Grupp Class 1 IUN

Lecture from Jeffrey Grupp's (lecturer) Buddhist Philosophy class at Indiana University Northwest, March 28, 2007. The lecture is on Buddha's writings (the Dhammapada), and how Buddha's description of reality is so amazingly similar to a strictly empirical account of the scientific discoveries in quantum physics. The empirical (non-metaphysical) account is, roughly, what is called the Standard Model of quantum physics. But the strictly empirical account of quantum physics that I just referred to is merely a study of quantum physics where one only takes the barest basic issues of what quantum physicists observe in their daily research. And what is observed is that quantum reality consists of point-sized, partless, largely durationless quantum particles of energy. This interpretation of quantum reality has been called mereological nihilism, or the R-theory of time by Grupp, but its roots exist in the simple, minimalistic, positivistic, empirical account of quantum reality that was given to us by the ancient (pre-classical) Indian Buddhists (e.g., Dharmakirti), and by the originators of quantum physics (Bohr). This lecture shows that this is how Buddha also described ultimate reality, and the following issues are involves in this lecture: quantum foam, nirvana, particle physics, dark matter, anti-matter, quantum chaos, the exploding lotus, Buddha's life, parallel universes, Buddhist poetry, pulsating reality, David Lynch (filmmaker, author), infinite light, transhumanism, subjectivity, vibrating energy, quantum idealism (panpsychism), beings that are made of light, nirvanic explosion, mereological nihilism, the R-theory of time, human origins (evolution versus other theories), and Brahman.

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[swedishnorway]

Seems like a loving, neat person. Just heard him on the Alex Jones Show.

[g0dEATg0d]

omg i love his class. i have him this semester, and its an honor to be in his class

[Legendaryxxx]

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