The interior of the brain (as the ‘mind’) is infinite in its ability to imagine, but none of what it imagines is a) real, or
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The interior of the brain (as the ‘mind’) is infinite in its ability to imagine, but none of what it imagines is a) real, or
Dear Gillian A question that interests me, is the extent to which conscious awareness, if at all, affects the atoms and molecules surrounding the living individual.
There is so much mystery to be understood in the material world, that inventing other realities is not necessary. We, as a species have perceived the atom, peered inside it and realised its ethereal nature.
Ludwig Boltzmann, being fully aware that atoms had to be ‘statistically’ proven to exist, exercised his particular genius, and developed a mathematical formula which proved the existence and behaviour of atoms.
If Buddhism is viewed as a ‘religion’ – and the Buddha as a ‘theistic’ being – then Buddhism has nothing to do with modern science,
In a very real sense, materially based science has seen beyond its own limited methodology, and proven its original models of the physical universe to be redundant. Simply put, (and a point of argument correctly made by the idealists and religionists), matter is not what humanity thinks it is.