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The Reason of Existence
- By Ali Mujahid
If we look around us we find everything in nature serves a purpose. The trees, mountains, rivers, lakes, insects are all interlinked to serve a purpose. If we look at the harmony in nature it seems that everything that exists knows it purpose. The only living thing not in harmony is the human being. Could this be the reason for such unrest within our society? That as human being we don’t know why we exist what is our purpose, do we even have a purpose. Personally these are age-old questions, which are answered by numerous philosophers from all time. But here I would like to use this aspect in person-to-person bases.
Each and every individual on this planet is different; each one of us has a different mix of talent. What I would like my readers to do is to write down the reason of your existence on a piece of paper.
This one statement can make the life of an individual more fruitful. Any individual with this statement written down would be more focused towards his/her goals and objectives. The person would develop excellent planning skills and implement them with a passion. If the individual have a strong belief about his / her reason of existence then there is a likely chance that this person would become a leader.
In order to develop a good reason of existence there are basically two rules. First is that it should not be too narrow and secondly it should not be too broad. Let’s take a simple example to say, “You exist only to fulfill your family requirements.” This statement is to narrow. What if God forbid the family dies then there would be no reason for the individual’s existence. Similarly if the statement is to broad like “I exist to perform good deeds in the society”. This statement is too broad and not much planning can go into it. The reason of existence should have a balance. Read the rest of this entry »
Artificial Intelligence
Introduction:
This is an ironic twist in terminology. The term “intelligence” refers to processing capability; therefore, every computer is intelligent. However, artificial intelligence implies human-like intelligence.
Possibly we can say that it means “un-natural understanding”.
Artificial intelligence in some sense is engineering inspired by biology. It is a branch of Science which deals with helping machines to find solutions to complex problems in a more human-like fashion.
In AI, an “intelligent system” is one that exhibits behaviors normally associated with human intelligence.
Definition:
Defining “intelligence” in a computer system can be problematic since intelligence can be defined as something that humans possess and computers do not. In AI, however, an “intelligent system” is one that exhibits behaviors normally associated with human intelligence. Systems that perform complex diagnostic procedures and pattern matching are considered intelligent.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science and engineering that deals with intelligent behavior, learning, and adaptation in machines.
The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence and which brings common sense, expert knowledge, and superhuman reasoning to computers.
Schools of thought:
AI divides roughly into two schools of thought: Conventional AI and Computational Intelligence (CI), also sometimes referred to as Synthetic Intelligence to highlight the differences. Read the rest of this entry »
The Myth of Independence – Review
Book Review: “The Myth of Independence” By Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Author’s note:
“The reader will discover for himself in the pages of this book what opinions I hold, what my attitude is to world problems, what mistakes I believe were committed by Pakistan in dealing with foreign powers__particularly with Global Powers __and how those mistakes may be remedied; what my proposals are for a foreign policy adequate to avert the dangers which now threaten the country.”
Pakistan had been under military rule by a government headed by Ayub Khan since 1958. Bhutto, who served as minister of foreign affairs until asked to resign in 1966. In December 1967 Bhutto formed his own political party, the Pakistan People’s Party.
During his student days, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had acquired an anti-Imperialist view of the world. He was a firm believer in economic self confidence and political independence, themes he illustrated in this book The Myth of Independence. This book is a conclusion of the events, and experiences of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as foreign minister.
The book is dedicated to The Sovereign People of Pakistan, and was released in 1969.
Review:
The selected book has twenty chapters. The first one is devoted to ‘The Struggle for Equality’ describing the conflicts between groups, seeking their own interests and the fact that, for centuries Europe was the centre from which conflicts spreaded out but now the eye of the storm has shifted to Asia for example, Vietnam war. The writer has discussed that the fighting between the Arab states and Israel put west Asia and south-east Asia together in the same furnace of war. He has discussed the domination of countries which has been given the name of ‘White Man’s Burden’. He has also discussed the one dimensional approach to diplomacy, the nature of Pak-US relations, the US decision of termination of military assistance to Pakistan, affect of chains of colonialism and has concluded that the struggle of Pakistan and India to attain sovereign equality continues unsettled. He says that:
“Twenty years of independence have revealed to the people of Pakistan and India the sharp difference that really exists between independence and sovereign equality”. Read the rest of this entry »