This pre-existent complexity derives from the fact that Light exists in multiple states simultaneously. Hence, there is a fundamental and single light-based edifice that informs our universe, and it is by virtue of this light-based edifice that all matter, all life, all mind, and all emergences beyond the level of mind will surface. The future of life, hence, cannot be due to AI. At best, AI, can create a process by which many tasks that usually require utilization of the fundamental light-derived capacity of intelligence in order to be completed, can be completed by an exhaustively repetitive running of algorithms driven by massive computing power, hence giving the illusion of intelligence. Projected forward, the exhaustively repetitive running of algorithms driven by massive computing power, endow a practically ubiquitous digitally-enabled strata to control many tasks, and this may create the phenomenon of a “singularity” – in which humankind effectively cannot even fathom how things are happening anymore and is seemingly outpaced and outthought at every step in every direction by an ‘intelligence’ that appears to be all-knowing, all-present, and all-powerful. But this kind of singularity is fundamentally separated from the light-based edifice behind all things, and from which all things rise. It is hence not a true singularity in the sense of a finite function assuming infinite value, but is fundamentally limited in its scope by virtue of its disconnection from the founts of Life. This does not preclude an AI-based singularity from having massive practical power that can have an enormous destructive or constructive effect on humankind and material life.
What it does mean though is that there is another singularity, a human-founded singularity, the Second Singularity, which can exceed the limits of any AI-based singularity due to its fundamental union with the light-based edifice that is behind and informs all of Life. The possible human-founded singularity, it will be discovered, is one in a long series of naturally occurring though partial-singularities that derive their existence from a fundamental union with the light-based edifice behind all things. Such partial-singularities are characterized by having all the power of the light-edifice behind them, though the emergences in such partial-singularities are not necessarily aware of their oneness with the light-based edifice. In the Second Singularity humans become aware of such oneness, becoming conscious projections animated by a single intelligence, love, and power of which they are a part. It is hence no more the human-level capacity that drives such humans, but the infinite capacities of the one light-based edifice that drives. This book focuses on the mathematics of emergence of these naturally occurring partial-singularities, leading up to the possible human-founded singularity that will endow humankind with the potential for extraordinary capacities.
Pravir’s meta-focus these days is on developing a unified theory and mathematics of organization with applications in a range of complex adaptive systems (CAS).
Pravir is the Head of Organizational Sciences at Zappos.com, and in this capacity is leading the creation and incubation of organizational development technologies, in support of establishing a resilient organization that will withstand the test of time.
In the past he has served as a Founding Member of A.T. Kearney India, a top-tier global consulting company; the Managing Director Advisory Services for BSR, a leading global CSR consulting company; as part of the HR leadership teams at Stanford Hospital & Clinics; leading Pricing Operations at Zappos.com; founding a couple of CAS-related initiatives - Deep Order Technologies and Aurosoorya; and experimenting with various forms of AI earlier in his carrier at ZS Associates and GE, amongst other organizations.
He has a Ph.D. in Technology Management with a focus on Mathematics of Innovation in Complex Adaptive Systems from University of Pretoria, an MBA from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management with a focus on Marketing and Organizational Behavior, an MS in Computer Science from University of Florida with a focus on AI, and a BSE in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
He is the author of a series of books on fractals and organizations , including 'Redesigning the Stock Market' and 'The Fractal Organization', published by SAGE, a leading global academic publisher. He recently authored a six-book series on 'Cosmology of Light' inspired by his research in CAS and is now writing a follow-up series on the implications of "one mathematics" in all things with applications for AI, Quantum Computing, Genetics, and Transhumanism. He has held faculty positions at several institutions of higher learning.
Pravir is a global citizen who has lived, worked, and been educated in many parts of the world.