{"id":179,"date":"2006-05-18T18:08:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/05\/18\/the-deepak-chopra-school-of-thought\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T18:08:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T12:38:34","slug":"the-deepak-chopra-school-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/the-deepak-chopra-school-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deepak Chopra School of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

It runs like this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Quantum particles are conscious.<\/li>\n
  2. Human beings are conscious.<\/li>\n
  3. Thus, human beings can be treated like quantum particles.<\/li>\n
  4. No statement of a quantum particle’s position is ever accurate, it it only a probabilistic guess.<\/li>\n
  5. Therefore, no view held by a human being is ever right or wrong. Everyone is correct to some extent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You don’t even need to marvel at the jump from Statement 4 to Statement 5. The process breaks down at Statement 3 itself. Just because all A is C, and all B is C, does not mean that all B is A.<\/p>\n

    Incidentally, even Statement 1 is a metaphor and does not imply that an electron has the sort of emergent consciousness that a human being has. If an electron is conscious, than so is a rubber band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It runs like this: Quantum particles are conscious. Human beings are conscious. Thus, human beings can be treated like quantum particles. No statement of a quantum particle’s position is ever accurate, it it only a probabilistic guess. Therefore, no view held by a human being is ever right or wrong. Everyone is correct to some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlatans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}