“What is happing
to this world order? Why do some people participate and spread acts of terror and
many just support them in their nefarious syndicates?”
“Why can’t all
humans be same which will remove all differences and reasons for crimes and
wars?”
All of us try to
find answers for these questions whenever we look around and see acts of wrong
doing and sufferings of other people. Most of us try to find answers to these
questions in the political or religious realms but these are just excuses and
misinformation spread by few leaders with their own motives.
This book from
Dinesh N. Verma is an endeavour to look for answers for these outside these
commonly held believes. In this book he brings forward a very different perspective
and view point by comparing human nature to animal traits and explains why
these differences exist in real world. It is very common to use animals as
metaphors to describe some attributes of humans, but in this book author beautifully
describes how creator used mix of animal traits to manufacture human beings and
giving them different nature.
The book is a fiction
set up in backdrop of Manufacturing Site where creator develops different recipes
and mixes for different life forms in this universe. Author along with few
other characters are hi-jacked and taken to this site where they are shown and
explained the complete process of human creation. It also highlights the dichotomy
of how gift of brain and power of communication has taken humans out of jungles
and into current world at the same time these two have also taken world to wars
and unimaginable acts of crimes. In current world super powers are not based on
arsenals of nuclear bombs but those who have power of brain and communication. We
all know how fake news is becoming a preferred weapon of all. At one point creator,
author and readers start thinking if the world would have been better if humans
did not had power of communication? Last part of the book focuses on author’s desire
and willingness on taking the message from the divine power to rest of the
world.
Though I have
read very few fiction books but after reading this book I felt that this book is
not very detached from real life. Though the plot is a fiction however the
theories and arguments made in the book are relevant to our real world past,
present and future. With all the development and advances we are making in
artificial intelligence we are in a way trying to create a manufacturing site
visited by the author and others in the book. The scene at Divine R&D
department is very similar to R&D at any firm working on developing
Artificial Intelligence and making robots to think and communicate as human
beings. As humans we are trying to give machines a Brain and power to Communicate.
Although a fiction I feel book also acts as checkpoint for us to do a reality
check and ensure that we as a creator do not end up in same dichotomy as our
creator God Almighty.
