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Mythology

🌐 public · created AE550414 (14.04.2025) · by DDH · author: Daniel D. Hromada · open in the standard editor view · ▶ open as narrated presentation

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA

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  • Mythology 🔊
    Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FRS FBA
    • is_parent Bhagavadgita
      The Bhagavad Gita (cca. 500 BC) is a philosophical dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and his mythical charioteer Krishna, set on a battlefield symbolizing th
      • is_parent soul is eternal 🔒 ·
        Sanskrit (Bhagavad Gita 2.20):na jāyate mriyate vā kadācinnāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥajo nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ purāṇona hanyate hanyamāne śarīreTranslation:
      • is_parent soul changes bodies like garments 🔒 ·
        Sanskrit (Bhagavad Gita 2.22):vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāyanavāni gṛhṇāti naro ’parāṇitathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānianyāni saṁyāti navāni dehīTranslation:“As a pe
      • is_parent soul cannot be destroyed 🔒 ·
        Sanskrit (Bhagavad Gita 2.23):nainaṁ chindanti śastrāṇinainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥna cainaṁ kledayanty āpona śoṣayati mārutaḥTranslation:“Weapons cannot cut it, fire
    • is_parent Eros and Psyche ·
      Maydays assignment: Listen to the audiobook "Eros and Psyche"   https://cloud.medienhaus.udk-berlin.de/library/27ec39fd-d4ce-4250-b4db-ff6eab19ee1f/Apuleui
    • is_parent Myth of the Androgyne
      And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love. There was a time, I say, wh
      • is_parent 🔒 ·
        Does this Platonic myth appear in current art, culture ?Is it somehow relevant to You ?With which psychological concepts which were already introduced could be
    • is_parent Proto-psychological terms of ancient India
      Vṛtti (वृत्ति) – Fluctuations of the mind (thoughts, emotions, perceptions); most dynamic and gross. Saṁskāra (संस्कार) – Latent impressions or ment
      • is_parent Vrittis - Manas - Chitta 🔒 ·
        Vṛttis are mental waves — thoughts, emotions, memories, and perceptions constantly rising and falling. Cognitive events (thoughts, perceptions, emotions)
      • is_parent Buddhi (बुद्धि) 🔒 ·
        The capacity to discriminate, reason, judge, and make decisions. It evaluates inputs from manas and chooses a response.Cognitive Science Correlates: Executive f
      • is_parent Ahamkara (आहंकार) 🔒 ·
        The function that identifies the pure “I” (aham) with thoughts, roles, body, emotions — forming the personal identity and ego. It says “I am this.” and "I do".C
      • is_parent Aham (अहम्) 🔒 ·
        Definition: The bare, pre-reflective sense of being a subject — “I am.” Not yet identifying with roles or narratives .Cognitive Science Correlates: Minimal self
      • is_parent Jiva (जीव) 🔒 ·
        "That which lives" or "the living being" Jīva is the individualized expression of consciousness that experiences and engages with the world as a distinct center
      • is_parent Atman (आत्मन्) 🔒 ·
        The deepest layer of identity — pure awareness, witness of all experiences, beyond mental content and roles. In some philosophical traditions equivalent to subs
    • is_parent Warmup Exercise
      Create groups of five. Discuss & present to each other Your personal answers to the question "What is soul / (How) can/do You define it ?
      • is_parent Group 1 🔒 ·
        split - some people believe, some not, some unsure lot of questions, no answer can one have soul if You are not conscious ? the essence of something, that's wha
      • is_parent Group 2 🔒 ·
        housed by the body there's physicality to it (the soul) soul only exists when we believe it and feel it
      • is_parent Group 3 🔒 ·
        bridge between the one that sees and what is being seen the whole is the ocean, the individual is the droplet more abstract, not something You can fit into logi
      • is_parent Group 4 🔒 ·
        supposed to represent the Core as a metaphysical existence, something very crucial what the person "really" / "objectively" IS person's way to go beyond
      • is_parent Group 5 🔒 ·
        matryoshka not material ? how to materialize it ? is it soft / does it break ? soul can be (not be) influenced by experience where is the soul ? (in whole body