My information was from a lecture by Dr. Vasant Lad tracing it down to the intellect. That, I thought was a pretty good foundation to base artificial consciousness on. IOW, I'm not saying purusha itself but the unfoldment gives a roadmap to developing a emulation.
emptybill wrote: > Yahoo garbled the chart in the first post so here's a better view. For > what it is worth. > > > > > > Organic or inorganic awareness: > > > > > > A jiva may be relational and created but for Patanjali, Purusha is a > term for the uncreated nature of sheer innate awareness. Innate > awareness is not a quality of some binary software or any machine > organic or inert but a principle reality within which this universe is > functioning and being expressed. > > > > According to Feurstein, Patanjali used four metaphors to describe > Purusha, all of them modeled upon the empirical concepts of perceiving, > cognizing and owning. In spite of the modeling, Purusha is still defined > as nir-guna. > > > > metaphor of seeing > > drg-shakti > > drastr > > drshi > > drshi-maatra > > > > metaphor of otherness > para > > > > metaphor of owning > > svamin > > prabhu > > grahitr > > > > metaphor of cognizing > > chiti > chiti-shakti > > > >
