An interesting project, albeit another certain extension for encoding the Book of Life. I will be watching to see if they principal investigators ultimately include input from Bergsonians, phenomenologists, yogis, and buddhist practitioners.
I would rather not be so suspicious, but my expectation is that the investigators will continue along the usual technoscientific hegemonic lines of ignoring those branches of world philosophy that conceptualize embodied mind in more than mechanical terms.
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