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Three Q&As In Quora
Three Q/A from QUORA (on brain, philosophy, QM, NDE, consciousness) 1 How does the brain understand philosophy? M. The brain… understanding philosophy? My reply to this is similar to the one I gave recently to another question and which was … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, science
Tagged awareness, body-mind, Brain, Consciousness, death, empirical research, experience, facts, NDE, phenomena, philosophy, QM, scientific arguments, Socrates, verification
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Is metaphysics meaningful?
Is metaphysics meaningful? (expanded from answer in Quora) Any hypothesis which predicts observations can in principle be tested scientifically. Take “metaphysics” to be the set of hypotheses about people and the universe which does not predict any observations, or none … Continue reading
Posted in Eastern philosophy, Mysticism, science, spirituality
Tagged Eastern religion, energy, knowledge, matter, meaning and purpose, non-duality, Physicalism, reality, religion, spirituality, tradition, Universe, wisdom
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Ars longa, vita brevis
Art is long and life short. Progress and the art of medicine – the first unquestionable, but questions about quality of life remain. Also shotcomings of science and technonolgy pointed out. Three Greek myths are adduced as warnings thereof. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mythology, philosophy, science
Tagged 'secrets of nature', medicine, mythology, philosophy, progress, robots, science
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Vedanta and Quantum Physics l
A Vedanta teacher who follows more tradtional lineage approach says this about Quantum Mechanics and Vedanta: (From Quora) “Quantum physics is right on the brink of establishing the non-dual nature of reality. The fundamentally dualistic approach of material science, however, … Continue reading
Posted in science, vedanta
Tagged awareness, Consciousness, knowledge, liberation, non-duality, Quantum physics, reality, Time and space
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Why is there a word “why”? (Quora)
Empirical scientists deny purpose – and reject the question ‘why’ – in nature. If there is but one intelligent being in the universe, cannot it be said that the universe is intelligent? Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, religion, science
Tagged Aristotle, cosmos, Creation, Intelligence, Intelligent design, Natural selection, purpose, teleology
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Philosophy vs. science
X. The philosophy that interests me – advaita vedanta – teaches that consciousness is the essence or ultimate reality of the universe, and that the world is contained in that consciousness (atman/Brahman) rather than consciousness being contained in the world, … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, science, vedanta
Tagged advaita, Aristotle, Consciousness, experience, Physicalism, science, Self-awareness, Theorisng
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Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime 