Some Thoughts on Naturalism by larval subjects
Our
niche consists of a culture that precedes us, the homes and infrastructure we've constructed, the media and technology that surround us, the practices we've developed, but also the ways in which we have chemically and organically
modified our environment. Intellectual Ecologies and Populations by larval subjects
Every
shift in an intellectual ecology requires revisions of what came before,
sublations of what came before, and also abandonment of certain features of
what came before… The question is one of how we relate to the tradition or
thought that has come before. Do we stick our heads in the sand,
continuing to draw on that tradition as if modern physics, chemistry, biology,
neurology, mathematics, and contemporary social transformations wrought by
technology haven’t occurred and make no demands on us to rethink the being or
being, or do we relate to that tradition in terms of these transformations and
seek to determine how we might creatively rethink that tradition in light of
these transformations?
A Future Without a Past? by sri aurobindo studies
The
idea of an eternal future without a past is a logical inconsistency… Once we
accept the idea of an eternal soul, it is essentially incumbent on us to
recognize its past as well as its future. It is one thing to believe that life
has no ultimate significance or future, and that the single birth is purely a
chance of material creation, or an event in the All-Soul’s development, thus
making the life ephemeral and transitory. It is quite another to start from a
creation out of material forces at the time of birth, and then build onto it an
eternity of future result.
Essentially,
if there is a recognition of a future, there must be concurrently a recognition
of a past, and this brings in a process and a mechanism which provides the
underpinning for the theory of rebirth and karma.
