Chris Ash
Kapten Gars
Eftersom det varit en massa trådar om både universums beskaffenhet och även lite diskussioner om religion kontra vetenskap vill jag tipsa (bla Olzki) om den här boken. Wallace är en amerikansk fysiker som på senare år blivit buddhist. Det intressanta är att modern vetenskap först nu har samma förståelse om vissa saker som religiösa tänkare hade för tusentals år sedan. Som att tiden i sig skapades vid skapelsen, att tid-rum bara är en egenskap hos materia och att utanför universum finns intet, varken tid eller rum. Ledande vetenskapsmän har nu på 2000-talet börjat föra dialog med buddhister för att se vad de kan lära av varandra. Intressant och läsvärt som sagt....
Buddhism and Science - Breaking New Ground av Allan Wallace
"Distinguished philosophers, physicists, and cognitive scientists with the Dalai Lama and Buddhist scholars examine the connections and contrasts between the worlds of Western science and Buddhism.
The first section presents an historical overview of the key modes of inquiry, the second addresses points of intersection between Buddhism and the physical sciences; and the third the ways that Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other. Modern physics - most notably quantum mechanics - has raised profound epistemological and ontological issues that challenge many of the traditional assumptions underlying science as a whole. On the broadest level, this work illuminates multiple ways of exploring the nature of human identity, the mind, and the universe at large.
Contributions include: On the Relevance of a Contemplative Science by Matthieu Ricard; Buddhism and Science on the Afflictions of Identity by William Waldron; Time and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Quantum Physics by Victor Mansfield; Emptiness and Relativity by David Ritz Finkelstein; Encounters Between Buddhist and Quantum Epistemologies by Anton Zeilinger, Emptiness and Quantum Theory by William Ames; Science as an Ally or a Rival Philosophy? by Thubten Jinpa, and much more."
Buddhism and Science - Breaking New Ground av Allan Wallace
"Distinguished philosophers, physicists, and cognitive scientists with the Dalai Lama and Buddhist scholars examine the connections and contrasts between the worlds of Western science and Buddhism.
The first section presents an historical overview of the key modes of inquiry, the second addresses points of intersection between Buddhism and the physical sciences; and the third the ways that Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other. Modern physics - most notably quantum mechanics - has raised profound epistemological and ontological issues that challenge many of the traditional assumptions underlying science as a whole. On the broadest level, this work illuminates multiple ways of exploring the nature of human identity, the mind, and the universe at large.
Contributions include: On the Relevance of a Contemplative Science by Matthieu Ricard; Buddhism and Science on the Afflictions of Identity by William Waldron; Time and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Quantum Physics by Victor Mansfield; Emptiness and Relativity by David Ritz Finkelstein; Encounters Between Buddhist and Quantum Epistemologies by Anton Zeilinger, Emptiness and Quantum Theory by William Ames; Science as an Ally or a Rival Philosophy? by Thubten Jinpa, and much more."
