Rāmānuja was the founder of Visistādvaita Vedānta School, which is one of the three main schools of Vedānta. According to Rāmānuja, the soul (cit), Brahman, and matter (acit) constitute the three principal ontological realities. Rāmānuja provides some proofs for the existence of the soul, which are mostly based on self-consciousness. The relationship of the soul with the matter, on one hand, an...

We propose a method for building a knowledge base addressing specific issues such as covering an end-users’ need and reuse non-ontological sources such as thesauri or classifications. After designing an ontology module representing the knowledge needed by end-users, we enrich and populate it automatically with knowledge extracted from existing sources. The originality of our proposition is to p...

At every level of the visual system - from retina to cortex - information is encoded in the activity of large populations of cells. The populations are not uniform, but contain many different types of cells, each with its own sensitivities to visual stimuli. Understanding the roles of the cell types and how they work together to form collective representations has been a long-standing goal. Thi...