I don't know why you think I am denouncing Indian thought. If anything,
I have a lot of admiration for Indian thought and philosophy. You should
not presume to know what other people believe.
Anand
P.S. More here :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/334
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/334>
--- In [email protected], Chetan Nagendra <chetan@...> wrote:>
> No, I was just responding to your penitent preoccupation with Western
ideology, while denouncing several thousand years of so-called Indian
non-scientific thought.
>
> On 27 Mar 2011, at 18:55, manikuttyanand wrote:
>
> > I think you are implying that atomic/molecular physics is a
complicated subject, but perhaps I am not understanding you.
> >
> > Anand
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Chetan Nagendra chetan@ wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
>
