Abstract The great eleventh-century figure, Rāmānuja, belonged to the Śrīvaiṣṇava community that worshiped divine as Viṣṇu-with-Śrī, Lord-and-Consort. But he also embarked on a project develop an interpretation of first-century Vedāntasūtra , which presented supposedly core teachings major Upaniṣads, traditionally last segment sacred corpus Vedas. Rāmānuja sought reconcile devotional commitment...

Dreaming remains a mystery to neuroscience. While various hypotheses of why brains evolved nightly dreaming have been put forward, many these are contradicted by the sparse, hallucinatory, and narrative nature dreams, that seems lack any particular function. Recently, research on artificial neural networks has shown during learning, such face ubiquitous problem: overfitting dataset, which leads...

This article identifies the tropes of “maturity” and “immaturity” in the dialogue between religion and science. On both sides of the aisle, authors charge, either directly or indirectly, that their dissenting interlocutors are not mature enough to see the value of their respective positions. Such accusations have recently emerged in discussions pertaining to Hindu theology, Indology, and scienc...