Post by Week 6 on Jul 29, 2016 5:41:00 GMT
1. Faqir Chand’s experiences are important to understand the project nature of religious visions and miracles to understand the nature of ignorance regarding miraculous phenomena including religious visions around us, especially when we find ourselves especially desperate for answers. Faqir searched for these answers of existence and being. Faqir believed that the visions in our dreams and visions were projections of our own subconscious. It is our own mind that convinced us of these religious visions and “miracles.” "So what I have learned about Nam is that it is the true knowledge of the feelings, visions, and images that are seen within. This knowledge is that all the creations of the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep modes of consciousness are nothing but samskaras(impressions which are in truth unreal) that are produced by the mind."
2. “Philosophy done well in science” means that theories which are developed (because as philosophy, probably through questioning things), tested, proven, and validated can be considered science. These questions (or hypotheses) can be tested over and over again for its accuracy and we will still get the same answers. These answers, which we begin to accept as truths, is essentially the process of a scientific discovery. Patricia Churchland says that “as theories develop and as hypotheses become confirmed, they sort of 'hive off' of philosophy, and they become a specialized discipline, like chemistry or physics, etc. I see philosophy as a sort of synoptic role, trying to synthesize ideas, sometimes across disciplines, and to generate very general hypotheses about what's going on, but I don't see it as in some sense of independent of science.” However, if we don’t find these answers and continue to ask questions, and question our questions, we are not proving any fact or truth, but simply still creating philosophical thoughts.
2. “Philosophy done well in science” means that theories which are developed (because as philosophy, probably through questioning things), tested, proven, and validated can be considered science. These questions (or hypotheses) can be tested over and over again for its accuracy and we will still get the same answers. These answers, which we begin to accept as truths, is essentially the process of a scientific discovery. Patricia Churchland says that “as theories develop and as hypotheses become confirmed, they sort of 'hive off' of philosophy, and they become a specialized discipline, like chemistry or physics, etc. I see philosophy as a sort of synoptic role, trying to synthesize ideas, sometimes across disciplines, and to generate very general hypotheses about what's going on, but I don't see it as in some sense of independent of science.” However, if we don’t find these answers and continue to ask questions, and question our questions, we are not proving any fact or truth, but simply still creating philosophical thoughts.