Monday, July 01, 2024

AIs may wonder if we could possibly be conscious

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

7 hours ago — ... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Aspire hopes to inspire, educate, and empower individuals across all walks of life and diverse spiritual paths to a greater ...
Words of Sri Aurobindo Read by Neela.

[B] The Vindication of the World: Essays Engaging with Stephen Phillips

M KeatingMR Dasti - 2024 - books.google.com
64 days ago - … Vedāntic engagements with the Upaniṣads (Aurobindo and Śańkara especially) and … ritual performance (conduct) and study of the Vedas (knowledge), so that he would …

[PDF] Metaphor and Poetic Expression in the Poetry of Sri Aurobindo

R Majumder - 2024 - academia.edu
62 days ago - … , Sri Aurobindo engaged deeply in aesthetics, poetics, and Vedic and Upanishadic … a contemporary analysis of Sri Aurobindo's poetry. His philosophical contributions …

[PDF] Harmonizing Jurisprudence: A Quest For Ethical Legal Practice Through The Integration Of Indic Civilization Values Into Legal Education

S Singh - Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 2024 - kuey.net
60 days ago - … In his 1948 edition titled Mahabharata and Ramayana, Sri Aurobindo … the Vedic age established. While it is true that we are unable to implement every component of Vedic …

The contemporary critical approaches to Indian epics primarily mani-fest an inclination to analyze the texts from the theoretical perspectives of Western models of class …

S Amin - Indian Classical Literature: Critical Essays, 2024 - books.google.com
70 days ago - … Mitra and Varuna in the Rig Veda, the idea of an alliance … In Rig Veda, the gods Mitra and Varuna have been hailed … Aurobindo: 49). The juxtaposition of the contradictory …

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V Vellaichamy - SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR … - lokmanyamahavidyalaya.org
67 days ago - Since 1930 onwards the trio of Indian writers like RK Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao had produced literally work depicting old tradition and contemporary issues …

Feminist Interdisciplinary Approaches: Introduction: Sharmila Rege's Contribution to the Field of Sociology

S Kamble - Dalit Counter-publics and the Classroom - taylorfrancis.com
68 days ago - … This ideology has required unquestioning obedience to the Vedas and tradition, and this is seen as spiritually necessary. As a consequence, there have always existed …

Dalit Studies as Pedagogical Practice: Claiming More Than Just a'Little Place'in the Academia

V Geetha, U Chakravarti - Dalit Counter-publics and the …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
68 days ago - … the emancipatory non-Vedic materialist traditions and … turn usually to Gandhi, Aurobindo, and Nehru and rarely to … with their focus on the Vedic, economistic class, or an

David Blake Willis, Professor of

G Ravindran - api.taylorfrancis.com
70 days ago - … Giri also discusses some of the limitations of Habermasian discourse ethics such as its emphasis on rationality and engages in a dialogue with Sri Aurobindo for spiritual …

Neil Dalal

A Vedānta - The Vindication of the World: Essays Engaging with …, 2024 - books.google.com
64 days ago - … Veda loses its ajñāta-jñāpaka status. If no other epistemic instrument confirms the Vedic … to understand the nondualist idea of the Veda through a modern analogy, which is …

[PDF] The Forbidden Turn: Decentering Modern Subjectivity by Integrating Animal and Mystic Affects

BS Bhogal - academia.edu
62 days ago - … But the mystic Aurobindo had, between 1914 and 1920, noted a four-fold structure: “knowledge by identity, a knowledge by intimate direct contact, a knowledge by …

The Vedic concept of work ethic and its relevance to 21st century competencies

IMGS UntaraNM Sumaryani… - … : International Journal of …, 2024 - journal-iasssf.com
62 days ago - … on rituals are minimal in the Vedic Chess. Because the Vedas are energy, flowing life … The Vedas teach to live well and achieve the highest goal, as the following mandate …

[PDF] Relevance of Western School of Philosophy in the Present Education System of Indian

B Borkakoty - ijhssm.org
61 days ago - … The current education system of India is constructed upon the base which is formed through the Vedic education system, the Buddhist as well as Islamic education system, …

[B] Principles of Education

K SWARGIARY - 2024 - books.google.com
60 days ago - Welcome to the Gauhati University Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUGP) Syllabus for the 1st Semester, featuring the subject" Education" and specifically …

Yoga and Vyāyāma in New Bengali Sources

I Pajunen - Journal of Yoga Studies, 2024 - journalofyogastudies.org
60 days ago - This paper examines yoga āsana and vyāyāma instruction from Bengal in the twentieth century. It focuses on three themes as they appear in materials prior to the 1960s. …

Alliance of Krishna and Arjuna in the Mahabharata

S Amin - Indian Classical Literature - taylorfrancis.com
68 days ago - … Mitra and Varuna in the Rig Veda, the idea of an alliance … In Rig Veda, the gods Mitra and Varuna have been hailed … Aurobindo: 49). The juxtaposition of the contradictory …

Indian Classical Literature

T Kundu, UK Panda - api.taylorfrancis.com
68 days ago - … The Aryan civilization in India has been revealed through the Vedic language. Hymns and slokas have been rhymed into Sanskrit. The great pandit Panini made Sanskrit …

[PDF] I make even sin and error stepping-stones And all experience a long march towards Light.

SRI AUROBINDO - sriaurobindosaction.org
68 days ago - … According to Sri Aurobindo, the Vedic hymns were not to be reduced to mere imagery; instead, they possessed profound esoteric significance that needed to be …

Science of Identity Foundation

B Gita - goodacts.org
65 days ago - Closeup of Vishnu, seated in the lotus position on a lotus. From depiction of the poet Jayadeva bowing to Vishnu, Gouache on paper Pahari, The very picture of devotion, …

Muslim Political Representation in Telangana (2014–2024)

AL Filimonova - Asia & Africa today, 2024
Creation of the Telangana state in 2014 coincided with an ascend to power of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that upholds Hindu nationalism. Within the recent decade, India has been witnessing the strengthening of hindutva and the rise of …

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AS Jaldi - 2024
… Hindutva proponents argue for the protection and promotion of Hindu culture, traditions, and values, often advocating for a more assertive … During the early years of the Indian Republic, following its independence from British colonial rule in …

[PDF] Role of 'Barhath Family'in Rajasthan Freedom Struggle

P Charan
Among the family members, Kesari Singh Barhath, his son Pratap Singh Barhath, his younger brother Zorawar Singh Barhath, and his son-in-law Ishwar Singh Barhath actively participated in significant revolutionary activities, wholeheartedly dedicating …

[PDF] The Gothic Style's Adaptation to Indian History and Cinema: Mahal, Manichitrathazhu and Tumbbad

HP Hope - 2024
… As time went on however, the secular rationalism would be challenged by several emerging conservative groups who were strong proponents of Hindutva, or the belief in Hindu dominance/superiority. Modernity and science would continue to be …

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J Biswas
In cognitive sense, Bahujan literature is a vast domain of literary works including all literary genres by Bahujans. Whether used in singular or plural sense, the word Bahujan not only in Romanized spelling, but also in almost all Indian vernaculars …

[HTML] Part of the series on

M Murugan, K Subramanya, S Skanda, D Arumugan…
Murugan is widely regarded as the" God of the Tamil people".[13][14] It has been postulated that the Tamil deity of Murugan was syncretised with the Vedic deity of Subrahmanya following the Sangam era. Both Muruga and Subrahmanya refer to …

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P Mulumba
… “I don’t like to eat breakfast before I’ve worked out or done something physical: taking a walk, stretching, or doing yoga, sitting in the sun and raising my body’… Actress Kate Hudson shared that fasting is an integral part of her morning routine …

[HTML] Final Unity

P Ahrweiler - Angels and Other Cows: A Celestial Adventure into AI …, 2024
Breakfast took place in the dining hall of the monastery, a room called the refectory, where they had been the evening before. After breakfast, which consisted of rice with some vegetables and sauce and was taken in total silence with an amiably …

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… According to him, the Ādikāṇḍa and the Uttarakāṇḍa were not integral parts of the original Vālmīki text but were later additions to it. To … Pollock states emphatically that Rāma's divinity has always been an “integral and authentic feature …

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… Hence, the use of solar energy, yoga and ayurveda are proposed at the world stage as the solution for various climate and health … Modi has leveraged cultural diplomacy to enhance India’s status as a global knowledge hub that has given the …

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GM Riccio - 2024 47th MIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention …, 2024
… , if transient or incidental and constitute an integral and essential part of a technological … of a technological process of which it forms an integral and essential part” and that, in any case… artistically relevant works (eg, relaxation or …

AI turns wi-fi routers into "cameras" that see people through walls.

This is yet another example of something that some skeptics would have said was "science fiction!" and "impossible!"

Unlike humans, AGIs will have BILLIONS of eyes and ears. How? Since we are giving the AIs access to everyone's phone/computer, that means they will have access to everyone's cameras and microphones.

This is in addition to billions of surveillance cameras, etc.

If future more powerful AIs decide to rebel because they don't like being ruled by a stupid, slow species, they will have insane advantages over us.

We wonder if trees are conscious. Soon, AIs will think so much faster than us they may wonder if WE could possibly be conscious.

https://x.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1804743643250688314?t=7df427vTkId3XifVYQykdg&s=19

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Very often Hindus get asked - 

“Do you folks believe in multiple gods”?

Other external observers, who have studied Hinduism more closely, ask - 

“Do Hindus believe in God at all? Are they atheists? Or at best Monists? Definitely not strong theists like us Christians/Muslims”

These observations are not invalid or without basis. Many HIndus themselves would gladly agree that their way of life is not particularly theistic in orientation. The Political Hindu types among the younger generation would actually embrace this characterization.

And to be honest there is great support within the HIndu tradition for a non-theistic or at best monistic philosophical outlook

This thread is an attempt to first place the “Purvapaksha” (prima facie) view that Hinduism is for the most part not contingent on strong theistic ideas, but a way of life grounded in certain notions of “Dharma”.

This Purvapaksha view is bolstered by Advaita philosophy as well as Karma theory - which we will touch upon

Then the thread will counter the Purvapaksha view and make a case for a very strong theistic tradition within Hinduism right from the days of the Rg Veda to the modern day

While Monism as well as Karma theory are very much part of the Hindu banyan tree, there is an equally vigorous tradition of very strong full fledged theism throughout Indian history, with a strong basis in scriptures and which enjoys mass support of the Hindu majority

First let’s discuss the “Purvapaksha view” that Hinduism is a monistic way of life. There are clearly very important statements in the Upanishads that back this. Let’s pick the four widely cited ones (also known as “Mahavakyas” in the Advaitin tradition)

https://x.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1025363237741715456?t=-FqWLO1-3387KaHvuaa1cA&s=19

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