Challenge: How can an agent composed of a separate observer and an actor, part of a social system with symbolic knowledge, learn to act in a way that accurately estimates its environment without dramatically changing it?
INSPIRATION
"Two birds living together, each the friend of the other, perch upon the same tree.
Of these two, one eats the sweet fruit of the tree, but the other simply looks on without eating."
COMMENTARY:
- The two birds are the Jiva and Isvara, both existing in an individual compared to a tree.
- They exist together as the reflection and the original.
- They both manifest themselves in different ways in every individual.
- From the characteristics of the Jiva it is possible to infer the nature of Isvara, and from the nature of Isvara it is possible to determine the potentialities of the Jiva.
- Both the Jiva and Isvara have a common substratum which is Brahman and which is the reality of both.
SOURCE:
Mundaka Upanishad, 3rd Mundaka, 1st Khanda, shruti 1; Shwekishwatara Upanishad, 4th Adhyāya, shruti 6.
