Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

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artificial intelligence

In ‘A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence’, held in the summer of 1956, it states:

The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.

association

In Integral Relational Logic, an association is an associative relationship that is non-hierarchical, where there is no obvious structural relationship between concepts. Such relationships are what makes the world we live in so complex. In my experience, hierarchical structures are much easier to understand.

assumption

When we make assumptions about the world we live in, based on those that our parents, teachers, and other forebears have made, we are inevitably led into delusion. We cannot even assume the postulates of Euclid, as ‘self-evident’ truths, for these do not originate at the Spring of all creativity.

Ātman

The fact that the human soul is never separate from the Essence of the Divine is recognized in Advaita by Sanskrit Ātman ‘Self’. “In virtue of its identity with Brahman,” Self has the same characteristics as the Absolute: “eternal, absolute being; absolute consciousness; and absolute bliss”.

Such Self-realization is absolutely essential at these troubled times we live in, as we seek Peace amidst the chaos the world is in today.

atom

To be added.

attribute

In Integral Relational Logic, attribute is a primal concept, denoting a property or characteristic assigned to an entity, as an instance of a class, such as the height of a mountain, a person’s name, the rate of flow of a river, the date of an event, or the colour of a blouse.

avidyā

Avidyā is used in both Hinduism and Buddhism to indicate our conditioned minds, unable to distinguish the relativistic, phenomenal world of form from our Immortal Ground of Being, to differentiate transient māyā from intransient Reality. Ignorance of the Truth thus prevents us from using our Divine Intelligence to understand what it truly means to be a human being.

awake

Although the etymology of awake relates to the way that we are aroused from sleep in the mornings, when the sun rises, the word is being increasingly used in society today to indicate spiritual awakening, as millions are seeking to realize the True Nature that we all share, in union with the Divine.

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