Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
What drives human invention? According to psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, it often comes down to pattern recognition, a quality which thrives in autistic people. Tap here to watch his full interview on the misconceptions surrounding neurodiversity. iai.tv/video/neurodiv…
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Many scientists, operating with a materialist worldview, argue that consciousness emerges out of inanimate molecules. In contrast, Stuart Hameroff puts forward the controversial case that consciousness precedes life and that we have evidence for this from a recent NASA experiment. Stuart Hameroff is an American anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona known for his studies of consciousness and his controversial claim, alongside Sir Roger Penrose, that consciousness originates from quantum states in neural microtubules. Tap here to watch his talk. iai.tv/video/consciou…
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We tend to think the reality around us is something we discover. But philosopher Manuel Delaflor challenges this assumption, arguing that experience, meaning, and ontology are not uncovered features of a knowable world, but constructions we have created ourselves. In this article, Delafor dismantles the “myth” of discovery, showing how the categories we rely on are made, not found. If this is the case, the fundamental question shifts: not what reality is, but what we are choosing to build. “What categories do we walk around believing we discovered in the world, when in fact we manufactured them ourselves?” Click here to find out more. iai.tv/articles/we-do…
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Are we looking for self-knowledge in the wrong places? Psychologist Nick Chater argues that self-knowledge cannot be found by looking inward; the mind does not store beliefs and desires to be uncovered, it invents them on the spot. The brain is a brilliant improviser, coming up with explanations for our behaviour the instant we are asked for them. Shattering this illusion of inner depth exposes the therapeutic search for a "true self" as a futile pursuit, renders billion-dollar consumer surveys useless, and reveals that our demand for perfectly transparent AI is deeply misguided. The task of being human is not self-discovery, Chater suggests, but the creative act of self-authorship. Tap here to read more. iai.tv/articles/intro…
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As it was characteristic of Husserl, he approached his subject with the seriousness of a religious reformer—wishing to expound and elevate the philosophical life—by giving it a central place in the culture of his time. The “intensity” of Husserl’s personal character is a quality of his that has always made itself undeniably clear to me when I read his work. These lectures are no exception.
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Derrida exorcises the ghosts of metaphysics past
"All dualisms, all theories of the immortality of the soul or of the spirit, as well as all monisms, spiritualist or materialist, dialectical or vulgar, are the unique theme of a metaphysics whose entire history was compelled to strive toward the reduction of the trace."
- Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, Spivak trans., p.71
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A deeply insightful civilisational analysis by Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth ), reinterpreting Dharma through ethics, justice, institutional responsibility, and renewal. The MAHABHARATA portrays DHARMA as CONTEXTUAL ETHICS, not blind hero worship or rigid moral absolutism... The article offers a powerful ethical reinterpretation of the Mahabharata but could further relate these philosophical lessons to modern institutional governance, constitutional accountability, public administration, and ethical decision-making in contemporary society.
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H right badly need an immersion in cognitive psychology. We need to look up Bandura's 'Moral Disengagement' and other theories that explain how humans construct and reconstruct memory or ideals to justify actions. Modi ji's video will be hailed as a great effort (as an effort it might well be) but it will have the exact opposite impact on the intended audience. Unfortunately the coterie who were doxxing, reverse abusing or emphatically judging kids and their parents will suddenly do a 360 degree and say this is right. This will make it even worse.
The fundamental need for a human is to 'matter' - Mattering matters. Today, that mattering is supplied by social validation, mediated by exponential technology. Humans don't change behaviors to suit ideals, we reframe ideals or invent things to justify our behaviors. Self awareness is the rarest of things to know and even rarer to practice. Many intellectuals fail at this and that is why Hindu tradition prioritizes Wisdom Leadership over intellect. THat is a higher order existence. Yogic Samskara foundation from childhood, where the mind is reigned in by the citta is the only enduring solution to this cultural scaffolding.
Unless you change the rules of mattering, your sermons will become more fuel for abuses and memes. BJP and Modi ji are fighting knowledge, aesthetic and cultural battles with political tools. It is a losing strategy, compounded by a broken feedback loop. We really need to invest in real multi disciplinary knowledge centric research function and a high quality creative function with humility and curiosity. The culture needed for such a strategy is exactly the opposite of what we see now as a signal from power.
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Common people learn from life, and scholars can learn from their lived experience. But the latter is tied to particular occupations, places, and times. A potato seller knows a lot about the potato market. But individual experience alone can’t explain society as such. Scholars draw on the work of many others, enabling them to explain larger parts of society and even society as a whole. But they often learn mainly from texts and remain disconnected from common people’s lives. People often become objects of study rather than fellow human beings. There is a need to bridge these two worlds: scholarship informed by the lived experiences of common people, and everyday knowledge enriched by scholarly analysis. Scholars must feel the suffering of the people and commit themselves to the radical changes needed to end it.
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The Relevance of Sri Aurobindo for the young
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From ashes to awakening—discover Agni Paavaka from Satya, Poems to My Father. Join @MakrandParanspe and @PariksithSingh to explore life, death, and spiritual renewal. youtu.be/bcBauLfQ3Vg?si… @AmazingVedas
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Vedic Meditation Agni is not an object
This may fry your brain through in a good way
The Agni we love is not an object
It is not a flame that is outside
If you pay attention to the light within and be still for a moment you will notice the Agni
But where is it? It is not outside
The prakasa is coming from you and is you
It is in the background until you notice that you are the background
There is no Agni separate out there or that can be seen
It is not an object अविषय:
You can never find it. You are it. If you can appreciate this you have the first breakthrough of Vedanta
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Vedic Meditation on Einstein X 100
Let us try another way of looking at Indra. Since I have been unable so far in depicting his power
Let us do this thought experiment. Take a hundred Einsteins working at the peak of their capacity. Imagine the scale, power, range and creativity of such an intelligence
This might give you an idea about who Indra is
For man is still a mental creature. This world that we live in full of technological advancement, scientific knowledge and grand organization is a product of the human mind
Indra is the peak of this ability and each of us has him as our highest potential
We call Einstein a genius but what is genius but a great intelligence focused on a very specific field, a specialist yogi as it were
And Indra is not an armchair theorist. He designs the world according to his vision. He is a warrior of light and not just someone living in an ivory tower. He is our greatest yoddha for our greatest battles are not fought physically but with mental power. Look at the Mahabharata, 99 percent of which was fought on a subtle and occult level by Sri Krishna
Anyway, I hope this gives us a connect with Indra so that we can touch him somehow at our own level for someday we all should attempt to bring him down in our own ken
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1 Introduction: Thoughts Are Not Walking Alone: An Introduction and Invitation to Social Thought as Conversations
rational and intuitive, rational and spiritual, and is a living movement of prose and
poetry of the human condition. This book makes an effort to cultivate fields of …
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radical self-realization and mutualization as suggested by Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo.
It calls for a meditative and spiritual journey but as Kanti Bajpai writes in the Times of …
[PDF] Consciousness of the Future and the Future of Consciousness
attempted to synthesize Eastern spiritual ideas with the Western scientific-rational
mode of consciousness and develop balanced and integrative visions of the future …
[PDF] The Bird beyond Being: Existential Consciousness, Non-Dualism, and the Phenomenology of Self in Dr. Panchanan Nayak's Bird
consistently functioned as a profound mode of philosophical inquiry. It explores
questions that cannot be fully answered by empirical science or systematic …
[PDF] International Journal Research Publication Analysis
Aurobindo Ghosh is regarded as one of the most nuanced and significant
individuals in contemporary Indian history. In order to place Sri Aurobindo’s …
[PDF] Sister Nivedita: A Cultural Ambassador of Feminism
Pondicherry, Sister Nivedita was perhaps at the top from the eyes of the researchers.
Even her books were published and she (Margaret Elizabeth Noble) served …
[PDF] Bhakti as a Pathway to Existential and Psychological Well-Being: An Integrative Indian Psychological Framework
occupies a central position within Indian philosophical, spiritual, and psychological
traditions. Despite its significance in classical Indian thought, Bhakti remains …
Convergence of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Healing: The Synergistic Potential of Yoga and Ayurveda in Contemporary Evidence-based Medicine
young as the architects of a new world, unshackled from traditionalism and
materialism. While such perspectives reflect the philosophical and cultural …
Emergence and Epistemic Alignment: Reinterpreting NEP 2020 in a Transforming India
framework of learning, where institutional structures form the outer level, and the
development of the learner’s self forms the core. It suggests that the policy can be …
[PDF] A Critical perspective on the impact of social media on Religiosity
Aurobindo, Auroville is an experimental township that integrates spiritual practices
with progressive ideas of human unity, sustainability, and technological innovation …
