Mark:
Your comments parallel quite closely what the Dalai Lama states:
I have noticed that many people hold an assumption that the scientific view of the world should be the basis for all knowledge and all that is knowable. This is scientific materialism. . . .
One of the principal problems with a radical scientific materialism is the narrowness of vision that results and the potential for nihilism that might ensue. Nihilism, materialism, and reductionism are above all problems from a philosophical and especially a human perspective, since they can potentially impoverish the way we see ourselves.
He writes so many other splendid thoughts, but I must stop here or I'll find myself typing out the book.
Richard
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