This was a presentation done on thought on Indian philosopher Aurobindo Gosh. It explains how technology is going to affect human lives today. And also it would surely give a sense of religion also.

1. EPIPHANY OF
TECHNOLOGY
RELIGION AT THE VERGE OF SUPEREROGATION

2. DYNAMICS
OF
TECHNOLOG
Y
Virtual Reality
Artificial Intelligence

3. • Scientific Progression: Electricity, Electronics, Digital, 2D-5D
• Pros: Networking
• Cons: The greatest Politicizing agent, Fundamentalism, Neo-
Nazisism, Traditionalism
• Medium : Art
VIRTUAL REALITY (MEDIA)

4. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• Programs, logarithms, Machine Learning
• Pros: decreases human efforts
• Cons: vanishing human jobs, the question of a possible threat,
Consciousness

5. POSTMODERN DISCOURSE ON
TECHNOLOGY
• Simulcra and Simulcrum
• Being controlled by Machines (The Matix)

6. THE STORY TILL NOW (10-20 YEARS
• Economic Boom – Leftist economy – Globalization – Technology
spreading its wings – progress, secularization - Indifference
towards religion – postmodernism as self critique emerging –
resilience of religion – fundamentalism – cultural wars –
Religion being politicized through technology – rightist
economy – Politics+Technology controls religion/ religious
activities

7. • Centralization of Power, little narratives are forgotten,
• Once religious phenomenon is curbed = Technology takes over
humanity (simucrum = non-metaphysical discourses)

8. RELIGION
RESTARTS
WITH
METAPHYSIC
S

9. ENSEMBLES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
• Religion(non-irrational) – Philosophy – physics – biology…
Psychology – Technology
• Downward gradation through rational postulation which
presupposes a non-metaphysical turn, then a reduction
• Eg. Psychology body mind dualism (penial gland) (ready to hand
and present at hand)

10. Religion
Philosophy
Biology
Psychology
Technology
• Involution
• Technology as
revealing all intuitions
• Consciousness –
Matter Acquires
Consciousness (spirit
is in matter
Aurobindo)

11. PROCESS
Matter
Consciousness
Evolution

12. CONSCIOUSNESS