How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016)

Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) by pulkitsh1234 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @05:02AM (#24605244)

Anyone overlooking the ancient Indian philosophical (or spiritual depending on the way you look at it) literature, a.k.a The Upanishads, is being ignorant about consciousness studies.

The term "Chit" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cit_(consciousness)) was introduced by The Upanishads for referring to consciousness/awareness long before any of the modern philosophers did so.

For more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfUXXKB_G_Q

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Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) by srtjstjsj on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:55PM (#24608039)

Your comment would be much better with out the needless antagonisic first sentence.

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Re:How Did Consciousness Evolve? (2016) by yeaman1231 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @05:28AM (#24605374)

good luck mate, I (used to be one of those people) always run into people in tech that treat science as a religion (scientism) and simply refuse to look at philosophical traditions of their own culture (save for foreign cultures) because of their narrow modern conception of religion.

On a separate note, I am interested in comparative theology (traditions in general) and the link you mentioned seems very interesting, thank you

---- Edit: For context: grew up in the middle east and living in California now, studied a ton about middle eastern theology and western theology, would love more resources on the east

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