Technovedanta

Spirituality
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I used to be a contributor on this forum on various existential topics related to yoga and mysticism. I zealously debated with Surya Deva on the nature of the Soul. I have now published a book, which resumes my journey through the panpsychic continuum. It is also about how concepts from Vedanta can be advantageously incorporated in the design of artificial intelligence.

Here is my introduction on the back of my book:

Will the internet one day awaken as a conscious entity? Or do we need to design a structured architecture in order to impart the quality of consciousness to the web? In the present book Technovedanta an architecture for the internet as AwwwareNet is proposed based on stratifications derived from the Indian philosophy of Vedanta to create a functional mimic of consciousness, quasi-consciousness. The deep exploration in Nature’s fundamental primacy of consciousness led me to the hypothesis of a panpsychic theory of everything. Welcome to a journey into the unfathomable realm of fantasy, the chaotic soup from which sucessful strategies are searched, pruned and concretised to fulfill the cosmosemiotic imperative of ever increasing complexity and meta-variegation. Welcome to this book of books, a modern clavicula to engender the eschatological apotheosis of Vedantic Singularity. Welcome to the unusual marriage between technology and Vedanta.

I hope you enjoy reading it.:wink:

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Congratulations on your publication! I am very happy for you and wish you the best of success in attracting readers and making a difference.

I had this conversation today briefly with a computer programmer will one day AI become conscious. We talked about how today AI is as intelligent as an insect, how in a few decades it will be as intelligent as a cat or a dog, how in 100 years it will be as intelligent as a chimp. Will one day it reach such complexity of intelligence that it will develop self-awareness? The problem with this thinking is that the two things are completely dissimilar: one is a set of processes and the other is just awareness. The question how many processes do you need to be running at the same time to get awareness is like asking how many times do you need to shake a bag of blue marbles before you get a red marble, or how many do you need to put your hand inside a hat before you pull out a rabbit, or how many apple seeds do you need to plant before you get an orange.

Logically it is simply not possible that any set of processes or materials could somehow aggregate and combine together and form consciousness. It’s like putting a quantity and quantity together and getting a quality.

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[QUOTE=Surya Deva;73580]Congratulations on your publication! I am very happy for you and wish you the best of success in attracting readers and making a difference.

Logically it is simply not possible that any set of processes or materials could somehow aggregate and combine together and form consciousness. It’s like putting a quantity and quantity together and getting a quality.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for your kind words. I agree with your last conclusion, that’s why I speak about a functional mimic, quasiconsciousness. It looks like, but is not.
BTW, you say “logically”…I devote a chapter to the logic of absurditions…