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Book Review – Human Edge In The AI Edge by Nitin Seth
Human Edge in the AI Age: Eight Timeless Mantras for Success by Nitin Seth My rating: 3 of 5 stars AI is bringing a seismic shift in our lives. Apart from disrupting industries it is also redefining concepts like work, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Philosophy, Technology
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Philosophy, Spirituality, Technology, Wisdom
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Mastering The Mind with Shrimad Bhagvad Gita
Shrimad Bhagvad Gita (श्रीमद भगवद गीता) provides a pathway for mastering the citta (चित्त:), mind by its inscrutable analysis of karma (कर्म), action that revolves on the idea of the three gunas (गुण), traits of sattva (सत्त्व:), rajas (राजस:)& tamas (तामसः) and their effects on the mind of kařta (कर्ता), the doer and the final transcendence of these gunas by a self-exceeding … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Sanskrit
Tagged Arjuna, BhagvadGita, hinduism, Krishna, Life, Mahabharta, Meditation, Mind, Philosophy, Religion, Sanatana Dharma, Sanskrit, SelfHelp, Spirituality
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Book Review – How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan
How Intelligence Happens by John Duncan 5 of 5 stars The word “intelligence” comes from Latin terms intelligentia and intellligere meaning “to comprehend” or “to perceive”. In the Middle Ages, the word intellectus was used to translate the Greek … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Science
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, ArtificialIntelligence, Books, Consciousness, Intelligence, John Duncan, Philosophy, Psychology
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Book Review – Age of AI by, Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher
The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger5 of 5 stars I’ve been long searching for a book which could explain the philosophical foundations upon which the edifice of today’s AI frameworks has been built … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Science, Technology
Tagged AGI, AI, ArtificialIntelligence, EricSchmidt, HenryKissinger, ICT, IT, Philosophy
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Book Review – The Human Situation by Aldous Huxley
The Human Situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara 1959 by Aldous HuxleyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a pertinent book in the current chaotic world as it deep dives into the human condition and unravels the social, economic and … Continue reading
प्रातः स्मरामि स्तोत्रम ‘Remembering the Self at Dawn’ Hymn by Ādi Śankara
This is a prayer composed by Sri Adi Shankaracharya consisting of three stanzas in which the mind (manas) speech (vak), and body (kaya) of the individual are sought to be dedicated to the supreme Spirit. The first thoughts, words and actions of everyday exert a … Continue reading
Posted in Sanskrit
Tagged Hindutva, Philosophy, Sanatana Dharma, Sanskrit, Shankaracharya, Spirituality
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Book Review – Stages of Meditation by Dalai Lama XIV
Stages of Meditation by Dalai Lama XIV 5 of 5 stars This book records the commentary on Kamalashila’s “Stages of Meditation” as rendered by His Holiness Dalai Lama to his close followers in Manali 1989. Acharya Kamalashila was a great … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, DalaiLama, Discrimination, Freedom, Ignorance, Kamalashila, Knowledge, Meditation, Philosophy
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Book Review – An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume’s Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh by David Hume 5 of 5 stars David Hume is considered the greatest British philosopher and, … Continue reading
Book Review – What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
This is the book to learn about philosophy, what it means, what good it does to us and what makes it different from science and art. Deleuze and Guattari delved into these questions and have produced some convincing answers in … Continue reading
