Dalton, Thompson. Crap.
On 26 Mar 2011, at 17:19, Anand Manikutty wrote: > > Some day when I can afford to not hold down a full time job I'd like > > to get some formal training in Philosophy even though my > > current instinct is to hate it for its eminent unsuitability to tackling > > the subject. > I respectfully disagree that that is the job of philosophers really. This is > really about cosmology. Whether or not the universe is a hologram is a > question best left to physicists. > > Pace Paramarthananda, ideas related to the reality of the Universe in > premodern Indian texts (the Advaita of Sankara, et cetera) do not have a > basis in the scientific method. The revolution in our understanding of the > nature of matter came with the work of Dalton, Thompson, et cetera. We have > some comments on these strands of opinion in the teaching materials > accompanying our book "The Essence of Leadership". > > In a nutshell, we don't believe that there is much to be gained from studying > premodern Indian history if the aim is to gain a better understanding of the > nature of the universe. > > Anand > P.S. More (to follow) here : > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/324 > >
