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For a few decades now, I have consciously made it a practice to go thru 3-5 aforesaid fascinating (& scholarly) write-ups per day, if not for anything else, but for at least keeping the gray-cells alive or in a suitable state of being tickled etc – in an otherwise staid, stagnant, stinky & festering blight that the anti-knowledge, anti-intellectual & dishonest – I mean, Dravidian environment…

…Sometimes it is about reading just the abstract+intro+conclusions part of a given paper. Many a time, it is the whole paper – to the extent that I can make sense of them. It takes about 1.5 hours per day on an average. Of course it is immensely fascinating & enjoyable to drink of the fountainheads/efforts of some of the fantastic & high IQ people.

The subjects of such delights include histories & current developments across bharatiyata, languages, social sciences studies, math, hard sciences, engg & tech, education, econ, design, riddles++ – trackable/mappable to some 80+ specific areas that are in the current-view of my rather limited interests/radar. (to the extent that I could understand & track them, that is!)

Okay. Sometimes I even read hopeless & fecal papers (for pure humor or to get massively & bottomlessly depressed, when I feel guilty about enjoying/appreciating life too much), mostly from TISS, Ashoka, APU & their ilk – not to mention the gone-case #DravidianModel TN university fakeries (like Madras, Anna, Bharatiyar, Madurai Kamaraj, Bharatidasan++++++) :-(

…However, no worries fellas & fellerinas, I won’t mention the excretal or mediocre, I mean Dravidian stuff here.

Anyway.

This series of rather whimsical listings (spanning across subjects, with mostly no order) would strive to have a high SNR. And, am sharing the pointers because I have found them to be fascinating and they have certainly opened for me, the doors towards some brilliant ideas/possibilities – and in many cases, they have disabused me of my incorrect ideas and mis-understandings etc. May be you would find them at least, mildly interesting.

’nuff said.

As I caution frequently, YMMV, of course.

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(about embodied consciousness++)

(What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 435-450. Online)

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(Wootters, W. K., & Zurek, W. H. (1982). A single quantum cannot be cloned. Nature, 299(5886), 802–803)

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(Regev, A., & Shapiro, E. (2002). Cellular abstractions – Cells as computation. Nature, 419(6905), 343–343)

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(MAXWELL, W. E. “Sri Rama, A Malay Fairy Tale, Founded on the Râmâyana – Penglipur Lara The Soother of Cares.” Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, no. 17, 1886, p. 1-149)

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(Shulman, D. (1976). The Murderous Bride – Tamil Versions of the Myth of Devī and the Buffalo-Demon. History of Religions, 16(2), 120–146)

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Hopefully, I would be able to add more to this series, as and when my time, energy and enthu permit them/it.

(Of course you hapless 7½ readers of the blog can continue to keep quiet or engage in conversations post your reading/browsing of the above – and can share your comments, reviews, brickbats and the like)