Technology to Choose Debate Winner!
Referring to one of the greatest philosophical debate of ancient India between the young Shankaracharya and the elderly Mandana Misra, PM Modi talks about the importance of dialogue, without anger and conflict, for the resolution of today’s problems.
I had posted this earlier on Jul 12, 2017: Dialog Without Anger
To the utter surprise of everyone present, the judge of the debate, chosen by Shankaracharya was Ubhaya Bharati, wife of Mandana Misra and a prominent scholar herself! Equally remarkable and extraordinary was the criterion chosen by Ubhaya Bharati to determine the winner of the debate.
She gave each scholar a flower garland to wear and said that these two garlands will decide your victory and defeat! Bharati explained that whenever a scholar senses defeat in the debate he starts getting angry and the flower dries up because of the heat of the anger!
I had posted this earlier on Jul 12, 2017: Dialog Without Anger
Now I would like to use PM Modi's talk again by highlighting another aspect of the debate.
To the utter surprise of everyone present, the judge of the debate, chosen by Shankaracharya was Ubhaya Bharati, wife of Mandana Misra and a prominent scholar herself! Equally remarkable and extraordinary was the criterion chosen by Ubhaya Bharati to determine the winner of the debate.
She gave each scholar a flower garland to wear and said that these two garlands will decide your victory and defeat! Bharati explained that whenever a scholar senses defeat in the debate he starts getting angry and the flower dries up because of the heat of the anger!
At the end of the debate Ubhaya Bharati declared Shankaracharya as the winner. She pointed out that the garland around her husband's neck has withered due to the heat of his anger, while the flowers of Shankaracharya's garland are still fresh as before. Shankaracharya has also conquered anger!
I think in our TV channel debates we should adopt this ancient practice of objectively choosing the winner. Every panelist should be given a garland made of skin temperature sensors to wear on the neck that will change color from blue to red for everyone to see, when he loses his cool and gets angry!
Or it could be a hidden sensor that will communicate with an app to display appropriate color changes on the screen around each panelist's head as a hallow! I invite some startups to come up with an appropriate sensor technology supported by an AI-based software to make this idea into a reality soon!
I think in our TV channel debates we should adopt this ancient practice of objectively choosing the winner. Every panelist should be given a garland made of skin temperature sensors to wear on the neck that will change color from blue to red for everyone to see, when he loses his cool and gets angry!
Or it could be a hidden sensor that will communicate with an app to display appropriate color changes on the screen around each panelist's head as a hallow! I invite some startups to come up with an appropriate sensor technology supported by an AI-based software to make this idea into a reality soon!
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