There has been some discussion on what Stephen Hawking has said about Reality-'There is no picture or theory-independent concept of Reality'.
Well. This book ,'The Grand Design' co-authored by him with Leonard Mlodinow is quite fascinating. The thin air between Reality and the concept of Reality is what is Reality all about!
Eckhart Tolle would say this-Become at ease with the state of 'not knowing'. This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret.It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing,you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non -conceptual then arises out of that state...
If 'modelling' is one kind of theoritizing, let's look at one concept. An existing mountain appears inside a dream. What is Reality? The mountain or the Dream? Now look at this. We are already thinking into the idea of a dream being a reality!
Pictures, theories, realities...it's a life-system. Hawking's explanation is straight and absolute-...in some cases, individual objects don't even have an independent existence but rather exist only as a part of an ensemble of many. A fish existing inside water draws life from oxygen inside water...where is it's life energy? inside water?, inside the oxygen drawn from water? inside the life sustaining mechanism perfected inside the environment? Now life turns conceptual!
But which one preceded? the life supporting system or the concept of life?
Absolute Truth-'Pragnyanam Brahma' is beyond conceptual thought.Perception is a modelled thought process. Srikrishna states in the Gita, ' The problem is with Drishti (viewpoint) and not with the Srishti (Creation)'
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