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Dr. Loriliai Biernacki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences<\/a> hosted Dr. Loriliai Biernacki, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for a lecture on \u201cA Yogurt Model of the Self: Robot Bodies and Tantric Bodies,\u201d as part of the Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, Huntington Lecture Series. Dr. Biernacki\u2019s \u201cyogurt model of the self\u201d explores incarnation as fermentation between the body, soul, mind, and self.<\/p>\n

At one point in her lecture, Dr. Biernacki looked to the future of AI, examining Dr. Ray Kurzweil\u2019 prediction that humans will achieve immortality by downloading our consciousnesses into silicon and metal bodies by 2045. Metals affect which microbes flourish and which do not, and some models of the transhuman body may negate the presence of a microbiome, altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe metal our cyborg bodies are made of will affect our emotions, our choices, our own sense of self,\u201d said Biernacki.<\/p>\n

Biernacki\u2019s \u201cyogurt model\u201d emphasizes the entwinement of the physical and subtle bodies, and echoes interdisciplinarity of her research into intersections in science and religion.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrawing on biological understandings of the body as a community of microorganisms in symbiotic relationship with human cells, Professor Biernacki argued that what we know as \u2018self\u2019 is highly dependent on our physical embodiment, even as many of those microorganisms cannot live outside of our bodies, either.\u00a0 The idea that we might be able to transfer our consciousness into a robotic metal body is therefore highly problematic,\u201d\u00a0 said Dr. Nancy Martin, Professor of Religious Studies, Department Chair.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another example, Dr. Biernacki explored the Tantric \u201c\u2018subtle body,\u201d consisting of chakras connected by channels, as a body contained within<\/i> the physical body. Our body participates in and affects consciousness; this interchange denies a separate and distinct body and mind.<\/p>\n

Dr. Biernacki recounted the story of Sankara, a Hindu Monk and practiced Yogi, leaving his body to inhabit a king\u2019s in order to experience the pleasures of sex. Finding himself trapped within the king\u2019s body, Sankara begins to change under the influence of the new, physical form. Like the \u201csubtle body\u201d affects the physical body it inhabits and vice versa, so too does the microbiome affect the psyche. \u201cWho we are emotionally, psychologically, and intellectually,\u201d said Biernacki, \u201cdepends on the microbes in our gut.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the majority of our bodies contain countless, microbial beings, how can a \u201cself\u201d exist? \u201cMicrobial inhabitants outnumber our own cells 10 to 1,\u201d Dr. Biernacki stated, quoting David Relman, Professor of Microbiology at Stanford University.<\/p>\n

\u201cMicrobes, even as they are influenced by biology, in turn push back against the body\u2019s biology, steering it in a particular direction. One of the historical driving desires of yoga in India, especially Tantra, was to rework the idea of the binary to move toward recognition of a multiplicity of agencies within the body.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Huntington Lectureship, established in 1994 in honor of Professor Ron Huntington, brings prominent scholars in world religions to lecture at Chapman. Dr. Biernacki\u2019s research examines Hinduism, the interface between religion and science, and gender. Her latest book, The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta\u2019s Panentheism and New Materialism<\/i><\/a>, on the 11th century Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta, is available at Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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