Nice one Thaths Take THAT Rene:
(About the Cârvâkas) "This school is also essentially materialistic. It denies any sort of soul, and furthermore, any other world to which the soul supposedly migrates after death. Only the four material elements of earth, water, fire, and air are real, and thus human beings are also only made of these elements. ... Critiques of the Lokâyata system ask how this can be the case, especially since the material elements are unconscious, while a human has consciousness. How can this phenomenon be explained without use of some spiritual element? The Cârvâkas defend their position in several ways. First, they contend that stating that a new quality cannot emerge from a combination of base elements is an assumption – such cases exist. Their example appears in the above quote of the Sarvadarœanasamgraha, where the new intoxicating quality appears in liquor when one mixes ingredients devoid of such a quality in a particular manner." Just as the RSS claims that all nuclear science was described in the vedas, I hereby proclaim that the ancient 'indoos knew all about emergence and complex systems :-) -- Sujai Kumar . www.ylog.org/sujai . +91 9312065118
