[Advaita-l] [advaitin] "Seminar on Wonders of Consciousness vis-a-vis Marvels of AI | 11 July 2026" Live now

[V Subrahmanian]

Dear Putran ji,

Yes, Swamiji alludes to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and the Bhashyam,
which discuss Chaitanyam and how it can't be pointed out, like saying,
'this is a cow.' The only method, therefore, is 'neti neti'—excluding
everything that is not Chaitanyam.

Then he dwells upon how Shankara incorporated this method alone in many of
his other texts like Dashashloki and Ekashloki.

Swamiji says: If science can arrive at the existence of Chaitanyam through
computers and AI, the great benefit would be also that all who consider
science the leading domain would walk the path of righteousness.  He bases
this on the Taittiriya statement: "asan eva sa bhavati, asad brahmeti veda
chet."  He who denies God/Ishwara/Chaitanyam, himself becomes non-existent,
in the sense that he does not follow the path of purushartha. Conversely,
if one accepts Chaitanyam, they attain the supreme.

Swamiji is very positive and open to the role of Science and AI in arriving
at the existence of Consciousness.

Warm regards
subbu

On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 9:01 AM putran M <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2:13:20 - "Today modern neuroscience .. relies on a few theoretical
> frameworks to explain how brain activity gives rise to subjective
> experience."
>
> 2:24:30 - "Neuroscience views consciousness [as] a global network
> phenomenon that is required to report, act upon, and consolidate in the
> explicit memory."
>
> 2:27:30: Swami referring to someone's claim, "With drugs even higher
> states of consciousness can be induced ... samadhi can be induced through
> drugs, that's what he says ..."
>
> 2:31:00 This swami who speaks from computer science background compares
> and distinguishes the viewpoints of computer science vs Vedanta.
>
> 3:00:00 the shankaracharya talks in Sanskrit. Can Subbu-ji or someone give
> the essential translation? I think he emphasizes that the "san" path shown
> in Upanishads to "Consciousness" is neti-neti (not AI?), and this is to be
> followed.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM putran M <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://youtu.be/ageOqPUYZR4?is=Q_ocsjSh_Wg-DuR1
>>
>> I knew I was not reasoning based on pramanas :)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 11 Jul, 2026, 2:16 pm putran M, <putranm4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 11 Jul, 2026, 11:42 am Swagata Chowdhury, <
>>> swagatachowdhury024 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Namaskar,
>>>> Sadly the video is private currently. Because of that I cann't watch it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Likely this is from youtube's AI flagging them for talking too much on
>>> AI: machine determining and man following. I don't see why RKM will make
>>> the video private.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Swagata
>>>>
>>>>
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