http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/consciousness-2/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:35:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/consciousness-2/#comment-138743 Julia S Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:37:03 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/12/consciousness-2/#comment-138743 As Solomon imprecisely indicates, several Buddhist schools of thought (i.e., Chittamatrin, Madyamika-Prasangkika) have reasoned quite convincingly that consciousness creates the world and not vice-versa; if that is the case, his "once upon a time" fairy tale (whether following Genesis or Darwin) and his final question "how did consciousness come into the world?" are nonsensical. As Solomon imprecisely indicates, several Buddhist schools of thought (i.e., Chittamatrin, Madyamika-Prasangkika) have reasoned quite convincingly that consciousness creates the world and not vice-versa; if that is the case, his “once upon a time” fairy tale (whether following Genesis or Darwin) and his final question “how did consciousness come into the world?” are nonsensical.

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