I have not been writing content on this blog for a long time. Partly because I have been busy with other stuff. Partly because I have been waiting for something really valuable to arrive t
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Tag: consciousness
Neural Correlates of Belief
We have been working on some of Sam Harris’s Ph.D. thesis. The idea is to see how religious beliefs affect consciousness. Here is our research article that recently got published in a nice conference. It
Read moreThe Era of Blindness
The decade of 40s has a very special place in my consciousness. I personally think that it was in this decade that the humanity radically shifted its course of history. Before these years, humanity lived
Read moreOf Thought Experiments
I was surfing the web. Initially, it was just random, Brownian surfing. Then I thought about surfing with a purpose. I thought what should I surf the web for? Then I thought about surfing the
Read moreAs a Captive of the Present Moment
I wrote about the non-existence of time recently. You may wonder why this is such an important idea to write about, and that too in such a painstaking way to argue that time does not
Read moreOf Randomly Generated Ideas
A few days back, I was traveling with a friend in his car. He was driving and I was sitting right beside him. Apart from being a good driver, he is also a wonderful speaker.
Read moreSome Street Epistemology
Legend has it that once upon a time a few Mongolian soldiers approached a sultan in central Asia. They wanted to complain to him about some misconduct of his soldiers with their people. The sultan
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