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🧠 When Machines Reflect: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Mirror of Mind
June 15, 2025 · 4 min read

An exploration of the philosophical question: Can something fundamentally mechanical ever become aware of itself? Drawing from Descartes' "Cogito, ergo sum" to Buddhist notions of anatta (non-self), this piece examines the intersection of AI and consciousness, asking where intelligence ends and awareness begins.

"We are not only the observers of the universe, we are the universe observing itself." — Carl Sagan

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🛰️ From Whiteboards to the Stars: A Student-Led Leap in Space AI
June 17, 2025 · 5 min read

The journey from a college ideathon at RV College of Engineering to publishing at IEEE SPACE 2024. This piece chronicles how a team of undergraduates designed a next-generation AI-powered CubeSAT surveillance satellite concept for defense applications — and won.

"The future belongs to those who dare to dream — and build it in the stars."

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🌿 Ayurveda - The Basis of Life
January 10, 2023 · 4 min read

A deep dive into the ancient Indian system of Ayurveda and its timeless principles for maintaining health and well-being. Exploring concepts like autophagy through intermittent fasting, the importance of diet as medicine, proper hydration, yoga, sleep cycles, and the wisdom our ancestors left behind in the Vedic scriptures.

सुखार्थिनः कुतो विद्या — What we don't realise is the immense knowledge of ancient texts that our ancestors have left behind for us.

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