The Economics of Singularities of Science Elucidated with Buddhist Thoughts

What is it about?

The optimism about what science can achieve for humanity is as high as it has ever been while the fear about what science can cause on humanity is also as high as it has ever been. This book is about the crossroads of the two attitudes reflected upon through the ancient but perfect wisdom laid out by the Buddha, the omniscient one, and especially Lama Tsongkhapa, the Buddha in the Land of Snows. For that, this book is entitled The Economics of Singularities of Science Elucidated with Buddhist Thoughts. This book clarifies the five science disciplines that are at the frontiers of science, each of which is full of exciting novel experiments, and broadly encompass the entire range of science. The five are the physics of relativity, quantum mechanics, mRNA virology, stem cell research, and neuroscience. From the five disciplines, this book explains the five experiments at the frontiers: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, an mRNA virus generation, a stem-cell-based cloning and organ regeneration, and a consciousness generation from pure matter, respectively.

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Why is it important?

In this book, the present author tackles these major scientific experiments and singularities with the 2657-year-old Buddhist thought system. As the book will reveal to readers, this ancient philosophy provides a far more flexible and reasoning approach to explicating what is advancing in these experiments and what is at stake. As readers will certainly get toeventually, these experiments are an anthropogenic effort to get to the most puzzling questions of humankind since its coming into being. That is, the questions of life and death, of diseases and suffering, of how a human being is able to perceive and think, of where the limit of the universe or the beginning of the universe is. These questions are also what has perplexed the Western philosophers for a long time, including Descartes, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer. Although, as this book will elaborate, all of these questions were and have been analyzed acutely by Buddhist philosophers including Buddha Shakyamuni and Je Rinpoche, they were never brought into the sphere of such intense material pursuits as being unfolded in the science today. In Buddhism, these questions were all matters of mind. In science, these questions are purely matters of pure matter. Resorting to the enlightened view of the Buddha, Buddhists were able to approach and explore these matters with little obsession.

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