(forw) [ANetofJewels] Some more Fun & Games

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This is kinda neat. Is the implication such that to understand reality

one must move out of their thinking mind into the vastness of silence to

understand or perhaps more aptly to uncover reality the isness of all?

 

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"Sandeep Chatterjee" <sandeepc

ANetofJewels

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[ANetofJewels] Some more Fun & Games

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:30:25 +0530

 

Hi

 

Some fun and games from the world of Science.

 

Sandeep

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Excerpts From

 

 

SCIENCE AND U.G.

 

 

AN EXPOSITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF U.G.'S PHILOSOPHY

 

By

 

Dr. O. S. Reddy

 

 

In nature things are as they are.

Correlation is a concept which we use to describe the connections we

perceive. The word and concept of `correlation' have no significance apart

from people. This is because only people use words and concepts. Correlation

is a concept. Subatomic particles are correlations.

If we are not here to make them, there would not be any concepts, including

the concept of correlation.

The same is true of particles: if we were not here to make them, there would

not be any particles.

>From a pragmatic point of view nothing can be said about the world `out

there' except via our concepts. Even in the world of our concepts particles

do not have a separate and independent existence. They are represented by

wave functions (Schr"dinger's wave equation); and the meaning of the wave

function lies only in the correlation of other macroscopic things. Since the

wave function is thought to be a complete description of physical reality,

and since that which the wave function describes is an idea as well as

matter, the world cannot be as it appears.

 

A macroscopic object like a table or a chair has an experienced meaning.

That is, we organize our sensory perceptions directly in terms of it. These

experiences are such that we can believe that the object has an existence

and a well-defined location in space-time that is logically independent of

other things.

 

But the concept of independent existence evaporates at the subatomic level.

If it has an idea-like aspect, the physical world cannot be substantive in

the usual sense of the word.

 

One hundred percent matter is one hundred percent idea.

 

The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics states that the physical

world is not what it appears to be.

It states that what we perceive to be physical reality is actually our

cognitive construction of it.

This cognitive construction may appear to be substantive, but the Copenhagen

interpretation of quantum mechanics leads directly to the conclusion that

the physical world itself does not exist.

 

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The mind is such that it can only deal with ideas.

It is not possible for the mind to relate to anything other than ideas.

Therefore, it is not correct to think that the mind can actually ponder

reality.

All that the mind can ponder are its own ideas about reality.

Therefore, whether or not an idea is true is not a matter of how closely it

corresponds to the absolute reality, but how consistent it is with our

experience.

 

Even the Copenhagen interpreters of quantum mechanics were forced by their

own findings to acknowledge that a complete understanding of reality lies

beyond the capabilities of rational thought.

 

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The Copenhagen Interpretation and the Nature of Space and Time." American

Journal of Physics. 1977. pp.108-9.

 

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