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उपदेश-सारः 24
ईशजीवयोर्वेष धी-भिदा ।
सत्स्वरूपतो वस्तु केवलम् ॥
--
īśajīvayorveṣa dhī-bhidā |
satsvarūpato vastu kevalam ||
--
Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counter-intuitive."
-DANIEL C. DENNETT, The Intentional Stance
(Cambridge, M A 1987, p.6)
.
He [Ludwig Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question :
"Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?"
I replied :
"I suppose, because it looked as if the sun went round the earth."
"Well", he asked, :
"What would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?"
-ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE,
An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (London 1959, p.151).
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You never think, Thought happens, and one fails to see thought 'happening'.
And the mind gets carried by the after-effect thought exerts upon it.
Thought is a functioning, a mechanism that takes place in brain. And this happens because of the fact that could be detected and even 'read' exactly in the same way and as much correctly as could be done by any extremely sensitive, accurate delicate scientific instrument that detects and registers any other such physical activity taking place anywhere in our field of observation and investigation.
We can thus classify this activity, -namely 'thought', in two major kinds, -voluntary and involuntary.
Reading a text or a news-item is recognized by the brain and then is interpreted in terms of the comparison of the same with the information stored in the memory.
This information is again of two kinds :
-of the verbal form,
-in the form of the earlier impressions left upon the mind in the memory by the earlier such information.
Just as the brain does so through 'thought',the mind (that comprises of feelings, experiences emotions) also responds in its own specific way.
The scientists say, they have found out a 'location' in the physical body of man, where 'thought' happens and even more point out the exact place where the particular 'I-thought' / 'ego' / the notion of being a person / individual, emanates from.
(THE EGO TUNNEL : THOMAS METZINGER)
In scientific terms, this tallies and proves the same as has been frequently pointed out by Sri Ramana Maharshi in His Teachings.
God, as we so far know about 'God', is a myth, -a thought, a notion only and we hardly know what do we mean by this word. Neither in terms of perception, information, experience or a scientific fact.
Still it may prove an effective tool in removing the false notion of 'I-thought' / 'ego' that keeps the mind its captive and is the cause of all misery, confusion and sorrow.
--
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उपदेश-सारः 24
ईशजीवयोर्वेष धी-भिदा ।
सत्स्वरूपतो वस्तु केवलम् ॥
--
īśajīvayorveṣa dhī-bhidā |
satsvarūpato vastu kevalam ||
--
Any theory that makes progress is bound to be initially counter-intuitive."
-DANIEL C. DENNETT, The Intentional Stance
(Cambridge, M A 1987, p.6)
.
He [Ludwig Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question :
"Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?"
I replied :
"I suppose, because it looked as if the sun went round the earth."
"Well", he asked, :
"What would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?"
-ELIZABETH ANSCOMBE,
An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (London 1959, p.151).
--
You never think, Thought happens, and one fails to see thought 'happening'.
And the mind gets carried by the after-effect thought exerts upon it.
Thought is a functioning, a mechanism that takes place in brain. And this happens because of the fact that could be detected and even 'read' exactly in the same way and as much correctly as could be done by any extremely sensitive, accurate delicate scientific instrument that detects and registers any other such physical activity taking place anywhere in our field of observation and investigation.
We can thus classify this activity, -namely 'thought', in two major kinds, -voluntary and involuntary.
Reading a text or a news-item is recognized by the brain and then is interpreted in terms of the comparison of the same with the information stored in the memory.
This information is again of two kinds :
-of the verbal form,
-in the form of the earlier impressions left upon the mind in the memory by the earlier such information.
Just as the brain does so through 'thought',the mind (that comprises of feelings, experiences emotions) also responds in its own specific way.
The scientists say, they have found out a 'location' in the physical body of man, where 'thought' happens and even more point out the exact place where the particular 'I-thought' / 'ego' / the notion of being a person / individual, emanates from.
(THE EGO TUNNEL : THOMAS METZINGER)
In scientific terms, this tallies and proves the same as has been frequently pointed out by Sri Ramana Maharshi in His Teachings.
God, as we so far know about 'God', is a myth, -a thought, a notion only and we hardly know what do we mean by this word. Neither in terms of perception, information, experience or a scientific fact.
Still it may prove an effective tool in removing the false notion of 'I-thought' / 'ego' that keeps the mind its captive and is the cause of all misery, confusion and sorrow.
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