The woods are lovely…

I have always felt in a profound way the beauty of Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening”. Who indeed hasnt? Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My [...]

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Advaita Vedanta: Four steps to a logical understanding of God/Brahman/Absolute.

In trying to form a metaphysical explanation for the world, we can argue through these four steps which lead ultimately to the Advaita Vedanta conception of god. 1. The world is a non-absolute or relative reality. 2. There is an absolute principle which exists beyond the world. 3. This absolute principle also forms the basis [...]

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Randomness vs Determinism part 2

Positions taken on determinism in modern times invariably have to contend with the fact that indeterminism has been proved quite comprehensively in the quantum world. Determinism however is maintained for the world at large by saying that quantum indeterminacy is a strange little phenomenon that is confined only to quantum events and has no relevancy [...]

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