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The Interactive Mind in the Participatory Universe |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY |
| Author: Henry Skolimowski |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 8,988 Words, 51,558 Characters |
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The universe does not exist "out there" independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.
--John Archibald Wheeler
Mind is indeed the source of bondage and is also the source of liberation
--Maitri Upanishad
Reconstructing the Background knowledge Situation
Of the lasting mysteries of the universe, the mind is one. The mind is not the slayer of the real, as some Hindu traditions maintain. It is the creator of the real. Whatever we know, we know through the agency of the mind. The mystery of the mind is thus doubly profound: not only is it an extraordinary creation of nature--exquisite and puzzling i...
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...e clearly. We always redefine ourselves when we redefine the world around us; and vice versa. This continuous, oscillating, self-referential process is a part of our perplexity and our intellectual agony. We are the instruments on which the cosmos plays. We are, at the same time, the audience which listens to the symphony played by the cosmos on the instrument which we are ourselves. vbcrlf
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