Category: Thoughts / Thinking

Are doctors a tad boring?


What happens when a doctor defects to economics and the humanities — and then asks an AI whether doctors are a tad boring? The answers, from both Claude and Google AI, reveal something deeper than professional stereotypes. Claude argues that medical training, by design, rewards convergent thinking — getting the right diagnosis — over the exploratory, question-generating mind that the humanities cultivate. Years spent in a closed intellectual world produce a certain narrowness, though brilliant exceptions like Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande remind us it is medical culture, not doctors as people, that deserves the critique. Google AI, characteristically, opts for balance: doctors are not boring, merely exhausted. But perhaps the most honest insight lies in the afterthought the questioner himself appends — that his intense dislike of medicine may be colouring his perception of those who stayed. Self-knowledge, as ever, is the beginning of wisdom.

What Consciousness Really Is—And Why the More You Study It, the Less You Know


What if the thing you understand least is the very thing happening inside you right now? In a wide-ranging conversation with science writer Michael Pollan, Ezra Klein explores one of philosophy’s oldest, and most stubbornly unsolved, puzzles: consciousness itself.

Pollan spent five years researching his new book, diving into everything from plant anesthesia experiments to psychedelic trips to Zen caves in New Mexico. What he found wasn’t clarity; it was deeper, more beautiful mystery. The more rigorously scientists try to pin consciousness down, the more it slips away.

This conversation covers the surprising science of how thoughts actually form (hint: your body usually knows before your brain does), why children may be more conscious than adults, how mind-wandering is secretly your most productive mental state, and what philosophers mean when they say consciousness might be a universal field rather than something your brain generates.

It also asks urgent questions about the modern world: Are our smartphones quietly shrinking the richness of our inner lives? And what would it mean to reclaim sovereignty over your own mind?

A rare conversation that leaves you knowing less, and wondering far more.

Giving Myself Carte Blanche


What does it mean to give oneself carte blanche without becoming irresponsible? In this reflective piece, I explore a deeply personal decision: to spend most of the day in deliberate solitude. Not as withdrawal. Not as rebellion. But as a conscious turning inward.

Rooted in the wisdom of Nisargadatta Maharaj, this practice centers on abiding in the simple yet profound sense of “I am.” Beyond roles, beyond relationships, beyond achievements—what remains when one rests in bare awareness?

This inward freedom does not violate the moral boundary articulated by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” Instead, it is an experiment in inner sovereignty—an attempt to discover whether sustained attention to the “I am” can transform not only solitude, but relationship, responsibility, and presence itself.

Is solitude an escape, or the highest form of engagement with truth?

Poetry, Essays & Reflections – Visit My Amazon Author Page


I’m happy to share that my books now have a dedicated home on Amazon through my Author Page. This space brings together my diverse writings—poems, sayings, essays, and reflective pieces that explore consciousness, human experience, and the inner journey. Readers can browse my published works, read descriptions, and stay connected as new books are added.
For many, my writing has served as a quiet invitation to pause, reflect, and rediscover clarity. Having an Author Page allows me to reach those readers more easily and continue that conversation. If you’ve followed my work or would like to explore it, I invite you to visit the page, bookmark it, and share it with anyone who may resonate with this blend of poetry and philosophy.
Here is the link to my Amazon Author Page:
https://www.amazon.com/author/samar