An excellent post by Scott Preston draws attention to a plothora of ontological issues covering diverse subjects with wide ranging implications for life and society. It also alerts not to take things for granted as huge technological overhaul might be in the offing as part of evolutionary progress.
Thus, more of human cooperation and unity as advised by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo should be the order of the day. Dr. R.L. Kashyap being awarded Padma Shri can be seen as a symbol of such an inevitability. TNM 26.01.21
Misc. References
1. The Chrysalis - Everything You Thought You Knew…. - For those of you who follow such matters, you may perhaps have realised that something akin to a second Copernican Revolution is occurring in the sciences ...
The presumed material basis of reality is being subdued the recognition of the primacy of energy. With that shift, the old “mind-body” problem fd metaphysical dualism that has shadowed and bedeviled much modern thinking begins to fade away as a non-problem. It won’t be resolved because it was never a real problem to begin with.
The presumed material basis of reality is being subdued the recognition of the primacy of energy. With that shift, the old “mind-body” problem fd metaphysical dualism that has shadowed and bedeviled much modern thinking begins to fade away as a non-problem. It won’t be resolved because it was never a real problem to begin with.
2. Scott Preston on
3. Beyond true and false
Buddhist philosophy is full of contradictions. Now modern logic is learning why that might be a good thing - Graham Priest
Western philosophers have not, on the whole, regarded Buddhist thought with much enthusiasm. As a colleague once said to me: ‘It’s all just mysticism.’ This attitude is due, in part, to ignorance. But it is also due to incomprehension. When Western philosophers look East, they find things they do not understand – not least the fact that the Asian traditions seem to accept, and even endorse, contradictions.
An abhorrence of contradiction has been high orthodoxy in the West for more than 2,000 years... Yet Western philosophers are slowly learning to outgrow their parochialism. And help is coming from a most unexpected direction: modern mathematical logic, not a field that is renowned for its tolerance of obscurity.
Paradox. It’s another indication of a major shift in thinking, and this article by Graham Priest entitled “Beyond True and False” attempts to explain why that is so.