Dualistic paradoxes in the universe
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Authors
Poussin, Marc de la Vallee
Issue Date
1981
Type
Thesis
Language
en
Keywords
Cosmology , Paradox , Consciousness research
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Abstract
Our objective will be to trace some important stepping stones of the opposite polarities that exist in all kingdoms of nature. We shall refer to major discoveries of contemporary science, selected in the light of logical and psychological views
from Eastern and Western philosophers. It will be seen that a spontaneous movement of alternance between those polarities exists. Those polarities can also be called dualities, or complementarities, in the sense given to the concept by the great physicist Niels Bohr at the beginning of this century. In this sense, these alternances we shall analyze can be characterized as alternances between two characteristics that are mutually exclusive. As there is a movement from one to the other, i.e., there is only one characteristic appearing at a time, the other being present but not apparent, we can also say that one is actualized when the other is potentialized, and vice versa.