How Machine Learning Connects With Meditation or Vipassana

Kasia Borowska, co-founder and managing director at Brainpool AI took us through an interesting analogy between vipassana and machine learning to attain equanimity, at Rising 2020. With a degree in mathematics and cognitive sciences, she is also deeply immersed in the world of vipassana, India’s most ancient meditation techniques which has been in practice for more than 2500 years. And it was during her learnings in meditation, she found that machine learning is in fact, in many ways similar to attaining vipassana.  “Understanding that your brain is an extremely sophisticated machine learning system can help us acknowledge and come to peace with whatever happens to us,” she said.  The Uncanny Similarities Highlighting some of the similarities between meditation and