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

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Dear Subbu ji
Currently most science especially that which is employed in AI is premised
on consciousness being an emergent phenomenon of matter, arising
when matter is configured in certain complex ways. So adherents of this
reductionist materialism - where everything is reducible to physical
phenomena- are the “noble” inheritors of the legacy of Virocana of the
chāndogya upaniṣad.

There is as much chance of the narcissistic adherents of strong-AI
understanding Advaitam Caitanyam, as there is of Hiraṇyakaśipu finding Śrī
Hari in Vaikunṭha, which is zilch.

AI is certainly a super tool just like nuclear weapons. And when the people
in power who control both these tools are significantly devoid of any
clarity about dharma and mokṣa, we can only say, “Hail Mary” about the
future impact of them on humankind.

I don’t know the current wisdom on the dissenting voice of Roger Penrose
etc who rigorously showed that any algorithmic process cannot mimic
Conscious processes.

Om
Raghav



On Sun, 12 Jul 2026 at 12:02 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> 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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