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Joseph T Noony Profile picture
@JoeAgneya
Sep 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
"The first cause was a self aware singularity.The truth is ∞"
Yajnavalkya, 2000 BCE

"There is nothing permanent. Not even the self. The truth is 0"
Buddha, 500 BCE

"Truth is multifaceted. Both 0 & ∞"
Mahavira, 500 BCE

"Mathematically I found that 0=1/∞"
Bhaskara II, 1150 CE
This is why Europe would never have discovered zero and calculus on its own even after a thousand years. They simply did not have the phisosophical foundation for it. They did it the easy way- mass plagiarism of Indian hard work.
This is also why Indic darsanas(Vedic, Jain and Buddhist) should not be treated as 'religions'. They are not a bunch of dogmas at eternal conflict with each other like middle Eastern faiths. They are high philosophies that directly inspired modern mathematics.
It is important to build our counter narrative to challenge the colonial edifice. I shall make a better thread with more contributions by individual philosophers and mathematicians.

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Aug 2, 2022
The most radical thinkers produced by ancient India. Each opened a new branch of learning or caused paradigm shifts in prevalent thinking of society-or sometimes- the whole species.

Clarity on chronology-even if imperfect-helps you appreciate the evolution of the Indic intellect
"Whence came this creation?
Did he create it, or did he not?
He who surveys in the highest heaven knows.
Or perhaps he may not know...."
-Parameṣṭhin Prajāpati~2000 BCE
Rig Veda 10.129
"There is only one supreme god. He is Ahura Mazdā"
-Atharvan Zaratuštra~1900 BCE
(North west frontier province-Rangha/Bactria)

The first monotheist
Influenced Judaism
Contributive to Indo-Iranian civil war & permanent schism
Destinies of the last two IE tribes diverged forever
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Nov 7, 2021
In one of his works, Adi Shankara asks a question way beyond his time-

'When you close your eyes and imagine things, how are those images formed? An image needs light. What is the source of light for imagination?'
It is highly likely the Buddhist Vijnanavadins had already examined this question. They were obsessed with the problem of mental images.

If this question can be properly answered, we may have a key to unravel the mind-brain enigma: One of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
Even real life things you see with your eyes are mere images projected in the occipital lobe. You are actually 'seeing' with the back of your head!

What about mental images? Is some 'light' involved? Are neurons producing it? How? What is the physical link of neuron & thought?
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Nov 1, 2021
"When the Bodhisattva Avalokiteswara
was coursing in the deep Prajna Paramita
he perceived that all five skandhas are empty

O Sariputra,
form does not differ from void,
for form is void, and the void form
The same is true of feelings,
perceptions, volition and consciousness
O Sariputra,
All dharmas are marked with voidness
They are non-arising, non ceasing,
Neither tainted nor pure
They do not increase, do not decrease

Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feelings,
perceptions, volition or consciousness
There is no ignorance or ending of ignorance
There is no truth to suffering,
No causes of suffering or ending to suffering
There is no truth of the path

There is no wisdom
There is no attainment whatsoever
For there is nothing to be attained,
The bodhisattva has no obstruction
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Oct 24, 2021
Sir,

-Law of the hypotenuse was stated by Baudhayana~1800 BCE

-Logarithm(base 2, 3 & 4) was first investigated by Jain mathematician Virasena~800 CE

-Calculus was invented by Madhava(1400 CE)
Without which most of the other equations are impossible.

Please endorse these facts
The rationale for dating Baudhayana to ~1800 BCE is that he was near contemporary to the well known Indo-Iranian schism which happened around 2000-1800 BCE.
The contributions by Bhaskara which benefitted the west but is still unacknowledged-
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Sep 20, 2021
Brazen double standards of the western historian

Otto Neugebauer(1899–1990) is regarded as the foremost historian of science. His guiding principle is this-Unlike soft sciences, it is UNLIKELY that complicated mathematical models can be replicated by two cultures independently.
His student is the famous David Pingree. This man's life mission was the subordination of the Siddhanta tradition of India under the purported primacy of the Greek. His conclusions & fantasies are rampantly circulated as mainstream history,even among Indians. How does he do this?
1. Use Neugebauer's law to argue that the similarities between the Ptolemaic and Siddhanta astronomy is because of flow of knowledge.

2. Use this as 'proof' of Greek primacy.

3. Claim that Aryabhatta and Varahamihira learned astronomy & trigonometry from Hipparchus & Ptolemy!
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Sep 14, 2021
Kautilyan Economics

-State shall constantly expand & hunt new capital
-Economic activity=revenue & prosperity
-Keep private sector out of critical areas
-Free trade & foreign goods benefit citizens
-Centralization & standardization
-Low taxes~20%

The Father of Economic thought
In an ideal world Adam Smith & Karl Marx should be compared to Kautilya. Not the other way around. This is not one man's ideas. This is most ancient statecraft & accumulated wisdom inherited from one of the three cradles of civilization-Sindhu-Saraswathy.
Why should India-and the world-be perpetually stuck in the violent 'Socialism vs Capitalism' paradigm? Why are the complexities & possibilities of the world restricted like this ? Why should the standards and definitions be immutably fixed in their colonial forms?
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