Reality and consciousness: A view from the East Comment on 'Consciousness in the universe: A review of the 'Orch OR' theory' by Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose

摘要

I have been asked to comment from the viewpoint of Eastern philosophy, which at first glance will seem irrelevant to most physicists. The essence of Eastern philosophy is to approach reality through subjective experience. Science takes the objective world as a given and has excluded subjectivity. On the face of it, the two worldviews face in opposite directions, even though it cannot be denied that our only access to reality is through subjective experience. If there is a reality beyond human awareness, it will remain unknown to us.