In particular, I don't see how it gives rise to a theory.
Perhaps I didn't actually address this directly. You're right, nothing in Vedanta as far as I know gives rise to an actual TOE, it just claims that one exists.
In some ways, you might think the idea that there exists a "Theory of Everything" is trivially true. Although in other ways, it's a specific hypothesis, a claim about the nature of reality. I guess it just depends on how narrowly you define the phrase. Usually it's used in a more narrow sense than just "some theory that describes the world". I think there is in particular a sense that there are no individual objects that interact with each other (aside from the approximate concepts our minds construct), and no precise way to separate any part from the whole.
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:32 am (UTC)In particular, I don't see how it gives rise to a theory.
Perhaps I didn't actually address this directly. You're right, nothing in Vedanta as far as I know gives rise to an actual TOE, it just claims that one exists.
In some ways, you might think the idea that there exists a "Theory of Everything" is trivially true. Although in other ways, it's a specific hypothesis, a claim about the nature of reality. I guess it just depends on how narrowly you define the phrase. Usually it's used in a more narrow sense than just "some theory that describes the world". I think there is in particular a sense that there are no individual objects that interact with each other (aside from the approximate concepts our minds construct), and no precise way to separate any part from the whole.