Author name: Dwaipayan Pradhan

Nature of the Physical World – Interconnectedness

Everything in the universe is interconnected and interdependent (इयं पृथिवी सर्वेषां भूतानां मध्वस्यै पृथिव्यैसर्वाणि भूतानि मधु….etc). Thus, knowledge of anything cannot be in isolation, but must be with relation to everything else – differentiated from all others in the form ‘x’ not ‘y’ (मधु – मन्यन्ते विशेषेण जानन्ति जना यस्मिन्). This leads to the complementarity

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On Cells and Consciousness

by Basudeba Mishra The cell is highly secular. Pointing to its multi-layered, hierarchically nested, decision-making labyrinth of cellular consciousness, some people imply that functioning of cells can be equated with consciousness – a holograph of consciousness, which they describe as Mother Nature and we as the Consciousness sea. They equate its functional normality (अप्रमाद) or

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On Causality

There is much confusion regarding causality – specifically backwards-in-time causality. Also how consciousness is derived from causality. We will clarify these issues.In our paper for the Kathmandu conference during April 2015, we had discussed causality to show that backwards-in-time causality is impossible. Consider an example: A + B → C + D. Here a force

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