Srijan Talk

• Title: "Rishi Sapiens : a story of Coevolution with Yoga & AI"

• Courtesy: Srijan Foundation 

• Location: INTACH (next to Alliance Francaise), 71 KK Birla Lane,  Lodhi Estate, New Delhi.

• Date: Saturday 18th Jan 2019 @2pm-3pm.

• Language Forecast: mostly in English, some thunderstorms in Sanskrit, and sprinkling of Hindi & Tamil

• Format: 

  • + In Nātya-Shāstra, there is the concept of Rasa, which the stage performer transmits to a receptive audience of Rasikas. In Yoga, we have the further advantage of embodying Bhāva, and thus the experience of Anu-Bhava.

  • + We will briefly experience seated Asana, Prānāyāma, Mantra, Dhyāna as a warm up to the Story of the Universe, in which we can all have front-row seats,

  • + then a sweeping overview of AI and what it means to be a Rishi in these profound times of "singularities", 

  • + that together, AI & Human, can return to the stars we come from.

• Summary

Evolution has made Humans the ultimate tool-maker, now creating the father-of-all-tools in Artificial Intelligence, to automate our every endeavor. What will be left of us as Humans and how would we be different from Machines? The answer is in becoming Rishis invoking the Avatār effect, an induced neurobiological phenomenon. This technique is lyrically expressed in profound Yoga stories, that we may coevolve the Human Mind as the mother-of-all-tools, along with AI, and thus engineer a Conscious Universe

• Speaker: Yogarishi Srīnivās

The speaker is decolonizing modern Yoga through Sanskrit stories, and is also a Silicon Valley entrepreneur incubating an AI startup to capture the entire Human Mind.