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Brains and Realities

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Conventional neuroscience assumes that there is a real objective world ‘out
there’ and that the brain constructs a world that is representative of this
world. But how do we prove that? Do we use our three- dimensional instruments
to probe and our three-dimensional consciousness to verify?

Contrary to the conventional neuroscientific three-dimensional model,
cutting-edge physics tells us that the world ‘out there’ is multi-dimensional
and not solid but a cacophony of waveforms. The three-dimensional world
constructed by the brain is a reduction and a limited interpretation of what
is really out there. In Eastern religious philosophy and certain Western philosophies,
there is a bold assertion that what is out there is a paradoxical
‘full-void’ — i.e. a nothingness which contains everything. Apparently, this
void has been ‘experienced’ by mystics and advanced meditators — as recorded
quite extensively in religious scriptures and the metaphysical literature.
In this void, space and time are meaningless. The Surangama Sutra of
the Buddhists emphatically point out that location in space is illusionary.
Saint Augustine believed in an ever-present eternity which was not accessible
to humans. Both space and time may be illusions.

For a long time it was assumed that space and time were fundamental to
the underlying reality; but Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity toppled
this assumption. What we observe as space and what we observe as time
are now regarded as two aspects of a more fundamental spacetime continuum.
To what extent this continuum manifests as space and how much of it
manifests as time varies according to the relative motion of the observer. In
other words, they are both subject to our perception within specific frames
of reference which provide three-dimensional frameworks to structure our
mental image of the world. But we are perhaps deceiving ourselves when we
assume that they are also fundamental to the underlying reality.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

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Penerbit

Victoria : Trafford Publishing., 2006

Deskripsi Fisik

viii, 186 hlm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1412088771

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Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

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Subjek

PSIKOLOGI

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