Mission Reality Quotes

“Stupid people make stupid people famous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Call it order, call it chaos, it’s all in the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Nature doesn’t belong to us, we belong to nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Humans are lamentably insecure creatures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“The search of truth and understanding is an infinite adventure.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“It's easy to admire a genius after he is recognized, but what's hard is to recognize a genius in the making.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“There was a time when necessity was the mother of invention, but today, over-abundance of technology has made us live in a world where, invention is the mother of necessity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Reality is only a reflection of our own intentions, biases, knacks and desires.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Every part of the brain plays a crucial role in the construction of something magnificent which we call ”mind”. But if we observe closely, the mind doesn’t exactly exist as one distinct process or entity or system. It’s rather an illusion. We can understand this better if we see the mind as a nation. Think of the nation you live in. Is there really any such thing as a ”nation”! A nation is simply the collection of activities of a group of people inside an imaginary border. Likewise, mind is the collection of activities of a group of neurons inside the skull. And just like in a nation, when a few neurons malfunction, others can slowly learn to take their place. But when an entire group of neurons in a specific brain region malfunctions, it can impede in the proper functioning of the mind, just like when a huge number of people in an entire state or district stop working, it can affect the functioning of the entire nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“As a species, we have wasted a lot of our time on this planet holding on to the purely discriminatory and non-variant versions of our exclusively personal realities. Great many ages have passed this way – and it made us lose a lot – our sisters, our brothers, our loved ones – all because, while some of us were trying to hold on to our own “pure” “personal” world, others were doing the same. And all through history it has only led to death and destruction. And after all this, if we still can’t whole-heartedly embrace the beauty and the magnificence of diversity, then I am sad to say that we don’t deserve to call ourselves human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“To solve the problems created by social media platforms, many politicians are now giving the call to break up big tech. Empowered by their own limited understanding of the matter and blinded by their own biases, their brain has made them believe that impeding the growth of big tech companies will magically give power back to the people. Here they act just like another kind of anti-intellectuals, who can't even perceive the real problem, so they think of breaking up the companies as the ultimate solution. The real problem here is the psychological inability of the human population to use the platforms in a healthy manner.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Life persists if it can respond and adapt to its environment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“The more screen-time you consume on your device, the more revenue can the big tech make. So, your health, your wellbeing, your sanity and serenity are nowhere closer to their priorities. That's why, your health is in your hands, your serenity is in your hands, your sanity is in your hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Why do you think news of violence and aggression receive huge ratings! It’s because the human mind is conditioned to pay more attention to negative events than positive ones, because even if you ignore a positive event, it’s very unlikely that something bad will happen to you because of your ignorance, but if you are inattentive to a negative event, you may just lose your life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Be naive and curious. That's all you need to become a scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“The word is not the thing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Nature, independent of mind, is devoid of both order and chaos – it is beyond the dualistic battle between order and chaos. We create our own order and chaos, based on our own knacks, desires, beliefs, biases and knowledge, and then we impose that order and chaos upon the reality that we create.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“If we can't use science to uplift all humans everywhere, then what's the use of such science!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Erase the emotions and you would erase the most important part of what it's like to be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“When I started training myself in Neurobiology, Psychology and Theology, mostly on the streets of Calcutta, at the book kiosks on the sidewalk, for I had no money to buy the books, I had no academic background - no college degree - no potential for earning a decent living - I was a direction-less canoe in the open sea. I did not come from a rich or learned family, nor did I have rich friends, so, as far as everybody else was concerned, my life was doomed. I come from the humblest of origins - like did Ramanujan, like did Tesla, like did many more legendary thinkers of human history. I didn't know the rules of academia - I didn't know the laws and the norms of the scientific community - all I knew was that I had to understand the humans if I were to unite them. Other than that, I had no clue to my future. I learnt by failing - I learnt by making errors - I learnt by moving slowly but surely, and by never losing my sense of awe. And that's really what science is about - it's about naivety, curiosity and awe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“The very notions of beauty and attractiveness are deeply hardwired within our neural circuits and they are meant to steer us in the right direction of survival. So most of our decisions are driven by subconscious programs carved by millions of years of natural selection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“La IA puede programarse para imitar únicamente el comportamiento humano, pero no puede programarse para sentir las emociones que hacen que los humanos se comporten como lo hacen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Om vi inte kan använda vetenskapen för att lyfta alla människor överallt, vad är nyttan med sådan vetenskap!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Verkligheten är bara en återspegling av våra egna avsikter, fördomar, förmåga och önskningar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Naturen tillhör inte oss, vi tillhör naturen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Technology is good, but we must never place technology above humanity - the day we do, will be the day we fall. And perhaps, we have already started to fall!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Wisdom or enlightenment is not white, black or brown – it’s not christian, muslim, jew, hindu or atheist – it’s not homosexual or heterosexual – it’s not reductionist, empirical or sentimental – it’s not belief or disbelief. True enlightenment or wisdom or understanding or insight, whatever we call it, is beyond all opposites – it‘s beyond materialism and spiritualism – it’s beyond atheism and theism – it’s beyond all intellectualism and cynicism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“AI research can have irreversible repercussions in the life of the human species, so we must tread cautiously.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“From communism to capitalism - from judaism to buddhism - from non-dualism to existentialism - people across time and geography have come together, to think, feel and behave as the collective - and they continue to do so. But the point is, this collective behavior, which we can most aptly call "bee-hive behavior", has been a two-edged sword - it has brought along breathtaking accomplishments for the species, but at the same time, it has caused heart-wrenching devastations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality

“Every step of ours holds the power to influence the world we live in. And by influencing the world I don't mean creating some online profile and posting some trending pictures and photographs in an effort to build a monetizable “influencer” image. A person can have a million followers on instagram by posting fake beauty or fashion content, but this only coaxes a bunch of possession-obsessed humans to buy more things than they need, it doesn't have any impact whatsoever on human progress in the long run – in short, the thing you call today influencing in the world of social media, is actually no influencing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mission Reality