A civil servant’s notebook on AI, philosophy of mind, and the art of governing 1.4 billion people.
Grounded in Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle, prediction processing, embodied cognition, and attention research. Written as a dialogue rather than a lecture — so the underlying neuroscience stays rigorous, the reading stays plain. Each principle is a small upgrade you can run on your own mind, starting today.
Supports meritorious girls from below-poverty-line families with scholarships, learning materials, and mentoring through Classes 8–12. Organises medical camps for early detection of cancers, diabetes, and other chronic illness. Provides care for elderly persons without adequate family support, complementing existing government schemes.
An open-source small language model trained on agriculture and animal husbandry knowledge — covering crop science, livestock management, veterinary practice, and rural policy. Built with a custom Q&A pipeline, domain-specific fine-tuning, and web-scraped corpora. Designed to be deployable at low compute for use in field-level governance.
Purushottam Basava is an upright career IAS officer, hardworking, honest, and follows processes with absolute due diligence, while at the same time kind, helpful, and humane in approach. He draws his strength from his deep-rooted spiritual moorings.
