/lit/ - Literature

>>18882330
>>In Lokāyata and Buddhism mind is living matter itself, variously explained.
This is EXACTLY one of the Wrong Views stated by Buddha in the first few Suttas. Pseudo-intellectual scientists.

>>17869429
>Monotheism (and its variations like marxism or new atheism) directly confronts nature or any sort of chaos or complexity by reducing everything to simple answers based on what’s written in some holy book.
This. Monotheism, or even monism in general, is a product of the reductionism of cities. Humans are reduced to one-dimensional beings by the nature of city-life, and are compelled by such to believe in the monad. Interaction with the plurality of nature gives one a direct and far more real experience of the actual world, thereby causing a tendency for polytheism of various sorts.

Compare:
Buddha (constantly wandering through nature alone) to the Brahmins who composed the Upanishads (living in sheltered cities constantly speculating).
Augustine/Aquinas (all urbanites) to the older Greeks like Homer who composed the Iliad (constantly traveling and wandering to different places)

Basically it goes beyond just what's written in the Holy Book. It's actual a direct experience of reality which influences their tendency to reduce all life to one dimension (the Monad) in opposition to a plurality. City life and extreme agriculturalism are directly responsible for the tendency to switch to monistic views.

>>17809504
>Then where is their religion, art, economics, science? Why haven't we observed them using symbolic langauge in the wild? When we teach them "language," why can't they teach it to their fellow ape?
Because they lack a higher level of intelligence, which is also genetic.
>their is no language gene.
Yes there is, but it is more like multiple genes. It's the reason humans learn language after birth and most animals don't. The only difference between machines is that instead of genes, it is code.
>Through the invention/discovery of language. See above.
Begging the question, which you never answered.