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Is metaphysics meaningful?

Posted on 2 July, 2016 by amartingarcia

Is metaphysics meaningful? – Question 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 which … Continue reading →

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Consciousness and artificial intelligence

Posted on 26 October, 2015 by amartingarcia

Artificial intelligence by computers unlikely to produce consciousness as the intimate and irreducible reality it is.
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The status of concepts in Plato and Shankara

Posted on 7 October, 2015 by amartingarcia

Parallel account of the ontological status of concepts in Plato and Shankara. Continue reading →

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Creation or no creation – becoming or being

Posted on 28 November, 2014 by amartingarcia

If creation is into time, being is timeless. Does time exist? Or, like space, multiplicity, and causation they are just phenomena, appearances? Continue reading →

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Searching for her…

Posted on 19 April, 2014 by amartingarcia

Brink Of Eternity – Rabindranath Tagore In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be … Continue reading →

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The power of language (Shankara and Heidegger)

Posted on 12 April, 2014 by amartingarcia

Natalia Isayeva, in her book – ‘Shankara and Indian Philosophy’ – finds a parallel between Shankara and Heidegger with respect to language and meaning, in particular the later Heidegger, with his interest in, and focus on, the etymological and hermeneutical … Continue reading →

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Don’t wish for union!

Posted on 10 March, 2013 by amartingarcia

“Don’t wish for union! There’s a closeness beyond that. Why would God want a second God? Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. Love is the soul’s light, the taste of morning, No … Continue reading →

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SILENCE VI

Posted on 13 February, 2013 by amartingarcia

What to silence can be compared? In the room, all is quiet, peaceful. Not a movement or stirrings in the air…   The objects, as if consciousness filled, Appear distant yet close, intimate, Silent yet seeming to speak.   A … Continue reading →

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