: Perspectives of Indian Philosopy and Artificial Intelligence

Language: Sanskrit
Pages: 192


About the Book

Sense Perception is one of the most important aspects that is involved in every sphere of activity in human life. Human life itself revolves around sense perception. While our ancient philosophical systems del e deep into all aspects involved in perception, there has been renewed interest in this field, of late, among the scientific fraternity, in an attempt to generate artificial perceptual knowledge in computers and robots. In this context, it is very interesting to explore if and how the theories of perception expounded by our ancient philosophers can contribute to modern knowledge. The Present work is first step in this direction.

 

About the Author

Vidwan Dr. M.A. Alwar is a traditional Sanskrit scholar specializing in the Nyaya and Visistadvaitavedanta systems of philosophies and is deeply interested and active in inter- disciplinary research of the traditional Indian knowledge systems with contemporary knowledge systems. While he continues to study the deeper aspects of the Indian Darsanas under his illustrious Guru Mahamahopadhyaya Panditaratna K.S.Vardacharya (a stalwart scholar who has dedicated his entire life to unearth the hidden truths of the Darsanas and their relevance), He is also actively engaged in the critical edition, translation and publication of works pertaining to various Indian Knowledge systems. Dr. M. A. Alwar is at present working as Assistant Professor of Nyvya in the Maharaja's Sanskrit College. Mysore and also as Honorary Project Director of the Literary Research Unit of an Ayurvedic Research Organization at Bangalore.

 

Introduction

This thesis may seem to be of an unusual nature, because of the fact that it attempts the comparison of two seemingly divergent fields, Indian Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Cognitiv