Physics Final Paper; Keith Beckstein
A Comparative View of Eastern and Western World Views
Consciousness in either an Eastern or Western perspective is
based on the paradigm each creates in order to describe the universe about us.
In other words consciousness is manifested by the observer comparing one thing
to another. This paper is going to observe how these views are different and
are melding to new description of the universe.
In western culture consciousness is based on the evidence of what it believes it can weigh and measure. There is a historical progression of what western culture believes it can weigh and measure. This began with vessels that held water, then scales. To today’s instrument; huge accelerators made to measuring what we be believe to be matter. This creates a consciousness describing the parts that making up the whole the universe. Scientific method tries to observe the world one part at a time.
Eastern cultural consciousness is founded in the concept that the universe is an inseparable whole. This is a consciousness that believes any experiences is not separate from the whole.
Therefore it cannot weigh one experience in comparison to another. Instead it observe the world around us in continuous integrated relationship. Yin and Yang, the five elements are interdependent of each in making any observation. This concepts do not observe singularity rather how are concepts work with the integrated whole. It does not seek a controlled order of the world like western science does. It is sees the universe as a living event in motion, only to be experienced. In eastern spiritual practices of meditation and stillness have created many symbolic and written descriptions of the universe which are analogous to mathematical descriptions of the universe.
The constructs of western and eastern languages reflected right and left brain perspectives, respectively. These reflectivity lend support the different description they give to life and the universe.
Both western and eastern spiritual practice have create symbols and myths to describe life in our universe. Historical observation shows they sometimes are analogous to descriptions given by scientific method. Often times they were created long before the scientific observations they parallel. Examples are the I-Ching a mathematic system of divination based on 64 hexagrams and the 64-oodon structure of human DNA. The Mandalas of Buddhism ad Hinduism turn out to be reflective of the dimensional math innovated by Albert Einstein, still being studied by physicists’ today. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life corresponding to the 11- dimensional universal postulate of string theory. And final we move to the descriptive spirals of history and physic contemporary theory of fractals and chaos theory.
So as this is all a matter of synchronicity of how both views are interwoven and connect. The difference is form the western point of view is an attempt to predict the weather. An in the humor of life the eastern view says when you are trying to control matters of the universe there is a gap in your consciousness and you are no longer experiencing it.
In western culture consciousness is based on the evidence of what it believes it can weigh and measure. There is a historical progression of what western culture believes it can weigh and measure. This began with vessels that held water, then scales. To today’s instrument; huge accelerators made to measuring what we be believe to be matter. This creates a consciousness describing the parts that making up the whole the universe. Scientific method tries to observe the world one part at a time.
Eastern cultural consciousness is founded in the concept that the universe is an inseparable whole. This is a consciousness that believes any experiences is not separate from the whole.
Therefore it cannot weigh one experience in comparison to another. Instead it observe the world around us in continuous integrated relationship. Yin and Yang, the five elements are interdependent of each in making any observation. This concepts do not observe singularity rather how are concepts work with the integrated whole. It does not seek a controlled order of the world like western science does. It is sees the universe as a living event in motion, only to be experienced. In eastern spiritual practices of meditation and stillness have created many symbolic and written descriptions of the universe which are analogous to mathematical descriptions of the universe.
The constructs of western and eastern languages reflected right and left brain perspectives, respectively. These reflectivity lend support the different description they give to life and the universe.
Both western and eastern spiritual practice have create symbols and myths to describe life in our universe. Historical observation shows they sometimes are analogous to descriptions given by scientific method. Often times they were created long before the scientific observations they parallel. Examples are the I-Ching a mathematic system of divination based on 64 hexagrams and the 64-oodon structure of human DNA. The Mandalas of Buddhism ad Hinduism turn out to be reflective of the dimensional math innovated by Albert Einstein, still being studied by physicists’ today. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life corresponding to the 11- dimensional universal postulate of string theory. And final we move to the descriptive spirals of history and physic contemporary theory of fractals and chaos theory.
So as this is all a matter of synchronicity of how both views are interwoven and connect. The difference is form the western point of view is an attempt to predict the weather. An in the humor of life the eastern view says when you are trying to control matters of the universe there is a gap in your consciousness and you are no longer experiencing it.
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