Choosing Reality, : A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind
 

Choosing Reality, : A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind

by B. Alan Wallace

For centuries scientists and philosophers have pondered the relationship between scientific theory and reality. Analyzing two major positions, the author points out the many assumptions required to adopt the realist view, and nihilism implicit in the instrumentalist position. (read review)

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Very dense and long-winded, but excellent material. In this book, Alan Wallace makes the case that Western science, for all its rigorousness and depth of inquiry, still rests upon metaphysical beliefs that are as arbitrary as anything you hear in any religion. Then he goes on to describe the core Buddhist philosophy that accounts for this and how the two modes of inquiry can complement each other.

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p12: Faith is also a prerequisite for...

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