Thread by @AhammBrahmaasmi

🧵Measurement Versus Consciousness:

"#consciousness is one thing that 'measures' everything else in the #universe"

Light qualifies itself eminently as a means of measurement because it measures both space and time in one. Its velocity is the highest in the physical world, 1/n

and therefore, it happens to be the first signal. But its finite velocity is also a factor of limitation, Space and time provide the basic frame of reference for everything else in nature and light provides the single yardstick to measure them both. It has become possible for 2/n

the #physicist to construct his absolute world on the basis of light propagation because of its virtues stated above. If light commends itself to the physicist as an absolute standard of reference, what is it that commends itself as an absolute standard of reference to the 3/n

#Vendantin to construct his model of reality? Under similar circumstances, and for similar reasons, consciousness provides the absolute background of reference in the #Vedantic analysis of reality. If each instrument measures its target object exclusively in its own 4/n

characteristic way and if light measures both space and time which are apparently very disparate entities, we should carefully note that consciousness is one thing that "measures" everything else in the universe that is known or to be known by man. Consciousness, unlike other 5/n

senses is not designed to grasp, measure or know only One type of sensum. It is the common ground of all cognitions सर्वे प्रत्यया विषयीभवन्ति यस्य, स आत्मा सर्वबोधान्प्रतिबुध्यते सर्वप्रत्ययदर्शी चिच्छक्तिस्वरूपमात्रः..(केनोपनिषत्पदभाष्यम्) and therefore, the subjectivity 6/n

or limitation in the knowing process which properly belongs to the instruments of knowledge (as in the case of finite velocity of light etc.) does not apply to consciousness. In fact, consciousness is conceived as the correlate of multiples egos, which even stands as 7/8

witness of such states as swooning, #hallucinations, and #dreamless sleep. - #Vedanta and #Modern Physics by Dr U Chandrasekharayya

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