Timelessness and Time Dependence of Human Consciousness From a Scientific Western Viewpoint
Timelessness and Time Dependence of Human Consciousness From a Scientific Western Viewpoint出 版 物：《Journal of Philosophy Study》 (哲学研究（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第8期
页 面：525-536页
学科分类：12[管理学] 01[哲学] 0101[哲学-哲学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 010108[哲学-科学技术哲学]
主 题：consciousness meditation timelessness time dependence quantum mechanics eastern philosophy western philosophy of science
摘 要：Eastern philosophy and western science have convergent and divergent viewpoints for their explanation of consciousness. Convergence is found for the practice of meditation allowing besides a time dependent consciousness, the experience of a timeless consciousness and its beneficial effect on psychological wellbeing and medical improvements, which are confirmed by multiple scientific publications. Theories of quantum mechanics with non-locality and timelessness also show astonishing correlation to eastern philosophy, such as the theory of Penrose-Hameroff （ORC-OR）, which explains consciousness by reduction of quantum superposition in the brain. Divergence appears in the interpretation of the subjective experience of timeless consciousness. In eastern philosophy, meditation at a higher level of awareness allows the personal experience of timeless and non-dual consciousness, considered as an empirical proof for the existence of pure consciousness or spirituality existing before the material world and creating it by design. Western science acknowledges the subjective, non-dual experience, and its multiple beneficial effects, however, the interpretation of spirituality designing the material universe is in disagreement with the Darwinian Theory of mutation and selection. A design should create an ideal universe without the injustice of 3% congenital birth defects and later genetic health problems. The western viewpoint of selection is more adapted to explain congenital errors. The gap between subjectivity and objectivity, the mind-body problem, is in eastern philosophy reduced to the dominance of subjectivity over objectivity, whereas western science attributes equal values to both. Nevertheless, there remains an astonishing complementarity between eastern and western practices.
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