All right.

Beautiful day and a funny topic.

If you have seen the subject, it's it from bit from chit.

Whatever does that mean?

I'm just reminded of Sri Ramakrishna and this works only in Bengali.

Sri Ramakrishna, when he heard English, at that time the British were there in India, in Calcutta,

and when Sri Ramakrishna heard English, he said it sounded to him like, he said, in Bengali,

Kishav eat meat, eat, meat mit, something like that, you know.

Anyway, so where does this subject come from?

What happened was a couple of, just a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, we had this

online discussion with David Chalmers, who is the head of the

mind-brain consciousness unit at NYU here. We're a leading philosopher of mind in the world today.

And the person who coined the term hard problem of consciousness.

So while talking about that, this came up, this phrase, it from bit, it meaning just this

universe, this it, the material universe, and bit meaning information.

I'll tell you where this phrase comes from originally.

But anyway, the subject came up, it from bit. And it just struck me, well, even bit, it comes

from consciousness, from an adwaitic perspective. So consciousness, chit. So it from bit from chit.

Chit means consciousness in Sanskrit, pure consciousness.

And David laughed aloud and he said, that's good.

And then I said, it sounds like a good subject for a talk, maybe I'll do that.

And he said, you should, you really should do that talk.

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