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The metaphysical insights of the Buddhist Yogacara (Mind-Only) and Madhyamaka (Emptiness school) philosophers have great relevance in the metaphysical dimension of debates such as these. But knowledge of this is very rare. Unfortunately, the New-Age vague exuberance of people like Deepak Chopra clouds and muddies the waters of understanding just how precise and profound the metaphysical work of Buddhist metaphysicians is. This is not to say that Chopra's views are worthless, but they lack precision, and because people tend to consider he is one of the leading lights in the field of 'science and spirituality this means that the full depth of Buddhist philosophy, in particular, is rarely comprehended by interested parties. The Yogacara school elucidated the functioning of the quantum wavefunction, in a non-mathematical way. The Madhyamaka indicated the logical nature of the ultimate ground of reality as being exactly that of quantum fields. - quantumbuddhism.org

39:30 Never declare you biases. 😎

1:10:35 "Math and the Humanities" It's interesting that the seven original Liberal Arts included more than one kind of math. Arithmetic and Geometry were seen as two distinct arts. Trivium -- Rhetoric, Logic, Grammar Quadrivium -- Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music