Chaitanya Chintaluri

@chaichinta.bsky.social

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Food, neurotheory, and everything in between.

According to Brhaspati, thinking is due to the four constitutive principles of matter, just as the power to intoxicate is due to the ingredients in the wine. What we call a human body, or a sense organ, or a physical object, is just a combination (samudāya; an as- semblage) of earth, fire, air, and water; indeed, these four kinds of matter are all there is. A person is a human body endued with think- ing, and individual lives differ one from another as bubbles differ in water. Recent work on the reconstruction of Br q haspati’s text allows us to conjecture that it begins as follows: 1.1 Next then we will examine the nature of the reals. 1.2 Earth, fire, air, and water are the reals. 1.3 Their combination is called the ‘body’, ‘senses’, and ‘objects’. 1.4 Consciousness (caitanya) [is formed] out of these [elementary reals]. 1.5 As the power to intoxicate [is formed] out of fermenting ingredients. 1.6 A human being (purus q a) is a body qualified by consciousness. 1.7 [Thinking is] from the body alone. 1.8 Because of its presence when there is a body.
Foggy picture of gloriette schönbrunn in Vienna
Meme of an astronaut looking at Earth and exclaiming 'wait, is it metabolism?', behind them is another astronaut about to shoot them, saying 'it has always been'
Indian pan cake batter in a pan.
Shows a picture of food on a plate: with fried bread with some chickpeas curry, and a few slices of raw onion, tomato and lemon
A table with various foods. Pani poori, chutneys, miso carrots, etc. On the side, a person is eating this
A bowl of bibimpap. It has seaweed, an omelette with sesame sprinkled. Some zucchini, cucumber, carrot, mushrooms, sprouts and guchojang bean paste.
It shows a black and white photo of a rally, and a woman with a handbag is about to smack a follically challenged man on the back of his head. The man in questions is holding a nazi flag. This happened in 1985 in Sweden.
A group of people assembled in front of a regal building, which happens to be the main building of the University of Vienna, in Austria. They are listening to a woman speak as part of the 'March for Science' event. This event and the march that followed was in solidarity with the scientists in the USA. There is a climate change banner showing the increasing global temperature in the blue-red colorbar in the centre stage.
A comic strip by Gary Larson. It's two T-Rex dinosaurs tucked into their bed, about to fall asleep. One says to the other 'Wait a minute ... Did I floss?'
In this comic strip from Calvin and Hobbs, Calvin is playing with a toy—a ball attached to a bat. He plays with it by bouncing the ball off the bat for a bit, but he isn't amused and comments, 'I can't help but wonder what kind of desperate straits would drive a man to invent this thing.'