Basics – When Quantum Theory Meets Eastern Philosophy

When I was attending seminars at the Institute for Strategic Research Hungary I’ve met a very interesting teacher, a quantum physicist having deep live experiences in Eastern Philosophy.

Dino has an interesting theory about how our world is working, presented both from Western and Eastern points of view.

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Quantum research says the atoms and other quantum Objects, when they exists in deep silence, without no Observer and Observation, they are showing all their attributes, all their existence. They are in superposition.
Once there is Observation and there is an Observer Objects will show just those characteristics the Observer can realise, measure, understand, comprehend. All other attributes of the Object, for those the Observer has no interfaces cannot be perceived.

This means for us, anything and everything in the world can be perceived if we have all the necessary interfaces to realise, measure, understand and comprehend.

In our world today Western scientists are following this way of cognition, they are dreaming and developing more and more interfaces to know the world better.

In contrast Eastern philosophers, not scientists, are taking the easier way. They have realised the interfaces of the Observer and the attributes of the Object could be infinite, therefore an infinite number of interfaces would be necessary to achieve the total cognition. Achieving these interfaces requires much more time a Human has in his lifetime.

They reduced the problem to (almost an) absurdum: what happens if there are no interfaces at all? If there is just the Object and the Observer, both in deep silence, and there is no Observation?

Thousands of years ago many of them was able to achieve the status of a totally free mind, a brain in deeep silence, when there is no Observation at all. Thus according to our Western quantum theorems, they had to reach that mental state when the Observer and the Object reaches superposition. When they know everything about themselves and about the world.

In this context, my question is: what is the right approach? The Western way, the science, which uses hundreds of lifetimes to develop new senses running into environmental, social and moral issues towards a technology singularity, or, the Eastern way where “gurus” are meditating in a harmless way in a total ambience with the nature towards the Deep Silence …

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