Atma Paradigm webinar series 2020
35 dynamic talks delivered between April and December 2020
Access the series on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVgitaOD8fo&t=88s
What is the Atma Paradigm?
What is consciousness?
What is Matter & Reality?
What is Life and how does it originate & proliferate
The Universe - origins and beyond
These are the big questions of our origins and existence. The Atma Paradigm provides unique & compelling answers to how it all works. It builds from validated scientific evidence analysed by sound philosophical logic.
It challenges explanations of cause and complexity that rely on chance, randomness and vague pseudo-scientific terms such as emergent properties, instinct and so on. The evidence tells a different story - one that can be understood only by the unique insights of Vedanta, Sankhya & the Yoga traditions.
The Atma Paradigm presents a comprehensive study of consciousness and explains why a physicalist view that the brain is the source of consciousness remains the Hard Problem. Rather, the actual evidence and logic suggests we work on the principle that consciousness possesses properties that cannot be reduced to physics. This allows us to examine consciousness as the source of specifying information which addresses the other problem of structural complexity within biology and physics.What emerges is a new metaphysical framework that is entirely consistent with validated science. It does, however, require us to move beyond many of the biases, beliefs, assumptions and unsubstantiated assertions fed to the public in the name of science.
This is the Atma Paradigm - a comprehensive and science-consistent philosophical framework derived from the Vedic perspective
The presenter
Akhandadhi das is a philosopher with particular training in the integration of modern science and the philosophies of Vedanta, Sankhya and Yoga. Currently he is the director of the Science & Philosophy Initiative, a UK association with links to the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies in USA. He is best known as a regular broadcasts on the BBC since 1989
This Webinar
This webinar series is accessible to all - whether you have a background in science or not.
And particularly inspirational to those new to Vedic concepts.
This is an opportunity:
to resolve many of your questions regarding science and philosophy
to discover new insights into the metaphysics of reality
to gain new perspectives regarding consciousness, life, origins etc.
to deepen appreciation for the insights of the the ancient Vedic tradition
to encourage your personal path as an active explorer of the inner world of consciousness
Topics
The Atma Paradigm Webinar will cover the following topics:
Part One The nature of consciousness
Part Two Understanding matter & how we are conditioned within it
Part Three Unravelling life, evolution, transmigration
Part Four The universe from start to finish and beyond
Transmission & Availability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVgitaOD8fo&t=88s
Schedule of talks for Part One |
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1.1 Introduction to the Atma Paradigm Relationship of science & philosophy The limits of the scientific process & use of bad philosophy How the insights of the Vedas address the big questions The key principles of the Atma Paradigm |
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1.2 What is consciousness? Clarifying the key aspects of phenomenal consciousness Starting point - what can we know for certain? Exercises based on Jiva Goswami’s four arguments ‘Unified qualitative subjectivity’ |
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1.3 Qualia - the ‘Hard Problem’ of consciousness Is there proof that consciousness is non-physical? What are qualia? Various types Exercises exploring how we experience them. How qualia challenge the idea that the brain can produce consciousness |
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1.4 The Brain Model failure How does the brain work? What is it capable of? Francis Crick’s model of perception Where are qualia? Where is the observer? More brain problems - sparseness, time lag The absurd conclusions of physicalist interpretations |
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1.5 Unpacking physicalist theories of consciousness Theories of consciousness - why so many? What is their evidence or justification? Examples of the four types: Diminish, Conjure, Deny, Promise Identifying the standard flaws of each type Can we create consciousness with AI? |
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1.6 The atma - an alternative approach The integration of experience & the analogy of computing Proposition of a non-neural source of consciousness Defining the precise nature of the atma How the atma explains the neuroscience evidence Addressing the challenges to non-neural consciousness What is consciousness made of? |
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1.7 The atma - direct evidence Examples of direct scientific evidence of the atma Hydrocephalus- do we need a brain NDEs & OBEs - clinical research evidence Is there direct evidence for the Brain Model Evidence for consciousness in animals & plants |
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1.8 Why this is important - and useful Defining the self - coherent, unchanging, autonomous The atma as non-temporal Identification and the VR model Values, free will, meaning and purpose How the atma concept opens up the rest of science |
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