Most certainly. Huxley was a great fan of Indian philosophy and published various articles on the Vedanta school. Soma was a huge part of Indian cultu...
I think there's a sort of golden rule when it comes to humans and technology: Any technology will be used and abused in a way that wasn't intended. Si...
On some very basic level, we define things through what they aren't. We need to compare X with not X to know what X is. If you were born with no sense...
The burger was not my point. The burger was me catching on to the burger joke. My point was that you fail to give any argument why materialism might b...
How did we get from burgers to things magically appearing? You got me confused from the introduction. Are you trying to explain here why burgers and o...
I'm pretty sure every principle of eastern philosophy is also considered and/or represented somewhere along the line of greek philosophy. Maybe I'll w...
I don't see this at all. Imo science has been on the rise for 8000 years now. It has to repeatedly reinvent itself. At times it may have become stagna...
Indeed, what we do have is something like a "common reality". Through our common biology, we can confirm that we experience roughly the same things. T...
The only option available to us is a subjective experience of reality to begin with. I believe the problems we encounter as a collective whole have th...
I think not. I see it as the most pragmatic thing to do. If there is some truth to what I believe then believing is the best thing I can do. If there ...
This. Cognitive abilities develop over a lifetime. How can I make a decision if my basis for decision making hasn't been established yet? Even if we w...
There is the theory of embodied cognition, which suggests that cognitive processes are not limited to the brain but draw from aspects of the entire bo...
A big majority of bird species live monogamously. It's also displayed in monkeys and apes. Gibbons are a notable example. Many canines have a tendency...
Our relationship with death is strongly defined by our expectations of death, i.e. our beliefs. Fear of death may be humanly intrinsic, blind faith ha...
In polytheistic religions, gods are often flawed and no big deal is made out of it. There, it is hardly a matter of incompetence rather than character...
The Buddha does something similar. I'd argue that Siddhartha Gautama very much opted to live on in maya as well. In terms of enlightenment, there is a...
Buddha Gautama, as far as I am aware, speaks very little of Maya. Maya is a concept that stems from Hinduism and it has changed it's meaning over time...
If anything, rather than a Paradox, I think this nicely showcases the validity of the Four Noble Truths. It's not exactly maya that induces dukkha, ra...
Instead of courage, why don't you show us some math? You present your theory as if it was fact without anything backing it up. You didn't observe it, ...
I'd say if transcending time is a possibility, then you're most likely in the process of doing exactly that, although you wouldn't know it? Time is an...
Immediately a quote from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad came to my mind. It's not "Know thyself" rather than "Love thyself" but I think it goes in a sim...
And does the brain not direct the flow of information? The programming in this sense is the brains chemistry. Sensory input is received, a neuron sign...
For quotes, you just need to mark the text you want to quote from a user, then next to the marked text will popup a button "Quote". Consider a person ...
It has nothing to do with simplicity. An analog computer uses an analog signal. It means that I have a continuous input in some shape and form - be it...
See: It's true that the process of the brain is intangible. As the Upanishads put it: "You cannot see That which is the Seer of seeing; you cannot hea...
While dreamless sleep is the first and immediate comparison to death that comes to mind, your statement would imply that anytime I go into dreamless s...
This! The article does well in showcasing how the narrative and context of our time changes the way how we see ourselves. However, discrediting such a...
It can as well. As I said, the line between "Creator" and "Essence" are often blurred in that sense. Self-Creation is an essential theme for both of t...
That really depends on your definition of god. Traditionally, in historic religions, there are two types of god. "The Creator God" - Who put his craft...
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