By Jyotisvara dasa
What is this conference all about?
Consciousness has been the most elusive object in all scientific explorations of reality. With gradual advances in modern science, it is increasingly receiving the singular focus simply because all our perception of reality is rooted in it.
Despite incredible success in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience as well as basic sciences like physics and biology, we have practically no clue as to how information translates into meaning and experience in this world. While the hard problem of consciousness stares at our face, we have started to appreciate what information is and its fundamental role for a conscious observer in this world.
The mind-body problem has occupied the centre stage of western philosophical thought for millennium. Consciousness research is now at the forefront of all scientific research. Can we really build intelligent and conscious machines? How does consciousness arise? How does information translate to meaning and experience? Are our experiences of the world real or part of virtual reality?
Probably we are now standing at the crossroads so as to choose decisive steps to reality. At such a juncture, Vedantic philosophical and spiritual traditions may hold key to the next leap in our empirical quest for truth.
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