Thoughts & Musings
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Exploring the boundaries of Advaita Vedanta, consciousness studies, cognitive science, and AI & mind.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Where AI Meets Advaita
Exploring how Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness resonates with the Advaita Vedantic concept of Brahman as pure awareness — and what this means for AI systems that simulate understanding.
Large Language Models: Syntax Without Semantics?
Do LLMs genuinely understand language, or are they sophisticated pattern matchers? A cognitive science lens on the distinction between syntactic processing and semantic grounding.
Non-Dual Awareness and the Observer Effect in Quantum Cognition
Drawing parallels between the Advaitic notion of the witness-consciousness and quantum observer effects — how observation shapes reality in both physics and mind.
Building Empathetic AI: Lessons from Mental Health Conversational Models
Reflections from building Elixir-v2 — what it taught me about empathy, ethics, and the responsibility of deploying AI in sensitive domains.
The Great Retrieval Debate: Vector vs. Vectorless RAG
At the dawn of new emerging technologies, which type of RAG will gain the most trust from the enterprises - will cosine similarity win or will semantic tree graphs take the lead?