In the Fall of 1997 the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory hosted a ground-breaking and controversial lecture series titled “God and Computers: Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics.” Ten talks were given by a broad range of experts in computer science, cognitive science or A.I.; they accompanied an award-wining course in the EECS Department being taught by Dr. Anne Foerst, a Lutheran minister and post-doc at the A.I. Lab (6.915, “God and Computers”). Among other themes, speakers considered the ways in which their work intersected with spiritual and philosophical questions, and how the dialogue between computer science and technology might be expanded.

The eighth lecture in the series, titled “Intelligence and God: Shankara's View of the World and Its Implications for Cognitive Science,” was presented on Nov. 19, 1997 by Prof. Bijoy Misra, professor of computer science at the Harvard Extension School and consultant in the Department of Radiology and Neurology at the Harvard Medical School. A physicist and Hindu scholar of Sanskrit, Misra approaches existential questions as applied to cognitive science through the teachings of 8th century Indian Hindu philosopher Shankara.

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