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In the movie Her (2013), Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a lonely writer who is on the verge of separating from his wife Catherine, played by Rooney Mara. To cope with his loneliness, he purchases an OS (Artificially Intelligent Operating system), which is designed to adapt based...
19.11.25 09:08 AM - Comment(s)

Morals are stupendously complicated, because they are not clear-cut facts. Instead, they are value judgements. It's hard to explain morality, because it takes you into a regress. Let's do this: assume you roughly define morality as principles about RIGHT and WRONG, or GOOD and EVIL. Now, how do...

22.07.24 10:17 PM - Comment(s)

Bharat has a very rich intellectual and spiritual tradition spanning more than 3000-5000 years. The intellectual, as well as the, spiritual corpus of the sub-continent is captured in the 4 Vedas.


What do the Vedas contain?

The Vedas contain the mystical/spiritual experiences of various Rishis. Most of...

03.03.24 08:03 PM - Comment(s)
A hypothetical mechanism for free will

The free will debate and discussion is a never-ending one - much like any other truly philosophical question, there is no possibility of a “true answer” but rather only an exploration of hypotheses that seem logically sound.
This essay tries to explore a hypothesis that can explain the mechanism of f...

15.01.24 10:02 PM - Comment(s)
 Science has not killed god - Grounding belief in philosophy, logic and experience 

Introduction 

I love science, and I think it's been the single most important driver of innovation, technology and human well-being. What historically propelled science was our curiosity to understand, not just the world we inhabited, but also the heavens that eluded us (metaphorically speaking)...

01.12.23 07:25 PM - Comment(s)