Mayavada, the science

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Hi all,

 

I found the thread on Mayavada quite illuminating, even though at some points it

sounded a bit like the "my father can beat your father" argument.

 

Here's something some of you may find interesting in relation to Mayavada. It is

excerpted from a BBC lecture, given by Dr. Velyanur Ramachandran, a leading

neuroscientist.

 

"Third, maybe the solution to the problem of the self won't be a straightforward

empirical one. It may instead require a radical shift in perspective, the sort

of thing that Einstein did when he rejected the assumption that things can move

at arbitrarily high velocities. When we finally achieve such a shift in

perspective, we may be in for a big surprise and find that the answer was

staring at us all along. I don't want to sound like a New Age guru, but there

are curious parallels between this idea and the Hindu philosophical view that

there is no essential difference between self and others or that the self is an

illusion."

 

I recommend the entire lecture series to all scientifically inclined Indians. It

is here:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lectures.shtml

 

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