Some thoughts on Galileo Commission
Just a couple of days back I had the opportunity to attend a talk by Prof. Ravi Ravindra (more information about him at http://www.ravindra.ca/) at 145th Annual convention of TS. There he mentioned on his involvement in a project with many other scientists towards modeling consciousness as an alternative fundamental unit of reality as opposed to simply a matter particle pervading the current scientific approach and its challenges. Since I had tried looking through telescope way back during my studies and research I used to wonder if I am the only one to think in this way but looking at the report its now encouraging for me to have these scientists thinking on similar lines. The following arguments taken directly from the report point to a non materialistic way of approaching science itself. Summary of Arguments of Galileo Commission 1. No human intellectual activity, including science, can escape the fact that it has to make assumptions that cannot be proven using its own met...