The Science of Consciousness

The journey of a stormy ride is poised to move into an ultimate phase of a pleasant, peaceful one. This is how I would describe the long enduring human search for knowledge, meaning, health and prosperity. We have traveled thousands of miles in darkness and light; freezing chill and boiling heat.   We saw everything in blocks or as random events and we let loose our imagination to extend all sorts of connections and meaning to the bewildering complexity. Some turned out to be accurate; but many others were later proved to be wrong. We have nearly succeeded in finding the secrets of matter. Today we can explain much of the physical phenomena, at least the ones immediately relevant to us, just with a help of a few basic fields and their nearly constant attributes. But the many different values and functions match with each other so perfectly giving rise to stunning outcomes, at times with their even more stunning exceptions and deviations that fully ensure the final results th

Laplace, the French mathematician, is one of the very first proponents of Scientific Determinism. In his Philosophical Essay on Probabilities   (1814) , he speaks about the possibility of a Vast Intellect that might perceive at once the past, the present and the future – by its sheer ability to see through the internal links of the flow of events. Prior to this proposal, the uncanny scholar had corrected the Newtonian hypothesis of divine interventions to maintain stability of the solar system. Essentially, Laplace  explained through integral calculus the perturbations of larger planets that couldn’t be deduced through Newtonian formulas. Nevertheless, nowhere do we find in the writings of this extraordinary Scientific Reformer an openly confessed atheism, which is a fashionable trend among some of the greatest intellectuals of our own times.  At the same time, the French Scholar wasn't an ardent advocate of Christianity either. One could therefore assert this much with certa

We aren’t people hoping to live through till eighties or nineties. Even the new born among us is literally 13.7 billion year old already. If you consider yourself otherwise, it’s simply due to the lack of information you have collected about yourself. I am saying this not with a motive of glorifying human beings alone. Often we have been envious of a mountain that stands for millennia under a single name.  We take buildings and trees as our land mark to reach specific destination. Some of us might have breakfast in the East and dinner in the West of the globe. And we give a sigh of relief when we reach our own property even as we find it to be exactly in the midst of the landscape so deeply registered in our memory. But believe it or not, even the high rise constructions around you started off only as hydrogen molecules many billion years ago – got consolidated into bigger atoms at the furnace of stars – got dispersed into deep space at the time of nebulae, the explosion – found