Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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etween them which combine into pairs and trios. Claudio Rebbi and other physicists have reported that, “between the quarks and gluons inside an elementary particle, additional quarks and gluons are continuously formed and after a short time again subside”. [23] These clouds of virtual particles represent or produce interactions. The central core of quantum physics consists of a new view of reality that no longer perceives singular, independent elements but rather two-body systems, two states of a quantum object or two concepts, e.g., earth/moon, proton/electron, proton/neutron, quark/anti-quark, wave/measuring instrument, particle/measuring instrument, twin photons, super-positions, spin-up/spin-down, matter/anti-matter, elementary particle/field of force, law of nature/matter, etcetera. These systems cannot be separated into independent parts, or reduced to two separate, independent bodies or states, nor is one fundamental and the other derived, as the metaphysical either-or schemes of substantial materialism and subjectivism try to establish. They are not joined into a seamless unity either, they are not the same, they are not identical and they are not a mysterious wholeness as holism indicates. Finally, we cannot claim, as instrumentalists do, that they are nothing but mathematical models which we have constructed and which do not correspond to physical reality. In physics, there is a fundamental reality that is not a one-body system. It is a two-body system or an assembly of bodies, a cloud of virtual particles which surround the central or 'naked' body. Between these bodies is an interaction that is one of the composites of them. This understanding of physics cannot be dislodged and yet all our metaphysical schemata struggle against it. The cloud does not conform to our traditional expectations of what should delineate and underpin stability, substantiality and order. How can clouds be what we are used to calling the basic elements of matter? How can this small vibrating something be what generations of
philosophers and physicists have been searching for in order to arrive at the core of matter, the ultimate reality? Is this supposed to be it? From these little clouds we attempt to use metaphysical interpretation to distill something that has substance and is enduring. Entirely within the sense of the substance metaphysics of Plato, Heisenberg (1901-1976) contends that the mathematical forms are the idea of elementary particles and that the object of elementary particles corresponds with this mathematical idea. The physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007) called mathematics 'the essence of nature'. According to the physicist Schopper, fields of force are the ultimate reality. [24] Some of us want to see reality as a mysterious whole (holism) or dismiss it as a construction without any correspondence to empirical reality (instrumentalism). All of this only because we do not find it easy to admit that the complex interactions of the world in which we live have their roots in a reality that is in itself complex. It is impossible to escape from the entanglement of this world in quantum physics and, to find an elementary quantum object that is not dependent on other quantum objects or on parts of itself. It is also impossible to dissolve the double-sided character of quantum objects. The fundamental reality of our physical world consists of clouds of interacting quantum objects.
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Page 3 and 4: 1.Summary The key terms. 1. Key ter
Page 5 and 6: ideas of substance or subject, two
Page 7 and 8: 2. Nagarjuna Preliminary note We sh
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Page 11 and 12: (4) Instrumentalism Instead of favo
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Page 15: A brief review of the 25 chapters o
Page 18 and 19: Chapter 2: A mover and the distance
Page 20 and 21: Chapter 10: Fire and fuel. Photogra
Page 22 and 23: Chapter 12: Suffering and the cause
Page 24 and 25: Chapter 13. A teenager and an aged
Page 26: Chapter 23. Pure and impure. Rio Ne
Page 29 and 30: A solar storm. Something is happeni
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Page 33 and 34: 5. The metaphysical foundations of
Page 35 and 36: Albert Einstein’s contribution to
Page 37 and 38: Niels Bohr’s contribution to the
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Page 41 and 42: Figure 1: In this Feynman diagram,
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Section VIII. We have now reached t
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The common practice, interpreted by
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and in its forms. Thus we discover
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distinct meanings. It is to be reme
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This consideration is the basis of
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example consciousness, if it be pre
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together for common ends. Such unit
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monad can take account of another,
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facts and species are the product o
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adopted. Then the word Creativity e
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When a general idea has been obtain
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the correspondence between a model
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E. D. & Feldman, G. J. Quarkonium.
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8. Bibliography Bloom, E. D. & Feld
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