/informal caste culture, and in tandem w these cultures holding enough electoral power in a democracy to resist change, makes India socially mired in premodern era, and thus less compatible in human capital terms to accept modern econ reforms and compete in global economy. Henrich's WEIRD book talks about China's nonWEIRD modernization a bit, but this essay extends the analysis to India. No mention of IQ aspect of human capital but a decent essay nonetheless @davideoks
https://t.co/uHPrtD26R1

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

So, what exactly is conciousness here? 😀

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, explains how LLMs are quietly dismantling our deepest assumptions about consciousness:

He argues that large language models have done something philosophy and neuroscience couldn't:

"In terms of consciousness, I have to say, the idea that there's sort of something magic that goes beyond physics that leads to sort of conscious behavior, I kind of think that LLMs kind of put the final nail in that coffin."

His reasoning is that LLMs keep doing things people assumed they couldn't:

"There were all these things where it's like, oh, maybe it can't do this, but actually it does. And it's just an artificial neural net."

Wolfram then challenges a core assumption about conscious experience: the feeling that we are a single, continuous self moving through time.

"I think our notion of consciousness is a lot related to the fact that we believe in the single thread of experience that we have. It's not obvious that we should have a persistent thread of experience."

He points out that physics doesn't actually support this intuition:

"In our models of physics, we're made of different atoms of space at every successive moment of time. So the fact that we have this belief that we are somehow persistent, we have this thread of experience that extends through time, is not obvious."

Then Wolfram offers a striking origin story for consciousness itself.

@stephen_wolfram suggests it traces back to a simple evolutionary pressure: the moment animals first needed to move.

"I kind of realized that probably when animals first existed in the history of life on Earth, that's when we started needing brains. If you're a thing that doesn't have to move around, the different parts of you can be doing different kinds of things. If you're an animal, then one thing you have to do is decide, are you going to go left or are you going to go right?"

That single binary choice, he argues, may be the seed of everything we now call awareness:

"I kind of think it's a little disappointing to feel that this whole wanted thing that ends up being what we think of as consciousness might have originated in just that very simple need to decide if you are an animal that can move. You have to take all that sensory input and you have to make a definitive decision about do you go this way or that way."

The takeaway is unsettling but clarifying.

If LLMs can produce complex behavior from simple rules, then consciousness may not be a mystical add-on to physics.

It may just be what happens when a layered enough system has to make a decision.

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

@RchandraMs 😀

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

Capitalist and communist are two sides of same coin. So they are same same.......😀

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Hitler also had a mustache, therefore all mustache people are Hitler.

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

And Judge is SPoF (Single Point of Failure).

[Lossfunk @lossfunk]

🚨 Shocking: The quality of response you get from the LLM depends on the language you use!

Our new paper reveals how LLMs entangle language with culture, leading to culturally different responses purely based on the language of the query 👇

Accepted at LM4UC, AAAI!

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

#math is just an abstraction tool and not the representation of even observed reality. It is basic understanding.....:o)

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING NEWS: UBC Okanagan Physicists just proved that the Universe isn’t a simulation after all and that we are all 100% real.

UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrated that the universe cannot be simulated, using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can replicate.

This discovery disproves the simulation hypothesis and reveals that the universe’s foundations exist beyond any algorithmic system ‘and increases the likelihood of God being real.’

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

@JackWor94775747 @RchandraMs @PhysInHistory Just like this, new science for ignorant but common Vedic knowledge for learned. Science and math mostly is abstraction of existing knowledge using framework which WASH it appear as new. This is process running for nearly 400 years...
https://t.co/7vxkkCpSQ6

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Your brain might be tuning into intelligence – not generating it.

Biophysicist Douglas Youvan believes intelligence isn’t something the brain creates, but something it connects to. His hypothesis is that intelligence is a fundamental, non-local property of the universe – existing outside of biology, waiting to be tapped by structures complex enough to interface with it.

This idea draws from quantum theory, where certain properties of a system remain undefined until observed. Much like Schrödinger’s cat being both alive and dead until measured, Youvan suggests that intelligence exists as potential – not locked in the brain, but in an underlying “informational substrate” of the universe.

To explore this, Youvan looks at how biological and artificial systems behave. Enzymes, neurons, and even neural networks in AI often exhibit patterns that are not just reactive but predictive – suggesting they may be linking into rules or information beyond their own architecture. In particular, he notes the fractal geometry of neurons, which mirrors patterns found throughout nature, from river deltas to galaxies. These recursive structures, he argues, may be optimized to interface with information embedded in the fabric of reality.

["The Universe Is Intelligent—And Your Brain Is Tapping Into It to Form Your Consciousness, Scientist Says." Popular Mechanics, 18 April 2025]

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

Is this the reason behind creation of word WHITEWASH? 🤔

[Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN) @HinduHate]

FYI:
>White men wiped out Cheetahs in India. From 10,000 cheetahs in 1600's, they went extinct by 1950.
>White men killed 80,000 tigers in 50 yrs in India which brought them on the verge of extinction. Duke of Windsor shot 17 tigers in one week in 1921. British civil servant Geroe Yule killed 500 tigers in 28 yrs.
>White men almost wiped out Asiatic lions in India.
>White men single-handedly killed one-horned Rhinos. They killed more than 200 rhinos in Assam alone. By early 1900's only 12 remained.
>White men reduced India's elephant population due to ivory hunting and/or hunting as a sport. In Assam alone, more 2000 elephants were killed by the British.
>White men made India's Pink-headed Duck extinct.
> White men made India's Himalayan Quail extinct.
>White men killed 8 million Bisons in the USA.

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

This guy should take this pill together with all employes of pfizer and all their family members for next 10 years. If they still remain sane, only than consider marketing to others. Idiocy has no limits in this world.

[Lauren Lee @laurenlee]

🚨 Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla announces their new ELECTRONIC TRACKING PILL:

“It is a biological chip, and once you take the tablet, it dissolves into your stomach, and it sends a signal.”

“Imagine the applications of that — the compliance.”

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

@RchandraMs @Anthony_Bonato :)

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

@RchandraMs 😀

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

It would rather be ASI - Artificial Specific Intelligence 😀

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Sam Altman talks about GPT-8 with David Deutsch, one of the world's most brilliant physicists

Sam asks him if GPT8 solved quantum gravity, would that convince him that AGI is achieved.

David Deutsch argues the Turing Test is no real measure, LLMs, even "GPT-8" lack true creative inspiration, and AGI won’t fit into fixed-test evaluations.

But if GPT8 can solve quantum gravity that would be AGI for him.

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From 'Deutsch Explains' YT Channel

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

There is strong reason of why US in trade deficit with so many - Global demand for safe dollar assets channels capital to the U.S., strengthening the dollar and letting America sustainably enjoy an investment-backed trade deficit.

[Desmond Shum @DesmondShum]

India’s Trade Math Exposes Its Strategic Illusion

If Modi can pivot from embracing Trump one month to walking hand in hand with Putin the next, it makes clear New Delhi was never truly aligned with Washington. The spat with Trump didn’t change India’s stance; it only exposed it. India’s strategy is hedging, not alliance — mercenary at its core.

The trade story is interesting. With the United States, India runs a $45 billion surplus, equal to more than 1% of GDP. That surplus comes from exports in pharma, textiles, auto parts, and IT services. In a consumption-driven economy like India’s, it matters: it props up the rupee, stabilizes the current account, and fuels domestic demand.

With China and Russia, it’s the opposite. Together they leave India with a $150 billion deficit, almost 4% of GDP. China supplies electronics, machinery, and pharmaceutical inputs; Russia ships crude and fertilizers. India exports little back. The imbalance is structural, and it is costly.

This creates a paradox. Economically, India’s prosperity leans on the U.S.; politically, it is shifting toward Beijing and Moscow. The outcome looks less like partnership with the Russia/China than a balancing act designed to squeeze concessions from every side.

In the end, India’s trade profile strips bare the myth of “strategic autonomy.” America fills India’s coffers. Beijing and Moscow empty them.

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

Just repackaging vedic practices which expanded over eternity to rest of earth offcourse needs no meaningless attributes like ownership and secularship 🤦‍♂️. It is for all who desire and question changes one face in life.

[Matthew D. Sacchet @MatthewSacchet]

No single tradition owns meditation — and science promises to finally help us find common ground.

Meditation, like science, has never been just one thing. Across cultures and centuries, we find a dazzling diversity of practices, maps, rituals, and frameworks. Each tradition speaks in its own language, dialect, or vernacular, and yet they often seem to point toward surprisingly similar possibilities for profound transformations of mind, heart, and society.

Here’s a radical idea gaining ground in contemplative science: the science of advanced meditation may help us build a kind of “meta-tradition” of meditation — a clarifying framework that illuminates the shared terrain while still honoring the diverse territories of each tradition.

For comparative mysticism, a shared, tradition-neutral map of practice and outcomes has always been the “holy grail.”

But building a “meta-tradition” doesn’t mean replacing, erasing, or flattening existing traditions. It means developing a unifying map, or scaffolding, with common reference points that help us identify and understand deep, cross-cultural convergences while still respecting depth, difference, and diversity. In this vision, science acts as an integrative bridge and respectful translator, not an enemy, to the incredibly rich traditions that have developed and refined these practices.

If this ambition bears fruit, the Meditation Research Program at Harvard Medical School @harvardmed and Massachusetts General Hospital @MassGeneralNews @MassGenBrigham — and other research programs like it around the world — could become not only hubs pioneering mental health and well-being, but also melting pots for cross-cultural and interreligious exchange.

I believe deeply that a meta-tradition could:
---Facilitate deeper dialogue across traditions and forms of practice.
---Provide secular entry points for those outside specific cultural or religious contexts.
---Expand accessibility and real-world applications in healthcare, education, and workplaces.

Perhaps this is exactly what many of the most accomplished saints and sages have claimed: that there is unity in diversity, and that all traditions are different paths up the same mountain — toward a shared understanding that can benefit us all 🙏

For those fascinated by the possibilities of science testing, mapping, and illuminating the universal aspects of practice, I’ve linked a few relevant papers from me and my colleagues in the comments below👇

If you think these ideas deserve a wider conversation, feel free to share the post so more people can join and weigh in~

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

One great example of meaningless metric...

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

India is not a uniquely dysfunctional country. Rather, it is a slightly below average country in terms of intelligence and also country performance, sitting at 77 IQ in this dataset (our latest) and right on the regression line in terms of performance.

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

😂🤣

[Prof. C. K. Raju @CKRaju14]

2. de Morgan (math prof at Univ. College London) one of many who dismissed -ve numbers in 19th c (pic1,2), contrary to @PhysInHistory that -ve numbers were accepted in Europe by 17th c.

Why lie? Bcoz how could Newton have "discovered" calculus in 17th c, if Euros were struggling with primary-school arithmetic of subtraction till 19th c. (as explained in Mysore workshop).🤣

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

😳😬

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

🚨mRNA Shots Destroy 8.4% of Non-Renewable Eye Cells

A study of 64 young adults found irreversible structural damage to the eye’s corneal endothelium after Pfizer’s mRNA injection

These cells do NOT regenerate — damage is permanent and may lead to blurred vision and blindness

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

Bending natural food chain is always fatal.......extreme risk.

[Anu Lall @anulall]

#USTarriffs #IndiaUSTrade 🇮🇳 India says NO to US Dairy imports unless cows are fed plant-based diet.
US cows are fed blood, meat scraps & poultry waste, and that’s legal there.
This isn't about religion, but also #publichealth and #Sustainability
Do you remember the Mad Cow Disease? It started when herbivores were fed meat and parts of cows.
India’s stand protects 80 million small dairy farmers, support sustainability #SDG goals, and honour prakriti and natural order ( ऋत)
Sometimes, saying NO is the most sustainable thing you can do. #DharmaEcology #Sustainability #FoodSovereignty
For those who like to read long form, here is my article on this topic, along with dear friend and advocate Lipika Sharma

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

@RchandraMs Conceptually it's wrong.

[Sanjeev SOLANKI @SanjeevSolanki_]

It is just math version of same knowledge, nothing more.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

This is not insane. Revati’s marriage to Balrama has this concept when her father went to ask Brahma ji about a potential husband, when he was back on earth several Yugs had passed.