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Yet another articulation of the value of science [Posted: 2009-02-06, 20:13:55 (IST, +05:30)]

Real processes in the real world are defined among neural networks like ours in terms of large vocabularies and correspondingly complex grammars defined by the underlying scientific tradition(s) given us by the giants who are truly the luminescent cadaver under our alleged laurels. Sincere weaklings classify these hierarchies of meaning as jargon, and the death-worthy regurgitate un-/misunderstood strings from such languages to appear noteworthy among their janitorial kin.

The true aspirant of vivek (conscientious discrimination), however, attacks the very foundations of one's own apparent claim to superiority, precisely to rid oneself of all that is merely "apparent" or "believed". Often such courageous toil leads to a deep bijection between the personally perceived and the popularly believed. Such an achievement, in itself, is worthy of being called the culmination of an intellectual life. Occasionally, it leads to the breakup and reorganization of that photo-voltaic corpse of unconnected beliefs into genuinely weighty connections, i.e. to novel understanding. Such happenings are often mis-articulated as "supernatural enlightenment" by the sincere weakling and the death-worthy pretender alike.

A neural network that "believes in oneself" without the requisite conviction of being ever-ready for judgment by all and sundry is logically obligated to find a spoonful of pigeon-shit to drown its own over-existence in. This, in slightly inebriated terms, is the injection from my mind (the conceptual space within which I exist) into the value of Science.

~ bows to the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster ~

Community for DLF Express Greens (Manesar / New Gurgaon) [Posted: 2009-01-06, 22:54:42 (IST, +05:30)]

For those with genuine interest in the DLF Express Greens (I and II) project in Manesar, there is a newly formed community on Orkut. I am hoping that Allottees / Applicants / Owners join this community so we can collaborate to get the best services from DLF for this project. I think this would be a good forum to discuss our concerns, share information, and thus do a better job securing our investment.

The Vanity in Masochism [Posted: 2007-09-11, 09:04:52 (IST, +05:30)]

Kaaga sab tan khaaiyo mera chun chun khaiyo maas
Do naina mat khaiyo mohe piya milan ki aas

The claim that "I" is more than the physical. The claim to a love that resides entirely in the eyes that await it. The claim to possess a pain that is greater than any -- physical or imaginable. The audacity to state readiness for these claims to be tested. The vanity in the masochism that is love is Sufi poetry.

The attraction gene [Posted: 2007-09-10, 23:37:00 (IST, +05:30)]

Another supporting example for the consciousness of the Whole. Attraction is fractal. The Whole is attracted to Itself.

Ooty trip [Posted: 2007-08-04, 20:02:14 (IST, +05:30)]

A stream on the way back

Abstract Consciousness [Posted: 2006-08-20, 11:35:52 (IST, +05:30)]

A swarm of a thousand selves, each with a hue and glow of its own creates a brilliant dance, like the shimmering of a gentle lake in the early morning sun. A diamond dazzles but for a moment, and indeed that ephemeral dazzle is the diamond. "Diamond" is not a stone. It is a concept, a name for something much greater. As we go up in the ladder of abstraction, a diamond is brilliance. Abstractions interacting lead to yet "higher" abstractions, and from the instantaneous we progress towards the eternal. From a shimmer to brilliance, from attraction to love, from thought to understanding, from existence to consciousness, from consciousness to meaning. Semantics reside in relations between symbols. And these relations are themselves symbols. Syntax defines structure, and when a structure is able to represent parts or the whole of itself, the structure gains intrinsic meaning, that is, it acquires an awareness of self.

The dance is continuous, flowing. Watching it in parts, one sees abrupt changes, but from the right level of abstraction, it feels natural, like the flutter of a light white skirt in a gentle breeze, complementing the serenity of her calm face on a worriless morning.

It is when I see this form of Her in the continuous dance of my Self, that I give the name "bliss". And there does not exist any enlightenment beyond it.

I am the shimmering lake, and in that instance I am It. Eternal, Formless, Limitless, Conscious of my Infinitude.

Maati Kudam Karendi Yaar [Posted: 2006-07-12, 02:37:41 (IST, +05:30)]

Yet more blasts. The dance continues. Lives are lost. Initial fear, followed by frenzy, followed by Mumbaikars showing resilience, proactiveness and unity, followed by passive anger at the state of politics, too many words, too little action.

Assassinate all suspects, empower RAW. Finish the follow-through atleast. The soil dances a meaningless dance. What is the meaning of all this you ask? No meaning, only syntax, and whatever meaningless meaning comes from complex interplay of syntax.

Kudos and my condolences to all Mumbaikars. The show must go on, and the spirit must soar.

Getting Value out of the Investment Game [Posted: 2006-05-23, 00:54:11 (IST, +05:30)]

If your trust is based in fundamentals, if your eggs are spread wide across diverse baskets, if every entity whose stock you hold produces and sells something that you'd buy with confidence if you had the money and the need/desire, if the rise of your portfolio has been gradual and sustained, if you spend your own time researching and investing at least a good part of your own money, then market crashes are a time to buy, cautiously picking the birds that are pulled down for a moment but look strong enough to take flight soon.

Investment is a delicate dance, performed on the edge of a cliff in sporadic storms. If thy fingers are nimble, play on, and make a show to remember. What value do stock market investors add? Their collective mind, evaluating our production mechanisms. Stock markets act as Quality Assurance measures taken to ensure healthy economic growth.

My Little Paradise [Posted: 2006-05-17, 18:31:03 (IST, +05:30)]

The little known village is in a little known lap of the Himalayas. It is called Nunoori Behli, the local pronunciation for Nunoor Valley. Sainj, a tributary to the Beas flows right in front of my land. Plum , Almond and Apple grow wild here, littering the ground. The local neighbors are simple people. Living in raised wooden homes that creek even under the lightest feet. The sun comes up from behind the thick, lush foliage, pouring drops of radiance over this valley of slow life contrasted against the rush of the river. The water is pure, drinkable straight from fast river, sweet to taste.

The short way to reach is a wooden rope-bridge that gets washed away every few years because of flooding. When the bridge is not there, the walk is about 4 kilometers. 4 kilometers of blissful strolling on foot-wide meandering paths drawn by the erasable pencils of local feet.

There is peace here. My idea of paradise. We own a small piece of land. Some day I'll build a small home here, for the times when nothing but solitude gives solace.

Gender Equality and Dignity of Labour [Posted: 2006-05-08, 16:21:37 (IST, +05:30)]

One of the most pertinent issues pertaining to gender equality is who engages in what vocation. Before equality of social status based on equal working opportunities is aimed for, one has to aim for a change in how people think about vocations.

For example, being a master chef is not as "respectable" as being an engineer. We club our ambitions based on how much money a particular vocation gets us. While this is somewhat understandable in a country like India (where the primary concern has been bread-winning), this difference of perception regarding different vocations leads to some of them being classified as "unambitious" or "lower".

This is so to a lesser extent in countries like the U.S., where dignity of labour is (somewhat) higher compared to here, for all vocations.

Once our attitude towards the "status" we associate with various vocations changes to one of equal respect for skilful execution of whatever vocation one is interested in, it will be easier for people to be satisfied working many jobs that we currently consider "odd".

What happens now is that males, being more assertive by nature, unilaterally make the decision of being the bread earners, because there is a "shame" in doing house work for the male. If dignity of labour is achieved, such a shame will diminish, and everyone will be more willing to take up a variety of new kinds of jobs.

I believe a good cook is more respectable than an average doctor or engineer or businessman. respect should come from how good you are at whatever you do, rather than from what you do, howevermuch inept you might be at it.

The problem is not that women are confined to do house chores, but that house chores are looked down upon as menial jobs.

I don't have an exact solution for the problem of raising dignity of labour overall, but i strongly believe that in dignity of labour lies the answer to gender-, and even caste- equality.

A connected point is: you'll always find that there is relatively more gender equality in economically developed nations. Why is this so? Because even the so-called "menial" jobs pay quite well. Chefs and often even janitors come and go in their own cars and have decent homes. I've seen this first hand. It is a pitty that I have to use expressions like "even janitors use cars" as if they are not entitled to. This is not to say that developed nations are ideal. Stereotyping of vocational preferences is very common there too.

The point is that once a certain job has respect (through it being paid well for, or otherwise), it ceases to be thought of as a job as menial as it is seen as in less fortunate circumstances. So people in general are more willing to take up these vocations, and so things like homemaking are seen as respectable occupations. Then, all (men and women) find homemaking (or cookery, or interior design etc.) a more satisfying occupation. In this case the division of labour will be based more on ability rather than the status it brings to people.

Since abilities differ between genders to some extent, even though there might be a statistical skewedness in which gender takes up which kinds of jobs, both genders will be happy, because they will have chosen what they are good at, and doing that they will be able to earn and maintain respect, which really is what "equality" is all about. Mutual respect.

Scepticism (versus?) Traditionalism [Posted: 2006-05-07, 09:55:10 (IST, +05:30)]

Science (and analytic philosophy) - the forte of the sceptics - starts with its own set of axioms for which no proof is possible. Yet science (for the most part) tries hard to show that whatever it assumes is falsifiable at least in principle. The difference between this and religious tradition is that religion does not attempt to show its assumptions as falsifiable. In fact, it asserts the infallibility of its axioms and sticks by them.

The question is, given that the above is the difference between how sceptics and how traditionalists respectively think, which tool is useful when (if at all)?

On the Proposed Increase in Educational Reservations [Posted: 2006-04-20, 23:44:24 (IST, +05:30)]

Everyone is talking about the proposed increase in seat reservations for "Other Backward Castes" at the premiere educational institutions in India.

There are enough people trying to attack reservations and I'll not go into all that. I'll simply give an alternative solution to the disparities in Indian socio-economics, and argue that the alternative is better than the current reservation system.

1. Concentrate on primary education. Make the fee structure depend on household per capita income (richer parents pay more). Using the excess money that is gotten from rich kids, make room for kids from economically and socially downtrodden families. These EXTRA seats in PRIMARY EDUCATION can be partially reserved on a caste/region basis. The excess money from rich families is used to give free education to those below the poverty line.

2. After this, all children go through the same education, same exams and so forth. And the subsidies and fee-less seats continue.

3. Bring tuition centres under the government's LOOSE control, create a "Coaching Centre Tax" for kids with a particular threshold family income - the rich kids. The money from this tax is used to give "coaching scholarships" to economically and socially backward students). Since all get equal opportunities early on this way, they can (and should) compete fairly and squarely.

4. At institutes of higher learning, again, competition for ADMISSION should be purely merit based (see above points for assurance that all have a fair opportunity to do well in entrance exams). Once admitted, the fee structure again depends on the student's family financial
background. Rich kids pay more, and the money is used to fund THOSE poor kids who, given the above fair chance, have been able to secure seats based on merit.

Advantages
1. This is easily enforceable because the Income Tax department can provide detailed income records that can be used to determine exact fee structures.

2. If a majority of poor people are of "lower" castes (I don't have data on this, assuming it is so...), they automatically benefit from the FINANCIAL reservations as described above.

3. All who graduate from quality institutions can be trusted to have atleast the ABILITY to build the nation well. (Merit is preserved)

4. Rich people of "lower" castes cannot exploit the system.

Disadvantages (compared to current reservation system):
I can't think of any. Maybe you can point out.

Remember, those meritorious enough to deserve to study at our premiere institutions ARE a minority. The task is to find all these meritorious ones from all backgrounds and encourage them. Rather than to discourage the ones who can readily prove their mettle already.

Beautiful Buddhism [Posted: 2006-04-12, 05:36:12 (IST, +05:30)]

Came across a wonderful article about buddhist thought on karma and free will. It is interesting to note that Buddhism, like some other schools of "eastern thought" does not make sharp distinctions between conscious beings and unconscious beings, it recognizes the greyness of existence. In our context, this means that the free will that buddhism posits is not only present for humans or the "higher order animals/beings" but is present even in a stone, albeit to a much lesser extent.

This is increasingly being acknowledged by areas of science like quantum chaos (on the fundamental level of the role of chance and emergent complexity in creating macroscopic physical phenomena), and through our understanding of neuroscience and the dissolution of the mind-body seperation. I think it is pertinent to reinforce the concept of "free will" as a broader concept than it is usually viewed as.

Thus buddhist free will has more of a "natural" flavor than say "abrahamic free-will" which is denied even to other mammals. Physics is developing a model called Quantum Chaos that seems to explain how free will can from purely physical events, rather than from some esoteric "soul" concept or any necessity for the existence of a "God".

This also pertains to the question of how free will can manifest within dependent origination and a creationless universe, which at first glance to a limited mind might seem impossible.

This kind of free will does not entertain the possibility of a "self" seperate from the "environment", and thus is not under "my" control (and in the strictest sense is not really "free" will). If this is so, then what is the importance of ethics itself? It all boils down to a "maybe" then. So "here is a set of ethical guidelines, maybe they are useful"; is that all buddhism would say? I see nothing wrong in that, in fact a very mature abstinence from dogmatism. More a pragmatic "take it or leave it" approach than an attempt to argue right and wrong in black and white.

Falsifiability of the claim of the existence of a ToE [Posted: 2006-04-07, 20:59:58 (IST, +05:30)]

Consider the belief that the universe is governed by some complicated probabilistic algorithm. Is this belief falsifiable ? It is not falsifiable if the said algorithm is not instantiated .

Blabberings about Life, Existence, Reality [Posted: 2006-03-30, 05:00:03 (IST, +05:30)]

"my "understanding"" of "life":

first a few preliminary definitions:
+ mind: the activity of a brain. in the same sense as software running on a computer.
+ understanding: a model existing in a mind. in the same sense as the "data" part of software. there are no exact bounderies between mind and model. the sole purpose of the mind is to create and maintain data-structures that we call "concepts".
+ my understanding: the complete collection of concepts contained in the mind running on the brain that is connected to the fingers that are typing this via certain specific kind of cells. cells constitute a class of mass-energy structures. This is a working definition. The concept of "I" or "me" is different for different people. It is contingent on what you define "cells" as, and plug that into my above definition.

"Life" then is the maximal common set of rules or conditions that a certain class of mass-energy structures obey or satisfy. These mass-energy structures exhibit certain emergent patterns that are so similar to the patterns in our own history, that to some extent we identify ourselves as members of the same "family" or class. "Life" is a word (symbol) we use to denote the above-mentioned class. The task of defining life is equivalent to the task of defining the exact boundaries of the above class. This ultimately, depends on the mind that is contemplating the question. for example I might be willing to include virii as living organisms, while others may not. this difference of opinion translates into a difference in the definition of life.

If you really wanted to ask the "reason why" life exists, that is a whole different question. I'd answer that it is a statistical inevitability, that it exists because of the probabilistic physical laws. Rest assured that I do not claim that we KNOW all these physical laws. I use them in my explanation without instantiating them.

If you then ask me the reason why these laws are the way they are, you are really asking me "what is their cause" (that's why we answer "why" with "because"). In answer to that, i'd say that cause is a temporal concept, and has no meaning independent of the concept of time. Since space-time and thus the physical laws governing space-time contain the concept of time, you're really asking me what the cause of "time" is. This is a meaningless question, because cause can only exist within time. Time just IS, atleast it has no "cause", and so "why does time exist?" CANNOT have a mentally satisfactory answer.

If you wanted to ask whether there is anything more to life than mass-energy? I'd say yes, that something is "structure". it is not just mass-energy, but a WAY in which some mass-energy is organized within space-time.
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Although I believe explanation in terms of physical concepts is usually more elegant, I do not automatically discredit things like "spirit", "soul", or even "god" or "God". I just think most of these concepts are easily understood as purely physical phenomena. These are just concepts; models/data-structures that our mind(s) create(s) in reaction to observation; no more or less real than any other concepts. "Intrinsic" or "external" are really cosmetic terms. They depend on how you define "observer". Can the observer be unambiguously seperated from the observed?

There is no cause without effect, and vice versa. Cause if and only if effect. Ultimately it is just a global, distributed, probabilistic (maybe even non-deterministic) algorithm that makes pain / pleasure / conceptualization / philosophy / existence / etc. statistically inevitable. This algorithm did not "begin", it always was. What is it's cause? Only things that have beginnings have causes.
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That the universe had a "beginning" poses the following problem to me: what caused it to "begin"? Whatever that was, did it not "exist"? If it existed, by your essentiality of "beginning", it must have begun. if "time began", what caused it to "begin"? Was that cause not an event? An event makes sense only in a temporal framework, so time existed before time began? Ad infinitum.

Even if the big bang was a finite event in time, it does not imply that there was no universe "before" that.

Personally I think the big bang can be viewed as the logarithmic (or similarly curved) shape of space-time, rather than some isolated event. In this interpretation, we are still "in the big-bang", just that we are in the relatively horizontal region.

Of Self Neglect and Seperatism [Posted: 2006-02-11, 03:58:37 (IST, +05:30)]

The curfew and police shootout at a crowd of 20,000 people is a shame for us.

A gathering of 20,000 cannot be organized without reason. That such a large crowd had gathered (even for violent purposes) suggests that there is something wrong with the administration there. 20,000 people together cannot be "terrorists". When will the government wake up to the graveness of conditions in North-East India? I hope the rest of India joins me in apologizing for tolerating a socio-political climate in which such things are permissible. I wish something can be done soon.

We are axing our own feet with our complacence. Let's condemn the actions of the police there. To solve a problem, we first must find out the cause of the problem, and in this case our negligence along with the brutality of officers selected by our elected people is the cause. Let's suggest ways of steady, sustainable recovery for the North-East.

Seperatist tendencies arise because of mass negligence. Let us correct our mistakes.

2 cents on the IIPM Farce [Posted: 2006-02-10, 06:26:21 (IST, +05:30)]

In light of the recent and ongoing initiative by concerned bloggers, I think it is relevant to add that the Delhi campus much touted by IIPM has no swimming pool at its main premises. The swimming pool that they so loudly advertised is in fact located in the Mehrauli area of Delhi, on land that has been allotted for a farm house. The commercial use of this land (non-accredited institutions are legally commercial ventures) is unauthorised and thus part of the Delhi campus of IIPM is illegitimate unless a special permitting order is produced by IIPM.

This part of their "campus" is located about 6 kilometers from the main IIPM buildings and is not open to students on all weekdays. Busses full of IIPM students are brought here on predetermined days (usually twice to thrice a week). The swimming pool inside is by no standards adequate for any serious swimmer.

It is amazing how a personal farm can be advertised as part of a campus. Even its use as a campus for a non-accredited institution is a crime by the Indian constitution. But alas, the constitution cannot enforce itself.

This blog is for the scores of students who, unable to secure positions at any of the well regarded institutions of the country, might be considering IIPM as an option. My advice, as of many others, is to beware of institutions like IIPM and Amity.

Masochistic Spirituality [Posted: 2006-01-10, 11:19:34 (IST, +05:30)]

bhaTTi waaliye chambe diye Daaliye
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de
taennu devaan hanjuaa.n da bhaaDaa
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

bhaTTi waaliye chambe diye daaliye
peedaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

chhetti chhetti karee.n mei.n taa.n jaaNaa baDee door nee
jitthe mere haaniyaa daa Tur geyaa poor nee
Oss pind daa suNee daa raah maaDaa
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

bhaTTi waaliye chambe diye Daaliye
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de
taennu devaa.n hanjuaa.n da bhaaDaa
peedaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

sau.n gaiyaa.n hawaawaa.n kar kar virlaap nee
taareyaa.n nu chaD geyaa mathaa mathaa taap nee
jaaiyaa.n sahaa.n deedaa russ geyaa laaDaa
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

bhaTTi waaliye chambe diye Daaliye
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de
taennu devaa.n hanjuaa.n da bhaaDaa
peedaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

nee dukkhaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de
peeDaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de
lae dukkhaa.n daa paraagaa bhunn de

-- Shiv Kumar Batalvi

There is a pain in Punjabi poetry that I have not been able to find elsewhere. This is for my masochistic cravings...

A Pleasant New Year's Eve [Posted: 2006-01-07, 08:45:55 (IST, +05:30)]

Got a job today. With the Server Technologies group at Oracle. The work is up my alley, distributed computing and online algorithms, Linux and Java. One worry less. Oracle. Vodka with tandoori murgh tonight. Happy New Year!

Atman, brahman and action [Posted: 2005-12-20, 02:21:25 (IST, +05:30)]

If ALL IS brahman, (not part of brahman, but brahman itself), then ultimately it doesn't matter whether mAyA is real or unreal, because either way, it is brahman (just like "I am" or "you are").

Remember that brahman already exists. it doesn't "come into being" upon the attainment of enlightenment. so in the absolute sense, it doesn't matter whether one attains enlightenment or not, because one already IS brahman. but it is worthy to note that enlightenment is NOT the attainment of brahmanhood, but is the realization of the fact of universal (and thus self), eternal brahmanhood. enlightenment, along with understanding, also gives the gut feeling which elludes us in our "current state".

In the real sense, all these actions mean nothing. asking why we are deluded in the first place is asking for a cause (which is mAyA since causality itself is mAyA) of mAyA within mAyA. mAyA doesn't "cease to exist" upon enlightenment. if such was the case we would all have been enlightened the moment the first being became enlightened. mAyA remains as it is even for the enlightened one. it is just that now the mukta knows and feels oneness that is brahman and mAyA and him/her.

Seeking enlightenment is an action which is pure mAyA. but it is considered the highest action (comparatives can only be used within mAyA) because it leads to a complete understanding (and experiencing) of the ultimate Truth, the nonduality of Atman and brahman.

Access 2k5, Modern School [Posted: 2005-12-19, 21:54:16 (IST, +05:30)]

I usually take care of the programming events at Modern School's (my alma mater) ACCESS, the computer symposium. The event was held in November. about 45 schools from Delhi participated. I always feel nice going back to Access. Organizing it when I was in school gave me the confidence I have.This year's event saw some quality participation. Due to a minor goof-up, the junior level questions were harder than those for the senior level. But no harm done, in the end the best programmers won. Visit the school website

GoogleRock [Posted: 2005-12-19, 21:15:47 (IST, +05:30)]

Yet more Wows for Google. It is amazing to see the kind of innovation they are into. Just installed their bloggers' comments plugin for firefox. This is what I call context building! This is evolution happening right under our noses. Google gives me wet dreams.

If you like this blog, do visit my web at www.adichad.com and link to it ;)

Publishing Via E-mail [Posted: 2005-12-18, 10:54:57 (IST, +05:30)]

Blogger has this cool feature that lets you publish content to your blog by sending an e-mail to a specific address. This post is to test that.

Today I also installed MagpieRSS on my website, it fetches and shows this blog on my website.

Rain Rain Go Away [Posted: 2005-12-18, 01:07:41 (IST, +05:30)]

Chennai is going crazy. It's been raining continuously for three days again now. Close to 40 people died in a stampede at a flood relief camp in the city. I tried writing my first OS yesterday. Made my computer do some really weird stuff. Hopefully today I'll get "HelloWorld OS" right.

Objectivism on Charity [Posted: 2005-12-16, 10:55:44 (IST, +05:30)]

In objectivism there is no place for charity, but there is a place for Symbiosis. There is no obligation to help, but one can (and usually would) help if it is an investment. Such is the society that Galt and his worthy contemporaries create in Atlas Shrugged. There is the supremeness of the Self, but it is supported by a firm fairness.

Charity is an opium that benifits only those suffering from the painful guilt of mooching, cheating. It does not help anyone in the medium or long runs for sure.

A practising objectivist has no guilt to wash, and thus does not need to give charity. An objectivist will live by his sweat or die in "honor".

Although it may not be the street dwellers' fault to be living on the streets, their existence does not obligate the better-to-do to give them charity. the key word is obligation.

An objectivist might try this much (if he/she sees potential): ask the begger/demander of charity if he wants work (people can usually always find something worthwile for someone to do for them) The reaction to this offer is a clear indicator of the worthiness of a person to survive as a human being on earth.

There is also recognition for biological limitations. If a being has the potential to excel in ANYTHING, an objectivist would have the keen eye to see this potential, and there is always a place for excellence.

A man without limbs can use his brains. A man without a healthy brain would fall at the fringes of Rand's philosophy. But I do not believe this example breaks her no-charity postulate. Such a "mentally special" person can (with "help" from his kin) contribute to the development of neural/cognitive sciences.

Every entity has a positive purpose from which it derives the right to exist. This purpose is determined by a combination of physical and attitudinal factors. begging ofcourse, is not a positive "purpose", as it is parasitic in nature, not symbiotic.

Would an objectivist give a morsel to save someone's life? the answer depends on the objectivist's perspective of the receiver of this gift: will the receiver, having taken my gift, exist on as a worthy contributor to me and himself? becoming self sufficient AND rewarding me for my "kindness"? if so, then my giving is not charity at all, it is investment.

If not, even if I do give charity, it is going to be useless, a waste of my resources, and the gain of no one. A purposeless being can acquire purpose by being converted to ashes/soil. then it provides the nutrients for plants, supporting the food cycle.