{"id":69927,"date":"2018-12-25T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/181395535546"},"modified":"2018-12-25T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:48:18","slug":"there-is-no-scientific-proof-that-you-exist-but-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=69927","title":{"rendered":"There is no scientific proof that you exist, but scientific proof exists because you exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is no scientific proof that you exist, but scientific proof exists because you exist (Based on Gita 16.09)
\nChaitanya Charan Das: Suppose someone said in English, \u201cI don\u2019t know a single word of English.\u201d Their statement would be a blatant self-contradiction.
\nA similar self-contradiction results when scientism abuses science to deny the existence of consciousness.
\nScience is an attitude, a way of analyzing the world through empirical observation and rational inference. As a matter of methodology, science largely seeks natural explanations for natural phenomena, wherein natural is a synonym for material. Science is ideologically noncommittal \u2013 whether anything exists beyond matter is out of syllabus for science.
\nIn contrast to science, scientism is an ideology. Scientism claims that science is the sole source of knowledge for all of reality. By this claim, scientism presumes that all of reality is material, for science investigates only material reality.
\nScientism undercuts the very foundation of science, as seen in scientism\u2019s view of the self. A rigidly materialistic worldview leaves no place for the self as a conscious center of awareness. For such a self can\u2019t be detected by the most hi-tech scans. Why not? Because that self is an experiencer, and experience is essentially non-material. Matter is insentient; it experiences nothing, not even its own existence. Experiencing anything, including matter, requires an experiencer who is non-material.
\nAnd an experiencing investigator \u2013 an observing, reasoning, inferring self \u2013 is indispensable for scientific research. In Einstein\u2019s words, the experience of the mysterious \u201cis the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.\u201d The longing to learn, the excitement of exploration, the thrill of discovery \u2013 these emotions fuel science\u2019s search for knowledge. No experiencing self, no science.
\nPertinently, the Bhagavad-gita (16.09) reproaches fanatical materialists as soul-destroyers. Materialists who misappropriate science to deny the nonmaterial self are like the witless woodcutters who cut the branch they sit on.
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\nVerse 16.09 – \u201cFollowing such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbene\ufb01cial, horrible works meant to destroy the world.\u201d
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\nThink it over:
\nWhat is the difference between science and scientism?
\nWhy do the most hi-tech scans fail to detect the self?
\nHow is experiencing self indispensable for scientific research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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There is no scientific proof that you exist, but scientific proof exists because you exist (Based on Gita 16.09)
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