The increasing integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has created relationships that are not adequately described as merely functional interactions between users and tools. Conversational systems, social robots and autonomous agents can be trusted, loved, relied upon and even moralized. Questions arise here about the nature of consciousness, about a psychological foundation...
The purpose of the paper is to re-interpret the Bhagavad Gita as a psychological document of an early time period, which anticipates some of the modern counseling, psychotherapeutic, emotional regulation and behavioural transformation theories. It has been proposed that Arjuna's vishada (emotional breakdown) represents some of the earliest recorded instances of emotional breakdown and that of...