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12-03-2016

Historical path of traditional and modern idea of ‘conscious universe’

Authors: Mehrnaz Monzavi, Mohd Hazim Shah Abdul Murad, Matin Rahnama, Shahaboddin Shamshirband

Published in: Quality & Quantity | Issue 3/2017

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Abstract

What this study shows is that although the ‘idea of conscious universe’ is given further advance by some discoveries of modern sciences, it was articulated by many ancient and previous thinkers. Philosophically, the idea of ‘Consciousness’ can be traced back to ancient times and can be proven through historical documents in various traditions, cultures and religions. In this study, the ideas are provided from perspectives of West, East and Islam. Simply, the term ‘awareness’ and the concept of ‘ability to be aware of the environment’ imply the notion of ‘Consciousness’ in linguistic and psychology. In a comparative study, we show that philosophical and scientific views in the past and contemporary period highly recommended the existence of ‘Consciousness’ attribute. In fact, all of the mentioned studies are talking about the same ideology based on the qualitative perceptions. However, there are some differences in parts, but the major theme is same.

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Footnotes
1
For example: Sutherland (1995).
 
2
Originally, the translation from the Arabic of this phrase is:” “واهب الصور و واهب العلم و التایید
(Corbin 1952, pp. 1–200).
 
3
It is not possible to put together all the new scientific concepts in this paper. It should be sufficient that only brief explanations have been brought and readers are referred to the current sources to achieve the entire theorem; however the full version of those are provided in author’s thesis. Adapting universe that utilizes information to organize itself and to create ever-increasing levels of complexity. Human are interconnected with it all together and we are as a part of it and cannot be separated from it. In fact, our nature is a self-referencing, bootstrap and sentient system, which has the ability to learn, habit and etc.
 
4
(Owen et al. 1979; Lovelock 2000; Turney 2004) and more details are provided from the Wikipedia, Gaia.
 
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Metadata
Title
Historical path of traditional and modern idea of ‘conscious universe’
Authors
Mehrnaz Monzavi
Mohd Hazim Shah Abdul Murad
Matin Rahnama
Shahaboddin Shamshirband
Publication date
12-03-2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Quality & Quantity / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-016-0324-3

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