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Books by Madhu Prabakaran

Intelligence is experiential, it is life-form dependent. It is fundamentally dharma itself as I s... more Intelligence is experiential, it is life-form dependent. It is fundamentally dharma itself as I stated in my last post. The intelligence of human lifeforms cannot be the same as that of Dolphins, elephants or eagles. Swarm intelligence of insects is different from the collective intelligence of microorganic collectives that form into complex beings like humans. The human life-form has intelligence from cellular, organic, neurologic, cerebral, historical and social interfaces. Various levels of intelligence and potential give rise to human life-forms that are in political contests with each other in social life. At all levels of intelligence and their evolution (learning/ construing sense of information) happens as facilitated by the interfaces & dimensions available at different levels of existential reality. Intelligence is inward-out evolved through experience. It inevitably has functional, imagined, heuristic, fictional and creative aspects. Humans have the intelligence of imagined society, religion, and hierarchies, constrained by their empirical perceptive apparatus, which were probabilistically historical. Human Intelligence is not a truth-grasping mechanism, but rather an experience of interfaceconstrained learning. Computation unlike intelligence is not an evolved inward-out experience with interface-dependent fictional creative experi

Papers by Madhu Prabakaran

Higher Education for the Future

The article’s central theme is that knowing cannot be equated with knowledge because knowing is a... more The article’s central theme is that knowing cannot be equated with knowledge because knowing is an innate process and knowledge is a product. Knowing as an intuitive process is an inalienable experience, whereas knowledge is an alienable property. Knowledge is a discursive construct of human political economy, whereas knowing is the very character of existence. Knowing arises as we interact. It involves awareness, understanding and the experience of intelligence. Knowledge, on the other hand, is a commercial product of the class-ridden world. The argument has its implication for higher education, that is, higher education should primarily focus on nourishing the knowing quotient without being lost in knowledge production. The article traverses various realms of knowing, such as knowing subjects, learning beings, ontologies and epistemologies of knowledge and knowing, as they glimmered from the ancient to the modern both in the east and the west. Towards the end of the article, the a...

The Rocket Science and Art of : Business, Economy & Wealth Creation

Higher Education for the Future

The Rocket Science and Art of : Business, Economy & Wealth Creation

We have multiple existences. Each of our existence is sperate from the other. They are connected ... more We have multiple existences. Each of our existence is sperate from the other. They are connected too. We have an existence of physical organic body with organs. The chain of bodily existence has organs, fluids, tissues, cells, gases, microbes, all functioning separate, autonomously. Our body is a dynamic biological field. There are millions of beings independent of our DNA remain part of our body ecosystem. Our DNA is a learning system within the biological city. It struggles to learn and passes on its manual of management to the next generation. As humans we have a sense of self, that is, we have a sense of "I". Many other beings too have the sense of I. However, having the sense of I is not a universal phenomenon in all beings that exist. A microbe may not be having the sense of I as we do. Mammals, birds, reptiles, and even plants, have a sense of their existence to various kinds and degrees. Humans have an extended sense of self, which is synchronically social and diachronically historical. Sense of social is shared by many species, however, an explicit sense of history based on memory of shared information is uniquely human. The interesting aspect of the diachronic or synchronic memory of humans is that they are mostly imagined, fictitious and interactionally constructed, socio-historically spread and mostly false by objective standards of factuality. We are geographically local beings like other beings. Nevertheless, we expand our space beyond our local space, become global, by our power of imagination. Temporally we are beings of momentariness, but, with the power of imagination, we become historical beings, beings in time, not merely beings of time. Our history is made of storytelling, impressions, biases, classifications having little to do with their corresponding factuality. The fictions we embroil decide our collective social existence. Our social existence is only one among many of our existences, though highly determining our quality of life. Through our social existence, we have the imagined games of identity: economical, social, political forms of identities of shared interests. These are socially constructed imagined existence but thickly interconnected having its trajectories, traversals, projections, upheavals, sufferings, usurpation, endowments, power plays, business etc., a huge game of its own autopoietic rules, making us forgetful of our other forms of existence. This imagined game when takes the toll of lives, makes too many people suffer, then we should be free to rewrite the rules of the game. It is rewriting the norms of test match cricket into 20/20. The primary responsibility of Social Scientists, whether they are economists, sociologists, anthropologists, political theorists, should be that they should expose that our social existence is a game based on imagined rules, and remain a force countervailing the interests which profit out of others suffering. It is difficult because a whole lot of social sciences are funded to extend the game by the privileged. However, to retain the nomenclature of 'science' social scientists should claim their autonomy, and use it to make the game fairer.

The paper argues that good work is a movement towards unconcealment, Bad work is a movement towar... more The paper argues that good work is a movement towards unconcealment, Bad work is a movement towards closure. Opening up the closure. and movement towards unconcealment, the great revealing, should be the project of progressive history. A good business is a good worked carried ahead in this sense. Work holds on to wealth. Greater work means greater wealth. And work is a work as much it is attuned to the greater cosmic project of being human. Business and economy should catch up with the truth. Goodness is not a charity, it is catching up with being human.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014

ABSTRACT The paper explains how money as a master dispositif had guided history through instituti... more ABSTRACT The paper explains how money as a master dispositif had guided history through institutions of servitude, slavery, its abolition and free labour through networks of human relations. The first section of the paper deals with the idea of money as dispositif. Second section explains how the motive of accumulation of wealth had driven the early modern Europeans into slave traders. Third section explains the abolition of slavery is in continuity with the motive of accumulation. It is explained, the free market for labour is a further extension of the logic of wealth accumulation through control and domination. The fourth section opens the discussion towards imagining counter-dispositif. Dispositif is naturalised power, the second nature that works from within as our mentality

Dharma is a pivotal concept in Indian philosophy. Dharma is the unifying intelligence, be it at t... more Dharma is a pivotal concept in Indian philosophy. Dharma is the unifying intelligence, be it at the nano level or at the whole of the cosmic frequencies (spanda), at all levels of its existence, be it real (vaikharika), corporal (madhyama), incorporeal (pasyanti), or at its ethereal level of sunyata (void) or para (absolute). That is, dharma pervades throughout all states of existence, understood in terms of para, pasyanti, madhyama, and vaikharika expressions (vak) in Indian philosophy. Intelligence (buddhi) and ethics (dharma) are not two different things. They are the same aspects with differing emphases. Dharma is both intelligence and ethics; ethics as well as ethos; and the interior of ethereal form that manifests as material reality and its ruliad aspects of computation grasped by us in its algorithms. Dharma is emitted at the very source of para as spanda, making its states of existence possible. It is fundamental and unvio-lable; it cannot be annihilated. Rules of ruliad space or forms of formulaic space cannot be annihilated, though our ill-perceived computation may lead us astray. Dharma is the ethics, ethos, intelligence and fundamental matheme of existence. It is unintelligence if we do not recognize or discover dharma through the tao of existence. We can violate it only at our peril. Violating dharma is bad karma, which lets us accumulate debt and indebtedness. Dharma is the source principle of neethi and nyaya.

Journal of Applied Physics, 2015

We employ an extension of Harrison's theory at the tight binding level of approximation to develo... more We employ an extension of Harrison's theory at the tight binding level of approximation to develop a predictive approach for band gap engineering involving isovalent doping of wide band gap semiconductors. Our results indicate that reasonably accurate predictions can be achieved at qualitative as well as quantitative levels. The predictive results were checked against ab initio ones obtained at the level of DFT/SGGA þ U approximation. The minor disagreements between predicted and ab initio results can be attributed to the electronic processes not incorporated in Harrison's theory. These include processes such as the conduction band anticrossing [Shan et al.,

Spelt here is the quintessence of yoga. 2. Turning mental modifications inward, towards the sourc... more Spelt here is the quintessence of yoga. 2. Turning mental modifications inward, towards the source, is yoga. 3. Thus, one settles with originary disposition. 4. Contrary to inward modifications, world process modification are externally directed. 5. Five folds of modifications draw mind either towards inward tranquillity or towards external afflictions. 6. The fivefold afflicting modifications are by: cognition, discrimination, imagination, deep sleep or remembrance. 7. The fivefold liberative modifications are guided by the combination of: direct experience, inference, scriptural testimony, sequential cognition or proof. 8. False cognition is nurtured by habitual perception. 9. Verbal knowledge does not liberate one from false cognition. 10. We are free from false cognition while we are in deep sleep state. 11. Memory preserves false cognition. 12. Dispassion is a means to restrain false cognition. 13. Practice dispassion to restrain false cognition. 14. Accelerate the practice with uninterrupted devotion. 15. The practice leads one to right awareness that in turn relives one from false cognitions and its cravings. 16. When the practice intensifies, we overcome our fixity to gunas, as we approach the void aspect of the Purusha, the source. 17. As the practice matures, we attain serene tranquillity crossing across the stages of curiosity to know, reflexiveness, bliss, and a sense beyond identities. 18. As the practice nears perfection, except latent impressions, all other cognitions are stilled. 19. So long as the latent cognitions are not stilled, we are born into existence through cycle of births and deaths. 20. Total cessation of cognition comes with the practice of faith, determination, mindfulness and meditation. 21. For the intensely keen, the salvation is imminent. 22. Proportionate to their intense pursuit sooner or later the salvation is achieved. 23. Some achieve it by their devotion to Eswara. 24. Eswara is Purusha as being uncliched by afflictions or their fruitions. 25. Eswara is the seed of the omniscience par excellent. 26. Eswara is the primary guru of all gurus since the ancient; Eswara is unconstrained by time. 27. OM the seed syllable connotes Eswara. 28. Eswara is the seed syllable existing as a special being. 29. The grace of Eswara the impediments for salvation dissolves into absence. 30. Disease, idleness, doubt, delusion, negligence, indulgence, misapprehension, inertia, and wavering are the impediments.

The presentation is about Design & Design Thinking. It is a presentation version of my paper titl... more The presentation is about Design & Design Thinking. It is a presentation version of my paper titled "That Which Defies Dharma Is Not Design: An
Exploration of Design Thinking From Eastern and
Western Thought". This PPT is much simpler than the paper.

The Rocket Science and Art of : Business, Economy & Wealth Creation

For the Kapila of Samkya "virtual is real" as Gilles Deleuze too says. However, for Kapila, there... more For the Kapila of Samkya "virtual is real" as Gilles Deleuze too says. However, for Kapila, there exist a real which is not virtual. He called that real without virtual as Purusha, and the virtual as real is for him Prakriti. And there is a third aspect, virtual as virtual, that is our empirical understanding. He appreciates that as "avidya" a stepping stone for "vidya", by which he conveys, every step we step forward in our understanding is our current avidya, and recommends us to step ahed towards vidya, that is aways ahead.

It is about what should be business.

This is about the Global Economic Infrastructure

Economics, as it is taught by the Pandemics

The heartbreaking guest-labour exodus from their non-native states is heart breaking. There shoul... more The heartbreaking guest-labour exodus from their non-native states is heart breaking. There should be some solution for it. What appears to me as a solution is, strengthen the possibility of people living wherever there are native and expand the mindscape of guest states not to be hostile or unconcerned about the guest labours. The following are my suggestions: 1. Implement pro-poor land reform in India make the unfortunate to own land for livelihood.

Liberal Arts as a Bottom up curriculum design.

A World Without Poverty is Possible

Cross Cultural Management in a Single Slide

Religion is always a posteriori individuation

How religions are made of stolen mythologies

It is a meditation on being human...

On the construction of Social Time.

It is about Field & momentum of moments.

Maslow from his transpersonal psychology

Praxeology for gig economy

It is a teaching document based on secondary data & secondary information.

How to be culturally competent?

It explains the idea of ethical intelligence as a combination of active {Understanding, impulse c... more It explains the idea of ethical intelligence as a combination of active {Understanding, impulse control, imagination & stewardship}

It is a syllabus/ course plan I designed for PGDM course

Performance- competency & Talent

The exploration of language, time, and existence has long captivated the minds of philosophers, l... more The exploration of language, time, and existence has long captivated the minds of philosophers, linguists, and scholars throughout history. In this write-up, we delve into the intricate realms of Indian philosophical thought, tracing the profound insights of grammarians, logicians, and epistemologists who grappled with fundamental questions about the nature of language, the essence of time, and the fabric of reality itself. From the foundational works of luminaries such as Pānini and Bhartṛhari to the nuanced perspectives of Nāgārjuna and Dignāga, this examination traverses the rich tapestry of Indian philosophical traditions, shedding light on the diverse approaches to understanding the complexities of human experience and linguistic cognition. Through their meticulous analyses and philosophical inquiries, these scholars not only elucidated the mechanics of language formation but also delved into profound metaphysical inquiries, challenging conventional notions of reality and perception.

It is about the consistent political question of human thought is mostly about the border they dr... more It is about the consistent political question of human thought is mostly about the border they draw between the self and the other and the power they assume thereof. T

Politics of Knowledge Empirically, life exists as body, hence it is material effect. The question... more Politics of Knowledge Empirically, life exists as body, hence it is material effect. The question is whether a being is life embodied or is life a body effect. Political materialism demands the second premise to be the better choice. Otherwise, the scholarships in post-structural, political materialism would lose its space. Like religions hold on to their premises, refuse to vacate, the scholarly fraternity would fight for their legitimacy. Many, as it is in the case of religion, believe that their faith is too sacred to be let to fail.

Business is rapidly catching up with its originary sense of bisignes which meant 'being occupied ... more Business is rapidly catching up with its originary sense of bisignes which meant 'being occupied with the activity of care and diligence'. Of late, business is seen more as active service than static firms. In other words tacit operational, service, information & knowledge dimensions of business gathers greater attention, relevance and volume of trade. The transition revolutionizes business towards recognizing its authentic essence of its being human activity. The transition that prioritizes operations and services over departments and products compels the business academia to reorient its priorities. Business is fundamentally an activity. It is a human activity. It is human in the sense of its creative, sensuous and interactive aspect. In other words, it is a service. To be more precise business is a paid service that has service providers and service receivers linked by mutual compensation. Broadly speaking, even a product is a service. Product is an embodied service. The rest, including the firms, their organizational structures, processes, operations & procedures are infrastructure that facilitate the service. Operationally, it means-human & interaction aspect of business activity should be part and parcel of all functional areas of business irrespective of it being operations, systems, marketing, finance, consumer relations, labour relations, corporate social responsibility, or analytics. It is proposed, engaging with business, from such a perspective would transform the way business is operationally done. We presume such an understanding already is catching up with business. Business today is emerging more as an activity than predominantly something do to with the firms, ownership and profit accumulation. The trend gradually transforms business domain, letting firms to be networking entities facilitating the flow of service. With greater technological development, the trend is accelerated. The transition challenges the conventional way of business done through compartmentalized functionaries. The spirit of activity replaces departments, regimented specializations, and even the division between business and service. Business activity demands specialized knowledge of human relations, financial, operations, and marketing skills, distinct from departments carrying out specialized functions. The transition poses challenge to all functions of management, especially the HR function. It demands the whole of the business as activity to be sensitive to the human aspect of service.

Academics is not secondary to practice. It is an autonomous domain that discovers wisdom for bett... more Academics is not secondary to practice. It is an autonomous domain that discovers wisdom for better practice. Education is an endeavour that improves the fields of operations, not merely an endeavour that supplies workforce: not a glorified employment exchange. Management education should produce candidates who are skilled visionaries, not merely employable workforce, certainly not they should be paper qualification academies. The presentation discusses how to make management education more relevant.

Cultural intelligence is in discovering the being human

Crux of Indian Ideal: Ancient art of living

It is a very short note on disruptive workspace.