Man-Machine intersection Painting is what you see. Poetry is what you feel. Inside every painting is a flow. Some of us resonate with it. Some don’t. For those of us who do, we get a distinct feeling. And that is the poetry hidden within the painting. Similarly, when we read a poem, we are looking […]
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Category: Technospirituality
Predicting the future from the past
Can you really predict the future looking at past data? Well, mostly yes! But it will never be 100% true. The reason why we can predict the future from the past is that we all are creatures of habit. If we tend to drink coffee in the morning, we will keep buying coffee and that […]
Computers = Bits | Humans = Stories
Computers = Bits | Humans = Stories Computers are made of bits. Humans are made of stories. That’s the difference. When 8 bits come together, they make a byte. A single byte is just a symbol. When we string together bytes, we get kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and so on. A set of bytes laid down […]
The end of innocence
Have you seen a 1-year-old? So innocent and pristine. Just like a rosebud which is about to flower tomorrow. The child is unaware of the rules and regulations of the world. Some familiar people and some familiar places. That’s all it knows. The child is happy most of the time. As the child grows up, […]
The machine is alive …
The machine is alive. Where did it come from? Where are we headed? This little contraption called the computer is just a chip which has been cast of Sand. In the 1950’s we had a powerful revolution. The Silicon revolution. Chips lasered from Sand or Silicon became the most potent thing on Earth. They were […]
The thinking, learning and feeling machi...
The big game-changer in AI in the last 10 years is that machines have started to learn. This means that they don’t have to be explicitly programmed. Take, for instance, the machine DeepBlue which defeated the Chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov. Now, this machine was not intelligent in the sense that the programmers had tediously programmed […]
Can machines have emotions or feel like ...
An emotion is your body’s response to events. This is ruled by the Moon. You have both positive and negative emotions. When you have a positive emotion such as Joy, oxytocin is secreted in your blood. While an emotion like Anger produces cortisol. While we don’t have much control over our emotions, they can be […]
A techno-spiritual world
Technology has the following benefits : You save an ample amount of time doing some task It improves your productivity (in terms of the quality of work) It augments your abilities It’s very effective when repetitive work has to be done It doesn’t get bored or have any other emotions It’s easy to use In […]
Left , Right or Whole brained
Are you left brained or right brained ? It’s a well-known fact that the left brain is responsible for analytical and logical skills. On the other hand, the right brain is the creative, artistic personality that we have. But there is no such thing as you are being right or left brained. Because the brain […]
Inside the mind of God
To succeed we need to understand how the mind works. The mind is nothing but an expanse of collective memories and experiences. The mind consists of four parts : memory (karma), intellect, ego and chitta (intelligence). Of these, the first 3 are very active in most people. Chitta is that part of the mind which […]