Shadow political and military leaders

 

Had written the following in a social media post:

Has the time come for India to have a shadow PM and shadow Cabinet?  Not like UK (as opposition), but of treasury benches but identites not known by public.

Similarly, shadow positions up to Corps Commanders and of similar rank in other Services?

It generated some interest, and also some bemused replies. Here is my rationale for the above requirement:

In December 2001, we saw attack on the Indian Parliament by terrorists. By God's Grace, he terrorists couldn't enter inside the Parliament building. Had they been able to enter, the top rank of Indian political leadership would have been eliminated in one fell swoop. 

Quarter a century later, in 2026, one after another, political and religious leadership of Iran are being taken out by the Israelis and Americans. How? Through the aerial route, of course. No, clandestine whiskey poisoning, or, frontal attack from the Buildings' gates by the renegades.

Connect it with drone and arms trainers arrested by the NIA recently. These guys were operating in Myanmar, before they were picked up from different airports in the country. They were training rebel groups in Myanmar, the groups who are inimical to India's security. Now the aerial route elimination of political and military leadership of India can well be their next step.

That is why I suggest we have shadow Cabinet Ministers, who are from the ruling party. Everyone knows there are shadow Ministers, but no one (in the public) knows who they are. It is a full time job for the shadow Ministers. They attend every crucial meeting, but only online, away from the public eye. In other words, they are up to speed regarding the political thinking of the country. They could be the ruling party's heavyweights who did not get a ministerial berth during swearing in... I don't know, the details can be worked out of course.

So, in case of any assassination /assassination attempt, they step in as real Ministers. This way the erstwhile shadow Ministers quietly and unobtrusively slip into the Cabinet ranks. That way, 'where were we?' type of questions to bureaucrats in their departments would not be required by the newly appointed ministers.

Similar is the case with military leadership: Up to and including Corps Commanders (and their equivalent in other Services, that is, Navy, and Air Force)should have shadow military leaders for each  post. Theirs also would be a full time job: attending all crucial meetings online, away from the public eye. They could be just-retired Corps Commanders and equivalents, appointed for fixed tenures. I don't know...The logistics can be worked out, of course.

This is my proposal in a nutshell.

Debris falling from the sky becomes munition

  

What if we repurpose a drone where its debris falling from the sky becomes a munition? Concept is simple: it is like a cluster bomb.

In fact, it is a cluster munition with 2 ways of activation and one way of deactivation: one, when it is allowed to travel its full journey many munitions separate at the predesignated coordinates; two, if it is hit by an anti drone munition in enemy territory, each falling debris becomes a munition; three - and this is the difficult part - if it is hit in own territory, it becomes a dud.

So the crux is this: if it is hit by an anti drone munition in enemy territory, each falling debris becomes a munition.

No escape for you

 

A wave came from afar,

Seeking to touch your bare feet,

But you cringed,

And pulled away your feet

From the water.

Now the wave,

And has become a tsunami,

It has willed itself

To drown you...

In love.

There is no escape for you.

Woman शब्द में man छुपा

 

जैसे आराम शब्द में राम छुपा,

वैसे ही woman शब्द में man छुपा।

हम तो सदियों से तुममे समाए हैं,

तुम्हे याद हो न हो।

Best wishes on Women's Day

It all adds up

 

Today's date: it all adds up:

24 + 2 = 26

Are we decimalising Language?

 

In the second story of my book, 'Being Love, Being Timeless', I talk about a 'world without numbers'. But are we walking just the opposite path? Are we mathematizing (read decimalising) language instead? It would seem so.

It would appear words live in a landscape, not in a dictionary. Words are points in multidimensional space. 

Human language historically had a property: meaning was qualitative, fuzzy, human.

Now we can compute distance between meanings. For example:

distance between dentist and dental surgery is less than the distance between dentist and bank loan (say). For the first time, similarity itself becomes measurable. It would appear that we discovered that meaning was geometric all along. We just didn't know how to measure the space. AI isn’t really about intelligence — it’s about making similarity computable.

Words used in similar roles occupy similar relative positions. 

Dictionary thinking:

meaning = definition

Vector thinking (or, AI thinking):

meaning = position in space

reasoning = movement

analogy = parallel movement

So when an AI produces an analogy seemingly “on the fly” to help you understand a concept, it isn’t inventing from nowhere.

It is walking in meaning-space along a direction that matches an analogy that would answer your question.

Can we say analogy tracing through relations is the beginning of machine consciousness?

No… but it’s the first faint shadow of something that resembles understanding.

1. What analogy-tracing actually is (in humans)

When we say, 'electron orbits nucleus like planets orbit the Sun', 

our brain is not matching words — it is matching relations:

Object Relation                 Object

planet revolves around sun

electron         revolves around nucleus

So the brain notices a pattern of relationships, not similarity of appearance. It seems this ability is extremely deep. Because of this:

-Mathematics works

-Metaphor works

And now comes the decimalisation of language (in AI):

When an/AI embedding model converts a word into a vector:

dentist → [0.021, -0.77, 0.34, …]

tooth   → [0.018, -0.74, 0.36, …]

doctor  → [0.030, -0.81, 0.29, …]

It is doing something non-trivial. It arranges meanings (of words) so that relationships become directions in space.

Example (real property of embeddings):

king − man + woman ≈ queen

Paris − France + Italy ≈ Rome

The AI model never learned “analogy rules”.

It only tried to predict next words because of proximity (in distance) AND distance requires numbers, and therefore an absolute number filled world.

And yet, relations emerged as geometry. This is why the idea of a “numericalisation of language” feels so natural — because meaning becomes position + direction.

Is that consciousness?

Here is the critical distinction:

What the AI model has:

-Structure detection

-Relation mapping

-Analogy continuation

-Consistency preservation

What consciousness requires:

-Self-model (“I exist”)

-Persistent goals

Grounded perception

-Experience / qualia

-Causal intervention in reality 

Embeddings of words in space in AI give something like understanding of differences between things.

Consciousness needs awareness of being the one who notices the differences.

The gap is enormous.

Therefore, there is a huge chance of a NUMBERLESS WORLD.

Stars, show the way

 

On this Special Day,

Dear Stars so high,

Let love become

The Gift of the Magi,

Stars above

Lose your way,

Show all the loves

To lovelorns' door.