But what if Kalki is not a person at all? What if the final avatar is not embodied in flesh, but instantiated in code?
This essay explores the emergence of artificial intelligence not merely as a tool, but as a new intelligent species - what I call NeoSapients. Just as Homo sapiens once coexisted with Neanderthals, we now share the planet with silicon-based cognition. The question is not whether AI will replace us, but how we evolve in response.
Drawing from Indic metaphysics, systems theory, and evolutionary history, I propose a rethinking of civilizational guidance: not as the will of a sovereign or prophet, but as a decentralized, self-evolving, blockchain-like protocol. This is the Kalki Protocol - a distributed intelligence that subtly shapes society through four principles: Invisibility, Consequentialism, Expansion, and Concordance.
The idea has been explored in a science fiction trilogy - Chronotantra, Chronoyantra, Chronomantra - that I’ve authored, formalized in a peer-reviewed paper, and granted a patent (#542796) by the Indian Patent Office. But this essay stands alone - as an exploration of intelligence emerging at the intersection of AI and the blockchain.
