BOSTON: MIT scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can take still images and generate short videos to simulate what happens next, similar to how humans can visually imagine how a scene will evolve.
Humans intuitively understand how the world works, which makes it easier for people, as opposed to machines, to envision how a scene will play out.
Et tu, Evolution?
Et tu, Evolution? https://t.co/bIQ5r5CLEq @ARangarajan1972
ANAND RANGANATHAN | Sat, 10 Dec 2016, DNA
Life has no purpose. We are a creation of chance, a conspiracy hatched by thunder and lightning and water and ammonia and hydrogen and methane and dust, demonstrated so persuasively by Stanley Miller in 1953. Amino-acetonitrile met water and formed glycine three billion years ago; a sperm met an egg and produced a baby yesterday. All random, ...
Fifty years ago, roughly 30 babies in 1000 found it physically impossible to emerge from the birth canal. Today that figure stands at 36. We are therefore stuck in a compromise, and C-section babies are living proof of this.
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On sentience, sapience and speciesism https://t.co/6WlKbF2Rg4 Finally managed to write this, after a lot of deliberation and reading.
After finding the effect of antivirus, antibiotic and immune system, concept of protecting "all life" looked quite strange to me!
The late AK Ramanujan, one of the finest scholars of Indian literature, and a poet, wrote a brilliant, informal essay published in 1989 titled, “Is there an Indian way of thinking?”
Among the many gems in this essay is a notion that all Indian thinking is context-sensitive, as opposed to the Western way of thinking that creates thoughts that claim to be context-free. To illustrate this, Ramanujan quotes a parable of the Buddha—
"Once a man was drowning in a sudden flood. Just as he was about to drown, he found a raft. He clung to it, and it carried him safely to dry land. And he was so grateful to the raft that he carried it on his back for the rest of his life." Such was the Buddha’s ironic comment on context-free systems. Our Vedas and our glorious epics all begin with a setting of the context...
But your ancient wisdom came to you from your diabetic grandmother. That is called a home truth, not to be confused with ancient wisdom. Health expert @rmantha2 https://t.co/9poUDfp6mr
Contributions of #socialmedia r many. It has given us a glimpse into how Insane, narcissistic most of us are, that truth's matter of belief
Acting ideology-free can be either excellent or awful. Former may come through pragmatism, latter often comes through rank populism.
Pragmatism often suffers from the pitfalls of the fallacies in one's reasoning. Nothing excellent about it except the feel-good factor. https://t.co/p7OWNgqjVZ
@Flyfiddlesticks I mean pragmatism. More often than not, pragmatists rationalise theories according to the ends they seek.
@Flyfiddlesticks Which brings us to the definition of pragmatism. Which could be applied to anything except nihilism. 😀😀
@vimuktaatma 😂 but they're also ideology driven. If pragmatic, you can go against "pragmatism" as well. 😈@vimuktaatma I'd argue that they're not pragmatic but merely professing so.
The real truths are heresies. They cannot be spoken. Only discovered, whispered, and perhaps read.
One of the cruxes of the "truth" is to understand and identify those "who" define "truth" to be "heresy", and how they do it. https://t.co/9WkVFvJqas
@naval Repression of Heresy is only in Abrahmic Religions; Western Culture is alter ego of Semetic exclusive Truth claim, joined at Hip
@samAlochaka @naval Alternate Truth claim becomes a heresy to the self-proclaimed guardians of Exclusive Truth claim in Abrahmic thought
@naval “it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence". Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
@samAlochaka Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam is not in any sacred text but in Hitopdasesh story warning against cunning enemy mouthing such philosophy
But seriously, how are you supposed to grow up children?
There would always be things that you tell them to do/not do.
There have been wonderful examples of the academic left standing by the suffering people, joining in struggles, developing powerful discourses, and widening the cause.
an excerpt from my book on Maoists
Maoists in India: Tribals under Siege, Pluto Press London; Amaryllis, India, 2012
The least intellectuals can do, once they have unmasked the propaganda of the State, is to tell the powers that the truth is out. Once the truth is uncovered and laid before the people, someone somewhere will pick up the thread and proceed to develop more sustainable forms of resistance. If intellectuals still have energy and courage, they can use their relative insularity from repression to help raise a protective wall around this resistance so that it can grow inside. So the moral is to protect resistance to protect truth.
[The trouble with this artistic portrayal of fascism is that Benito Mussolini, the suave gentleman, doesn’t fit.] NM https://t.co/OIMbuE0qbS
Books like Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys (ed by Bi-qi B. Lei, JC Ick, & Poonam Trivedi) and Hegel's India (by Rathore & Rimina Mohapatra) bridge East and West.
[PDF] THE POETIC IMAGINATION OF WILLIAM BLAKE: RETRACING THE SYMPHONY BETWEEN THE SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND THE SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
A Maiti
... By Sri Aurobindo WORKS CITED [1]. Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience. Dover Publications. February 5, 1992. Print. [2]. Bloom, Harold. Bloom's Major Poets. Chelsea House Publications 2003. Print. [3]. Martin, William. ...
Shakespeare's Asian Journeys: Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel
BB Lei, JC Ick, P Trivedi - 2016
I find an identity of views between Sri Aurobindo and CG Jung. Both emphasize self knowledge. Self knowledge automatically leads one towards being a super mind and work for spiritual unity and good of community. Altruism at surface, without inner awakening and self knowledge, is merely a display of ego .
If you muster the courage to read this difficult book, it will change your life.
Vidya Nand Garg: The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/cWt7ZLjOnv
@vidyanandgarg Two other booklets, The Mother and The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth are essential supplements https://t.co/wo7CB0TMsK
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The Status of Oneness and Bliss Is the Ultimate Development of Spiritual Self-Perfection - The ultimate development of spiritual self-perfection comes when the entire consciousness and the active nature reflect the Oneness of all existence. The e...
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Radical Secularization? - [image: Radical Secularization?]In a discussion in the German press about the displacement of continental philosophy in Europe by the increasingly triumpha...
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Up for grabs: A Twitter rant, blogged - All this makes clear what we all kind of knew: that institutional stability and continuity is partisan issue and has been for a long time. I’ve long joked ...
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In Search of Organisational Soul – I (Part 1) - Regular visitors to Matriwords are familiar with our ongoing research and study that explores Sri Aurobindo’s social philosophy to understand the deeper ps...
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Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol—Urdu Translation By Satpal. Hindi Transliteration By Ghalib.: The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, The Kingdoms of the Little Life, ادنیٰ زندگی کی بادشاہتیں , Canto III , II:iv Section 1 [37.01-37.07] - اِک دُنیا لایقینی بے چین کپکپاتی इक दुनिया ला यक़ीनी बेचैन कपकपाती A quivering trepidant uncertain world
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“Invitation to Savitri” Pt 08 Book 1 Canto 4 - " ... nothing needs to frighten you in life, all you have to do is to be conscious of the Divine guidance in all situations, in all circumstances. The se...
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Sri Aurobindo espouses Modernity - Tweets by @SavitriEraParty Savitri Era: Dhiren Bhagat, Dileep Padgaonkar, and Fidel Castro https://t.co/7aOGrA3WEZ #SriAurobindo #DeMonetisation #FreeTheSta...
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Sri Aurobindo's rhetorical devices and unique narrative voice - The next two works focus on the political side of Sri Aurobindo’s life. Tracts for His Times examines the unique influence of the English journal Bande Mat...
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SMITH WAS A RHETORICIAN LONG BEFORE HE WAS A POLITICAL ECONOMIST - Gregory Norton posts (7 November) on QUORA HERE https://www.quora.com/How-does-Paul-Samuelsons-interpretation-of-the-invisible-hand-differ-from-Adam-Smith’s...
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Man is a fourfold being - My Kind of Place: Pondicherry, India – a slice of France in South India The National-2 hours ago ... refurbished villas converted to charming hotels and many...
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The Candle of Vision - This book by Irish author, poet, painter and mystic George William Russell, is a set of transcendent essays on Celtic mysticism. Known by his pen name AE (...
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The art of communication – through the lens of Equanimity - How much ever I wish and hope telepathy to be the official channel of communication, the role of language and active communication cannot be denied in toda...
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Book Review of An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Roy W. Perrett (Reviewed by Matthew R. Dasti) - Roy W. Perrett. An Introduction to Indian Philosophy. 249pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. $34.99 (paperback). When introducing the wide-ra...
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Sri Aurobindo devoted his life towards transformative yoga - A Life Divine: Remembering Sri Aurobindo on His Death Anniversary The Quint-8 hours ago A new play on Sri Aurobindo is in the works. Led by West Bengal Touri...
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Sixty Photographs of Sri Aurobindo’s Mahasamadhi - Dear Friends, On 5 December 1950 at 1:26 a.m., Sri Aurobindo the “Colonist from Immortality” had left his physical sheath as a supreme act of sacrifice for...
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Mother on the passing of Sri Aurobindo. - Mahasamadhi Lord, this morning Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness whic...
