One question struck me as food for thought, around 18:30 into the podcast:
Dodson: "The main problem with contemporary physics is you're just building up this house of cards, trying to make the equations work."
JMG: "I remember in the 1970s when the first wave of books claiming physicists were talking about the same things as Eastern mystics. And I was looking at that, going, eeeehm, maybe not?"
As I remember, theoretical physics is a mental game, where people sharpen their brains as weapons. These mental skills are useful in areas like finance or consulting, where people compete within arbitrary hard rules, like legal agreements or the material world. I'm less familiar with Eastern mystics, but it seems to me they also train to sharpen their brains.
In the podcast you say that theoretical physics and eastern mysticism are obviously not talking about the same thing. I feel like I'm missing something basic. I'd like to learn more about this. How can I learn about the difference?
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One question struck me as food for thought, around 18:30 into the podcast:
As I remember, theoretical physics is a mental game, where people sharpen their brains as weapons. These mental skills are useful in areas like finance or consulting, where people compete within arbitrary hard rules, like legal agreements or the material world. I'm less familiar with Eastern mystics, but it seems to me they also train to sharpen their brains.
In the podcast you say that theoretical physics and eastern mysticism are obviously not talking about the same thing. I feel like I'm missing something basic. I'd like to learn more about this. How can I learn about the difference?