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Ashish Dalela

    This author explores the profound connection between science and meaning, seeking to move beyond the limitations of a purely physical explanation of reality. Their work focuses on incorporating meaning as a foundational principle across diverse scientific fields, from mathematics to neuroscience. The author posits that science requires a conceptual overhaul to scientifically describe symbolic objects and integrate them into our understanding of nature. Key themes revolve around indeterminism, incompleteness, and uncertainty in science, alongside the integration of meaning and matter within Vedic philosophy.

    Western Questions Eastern Answers: A Collection of Short Essays - Volume 4
    Conceiving the Inconceivable Part 1: A Scientific Commentary on Vedānta Sūtras
    Western Questions Eastern Answers
    Western Questions Eastern Answers: A Collection of Short Essays - Volume 3
    Time and Consciousness: Cyclical, Hierarchical, and Causal Notions of Time
    The Yellow Pill: Conceptual Basis of the Varna System
    • 2020

      Questions about the nature of time have always been an important part of physics and philosophy, but they have never been resolved satisfactorily. This book discusses eight such questions: -Does Time Pass?-How Does Time Pass?-Do the Past and the Future Change the Present?-Does Time Pass Uniformly?-Is Time Absolute or Relative?-Is Time Discrete or Continuous?-Is Time Reversible or Irreversible?-Is the Universe Eternal or Cyclical?These problems span classical mechanics, thermodynamics, atomic theory, relativity, and geometry, but the fundamental issues of the past and the future influencing the present are present in experience. To address the paradoxes of objectivity and subjectivity, we split causality into three questions-what, how, and why-and attribute them to time, matter, and observers. This leads us to a hierarchical, closed, and cyclical view of space and time. Causality is not just in matter; it is also in time and in observers; but the three kinds of causalities are different as answers to different questions. A tripartite causal model overturns the assumptions about space, time, causation, and natural laws in modern science; but this shift is imperative to address all the questions of time satisfactorily.

      Time and Consciousness: Cyclical, Hierarchical, and Causal Notions of Time
    • 2020

      It is commonly believed that the nature of God cannot be discussed scientifically, because science applies only to matter. This book challenges this assumption and defines God as perfection and discusses 12 qualities that constitute perfection. These qualities can be applied to anything, but in this book, they are applied to the idea of the perfection of knowledge. What is perfection in knowledge? That knowledge which is consistent, complete, simple, parsimonious, necessary, sufficient, empirical, operational, instrumental, stable, and novel, is perfect. These 12 qualities are organized in six pairs in the Vedic philosophical description of God, and called knowledge, beauty, renunciation, power, wealth, and heroism. By discussing the nature of perfection, identifying how this world also carries such perfection partially (but never completely), we can understand how God is complete perfection.

      The Science of God: The Twelve Principles of Perfection
    • 2018

      The term “Yellow Pill” derives from the popular designation of socio-economic-political positions by names like the “Blue Pill” (surrender your individuality to the system), “Red Pill” (fight the system to get your individuality), “Green Pill” (replace the current system by a new one), etc. In the cacophony of ideologies, the discussion about the moral purpose of life and how it is achieved through society is missing.This book hopes to fill that gap; it talks about how society cannot be organized without a transcending purpose, and when such a purpose exists, the conflicts between competition and cooperation, government and business, the individual and the system, are resolved. It discusses a social model that is neither left-wing nor right-wing, and yet brings the benefits of both systems. This system is based on the ancient theory of Varna or four classes described in the Vedic texts. The book discusses the foundational ideas of this system in the context of modern social, economic, and political theories showing how stability is more important than growth, how localization is more important than globalization, and how a society organized hierarchically based on merit is better than one where everyone pretends to have equal rights.

      The Yellow Pill: Conceptual Basis of the Varna System
    • 2018