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  • Philosophy

    Defining the ontological realism of a phenomenon should be independent of the observer and the ideologies. This type of approaches were done by esoteric oriental philosophies, such as Yogic and Buddhist traditions. The Buddhist atomism is founded by questioning mind and conception of a phenomenon, by Acharya Nagarjuna and Dharmakirti [1,2]. The very nature of existence and the emptiness were deeply discussed. In a way, it might be the predecessor of modern occidental reasoning [3,4], and even the Socratic school of reasoning is mainly based on the observer and definition of ‘tangible’ things. But going along the direction of oriental philosophies, we could see the ‘incompleteness’ of our knowledge about the nature. Acharya Nagarjuna describes the existences of phenomena in his sutras: Mulamadhyamikakarika and Shunyatasaptatikarikanama. The concept of self-existence or non-self-existence of a phenomenon is inevitable and ‘all’ phenomena are devoid of inherent existence, since the phenomena depend on causes and conditions, and are empty. For example, we represent phenomena as physical reality; according to ontological realism, knowledge of physical quantity does not necessarily represent the physical reality, where the interaction of the observing object is not considered. Also, consistency in the definition of the system, in the relational way [5,6], is not necessarily complete. Dialogues of Einstein et al [7,8], look for the objective reality, ontology of the physical system (without observer) itself, knowledge of the observer is not included. Hence the incompleteness of the Copenhagen interpretation can be seen. By realizing the once-thought-unrealizable systems are opening newer possibilities, despite that, we are limited either by nature or by our epistemological and empirical knowledges; in such cases, by reviewing and comparing the ancient, at the same time esoteric, knowledge could give a different perception, which may be relevant. A small article about this discussion can be seen here.

    • References
      1. David Ross Komito. Nagarjuna’s “Seventy Stanzas”. Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, USA, 1987
      2. Rene Descartes. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Project Gutenberg (1993), http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59, 1637.
      3. Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason. Project Gutenberg (2003) : Translator – J. M. D. Meiklejohn, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4280, 1781
      4. Michele Caponigro and Ravi Prakash. Interpretations of quantum mechanics and emptiness. NeuroQuantology, 7:198–203, 2009
      5. Carol Rovelli. Relational quantum mechanics. Intl. J. Theor. Phys, 35:1637–1678, 1996
      6. A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen. Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? Phys. Rev., 47(10):777–780, May 1935.
      7. N. Bohr. Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered complete? Phys. Rev., 48(8):696–702, Oct 1935.
  • Linguistics

    Also I have started learning about linguistics, after entering into quantum information theory. Therefore I am interested in linguistics in the points of view of information science and anthropology. I mostly follow the works on Indus/Harappan scripts from Indus Valley Civilization. An ‘adiaaaabatically grooooowing’ resource-letter-type-notes on the subject can be viewed here.

  • Wireless Operator

    HAM- with the callsign VU3CTO. And I am very interested in the the designs of QRP and QRO radios and antennae systems.

  • Musings on Prakrti

    I write poems and articles; mostly I write in Tamil, on web magazines like, Thinnai and Adhikalai; a few of them can be seen in my blog.

  • Pencil Sketching

    I keep learning to do pencil sketches, some of them are here