What's new
BUDDHISM AND SCIENCE UPDATES |
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| Date | Module | Revision Details |
| 3-Dec-2011 | If we regard Buddhism as a combination of a philosophy, psychology and religion, then how much mileage can we get from the first two aspects before we have to start invoking religious faith? | |
| 1-Jan-2003 | Buddhist Teachings | On the mind, personal relationships,
meditation and the spiritual path. |
| 15-Nov-2002 | Buddhism, Shamanism and the use of entheogens | Opening the doors of perception |
| 18-Jul-2002 | Site Summary | Busy person's disproof of materialism. |
| 11-JUL-2002 | Introduction to Buddhism | A short passage in Richard Dawkins' classic 'THE SELFISH GENE' forms the basis of an introduction to Buddhist philosophy |
| 7-JUL-2002 | Symbolism, Visualization and Ritual | Techniques for transforming the root mind. |
| 9-JUN-2002 | Sociology of Scientific Knowledge - SSK | From the mid 1970s to the late 1990s a cluster of irrationalist or anti-rationalist ideas became increasingly prevalent among academic sociologists in America, France and Britain. The ideas were variously known as Deconstructionism, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, (SSK), Social Constructivism, or Science and Technology Studies (STS). |
| 6-JUN-2002 | Emergence - is the mind an emergent property of the brain? | The mind cannot be an emergent property of the brain or any other physical system, since emergent properties and emergent phenomena are psychological in origin, and require the pre-existence of an observer's mind in order to become manifest. |
| 3-JUN-2002 | Paradigm shifts | Proactive Paradigm Shifts and New Paradigms in Science, Religion and Spirituality reveal the need for cromulant words to embiggen the vocabulary of discourse. |
| 1-MAY-2002 | Einstein | Was Albert Einstein a Buddhist? |
| 22-MAR-2002 | Richard Dawkins on Buddhism | Prof Richard Dawkins gives his views on Buddhism and other religions. |
| 10-MAR-2002 | Tantra | Changing the basis of imputation of the self. |
| 2-MAR-2002 | God | For in Him we live, and move, and have our being. |
| 15-FEB-2002 | Metaphysics | Metaphysics deals with phenomena which are either more basic than physics, or beyond the reach of physical methods of analysis and understanding. |
| 9-SEP-2001 | Unreasonable effectiveness | The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in science and engineering. |
| 31-JUL-2001 | anti-Buddhism | anti-Buddhist arguments |
| 28-JUL-2001 | Mind and Soul | Mind, Soul and
Afterlife in Christianity and Buddhism |
| 15-JUL-2001 | Transpersonal Psychology | One Universal Mind or many individual minds? |
| 14-JUL-2001 | Universal Mind? | How many minds are there - many or one? |
| 14-JUL-2001 | Nonalgorithmic | Updated to include a discussion of the limits of science in the study of mind. |
| 3-JUL-2001 | Christianity and Buddhism | Buddhism and Science, Fundamentalism and Original Sin. |
| 10-JUN-2001 | parietal | New module - recent controversy regarding parietal lobe and relgious experience |
| 14-OCT-2000 | empty set | New module - Buddhist philosophy and the origins of mathematics |
| 12-OCT-2000 | formless mind | Rewritten with meditation added. |
| 13-AUG-2000 | feminine spirituality | New module |
| 30-JUL-2000 | wicca | New module |
| 6-JUN-2000 | materialism | Complete rewrite |
| 5-JUN-2000 | formless mind | New link to 'Implications of a Fundamental Consciousness' by Copthorne MacDonald. |
| 12-MAY-2000 | rebirth | New link to excellent article 'Reincarnation as taught by early Christians'. |
| 1-MAY-2000 | algorithms | Links to 'Datastructures and
algorithms' and 'Dictionary of Algorithms' |
| 1-MAY-2000 | judgementalism | Link to 'Politically incorrect salvation' |
| 30-APR-2000 | rebirth | Substantial rewrite |
