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The main difference I've identified between Eastern (Indian, Vedantic) thought and the Western paradigm is as follows: The western minds starts with a body/bra

The main difference I've identified between Eastern (Indian, Vedantic) thought and the Western paradigm is as follows: The western minds starts with a body/brain existing before a mind/consciousness and his enquiry is conditioned from this starting pointing. He seeks the cause of consciousness in some material phenomenon. In contrast, the Eastern (again, Vedantic) paradigm is inverted. Consciousness, mind, is given a priori and matter (body, brain) emerges therefrom. I'd be interested to see any Western minds taking this approach. For further reading, would recommend researching the three states of Consciousness, "waking" "dream" & "deep-sleep"

popnroll 8y ago
I haven't read enough about consciousness, but I think the most important modern thinker with "eastern paradigm" is Bernardo Kastrup: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-grips-with-the-implications-of-quantum-mechanics/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-...
szemet 8y ago
I'm not that well versed in continental philosophy, but there is a whole (and somewhat diverse) program called phenomenology which originally planned to explain everything started from the basic fact of experience. "Phenomenology, in Husserl's conception, is primarily concerned with the systematic reflection on and study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear in acts of consciousness. Phenomenology can be clearly differentiated from the Cartesian method of analysis which sees the world as objects, sets of objects, and objects acting and reacting upon one another." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy) I'm not sure if they discovered anything that belongs to mainstream science now. (But, for example, I frequently see references to "Phenomenology of Perception: Maurice Merleau-Ponty" here and there, in modern discussions.) I have not really read anything from these authors, (only some Heidegger) so I can't have any respectable opinion on the subject (also my strongest impression about continental philosophy is from Sokal;), just pointing to the field...
mcguire 8y ago
Have you looked at any of the early Christian philosophers? The "Western", "body-first" approach was a response to them.

popnroll 8y ago

I haven't read enough about consciousness, but I think the most important modern thinker with "eastern paradigm" is Bernardo Kastrup: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-grips-with-the-implications-of-quantum-mechanics/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-...

szemet 8y ago

I'm not that well versed in continental philosophy, but there is a whole (and somewhat diverse) program called phenomenology which originally planned to explain everything started from the basic fact of experience. "Phenomenology, in Husserl's conception, is primarily concerned with the systematic reflection on and study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear in acts of consciousness. Phenomenology can be clearly differentiated from the Cartesian method of analysis which sees the world as objects, sets of objects, and objects acting and reacting upon one another." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy) I'm not sure if they discovered anything that belongs to mainstream science now. (But, for example, I frequently see references to "Phenomenology of Perception: Maurice Merleau-Ponty" here and there, in modern discussions.) I have not really read anything from these authors, (only some Heidegger) so I can't have any respectable opinion on the subject (also my strongest impression about continental philosophy is from Sokal;), just pointing to the field...

mcguire 8y ago

Have you looked at any of the early Christian philosophers? The "Western", "body-first" approach was a response to them.