New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
I am in a sesshin, a 2.5-day short form of intensive Zen meditation. Thoughts and images about artificial general intelligence (AGI), which we are currently creating, keep coming to me. More and more people from the humanities, psychology, or team organization fields are expressing admiration, surprise, and anxiety regarding AGI's capabilities. It seems that [...]
Game - Misstep In the past, when I thought of games, I thought it had to do with games in the sense of amusements and amusements with rules. To play a game means to enter a space restricted by rules, and the player can develop strategies within these parameters to act according to the rules, with the goal […].
A year in Auroville: a powerful account of transformation and the search for spirituality in India. Learn more about the adventure and the meaning of consciousness. #India #Spirituality
In India, the books of the Vedas have been kept in memory for 3000 years. The Rigveda (10,552 verses), Samaveda (1549 verses), Yajurveda (4001 verses) and Atharvaveda (5977 verses) as well as the Upanishads (approx. 1800 verses) have been passed down from generation to generation. The grammar of Sanskrit has not changed significantly and the pronunciation is characterized by exact phonetic [...]
Discover the problems of logic and David Lewis' radical answer to these problems in this text. Learn more about the meaning of sentences in different contexts and the indefinability of truth.
I am slowly approaching Sanskrit. On Thursdays, Nishtha holds a seminar on the Rigveda. The joint recitation in Sanskrit, the detailed analysis of the translation, Nishtha's philological reflections and the explanations on the psychology of the gods open up access to these 'sacred' texts. I remember my Latin studies, the Indo-Germanic roots, the sounds that [...]
Many films feature grand hotels that are centrally located and serve as meeting places for the political, intellectual, and economic elite. I have always perceived this as something very elitist, colonial, and power-hungry. What I missed in the films, and what was probably rarely discussed there, is the networking that takes place in such locations. […]
Life is so complex and there are so many different ways to live. There is no right or wrong way to live. Life is a gift. But what do you say about the negative energies, destruction and aggression, greed and envy? All of that is part of it. There is only acceptance. But acceptance means [...]
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