Vedic Computation: Redefining Computer Science in the Light of Maharishi Vedic Science

Computer science has a unique and important role in today’s world. With its powerful synthesis of new tools and mechanisms through which to express our growing knowledge of natural law, it has extended and redefined many areas of life to create new disciplines, and new possibilities for the application and development of existing fields. This rapid development is based on progress in two fundamental areas; the discipline of computer science, and the increasing knowledge of natural law in the application areas. Together these have combined to give us new methods, and new depths and extents of inquiry and achievement. With this phenomenal growth in the capabilities and applications of computing, technology has expanded into areas critical to the safety and stability of our society. This raises important questions about the soundness of these foundations, and therefore the future development and applications of computer science and computing technologies. Issues of the correctness, limits, and applications of computation and computing systems are now vital to our future, yet cannot be resolved within the current scope of the discipline. This is because these fundamental issues require a clear understanding and precise description of the structures of intelligence expressed in computing systems, and this is not present in computer science, or any other modern scientific discipline. Maharishi Vedic Science, a science of the full range of intelligence including its representations in objective forms and its realizations in human awareness, provides a unique context for understanding and resolving these problems. Because it provides both a theoretical model and practical techniques for investigating the abstract structure of intelligence and principles of Natural Law common to all application areas, it encompasses and integrates the areas of application knowledge and computational representations. Reconsidering the fundamental structure of the discipline of computer science and its applications in computing systems in this context, results in new and more comprehensive understanding of the status and future of the entire field of computing.