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Syntropy 2013 (2): 243-279
ISSN 1825-7968
higher dimensions of knowledge which emphasize more on underlying identify (common soul) among all living beings than differences among them.
Finally it is proposed that the process of enlightenment as described in Jainism to achieve the highest state of soul is accompanied by a decrease in rate of entropy production and decrease in resource consumption at every stage. Hence there is a need to talk of some Order parameter like Syntropy.
Keywords: Scientific knowledge, Knowledge of consciousness, Soul, Shatavdhanie, General Systems Theory, Order, Size of atoms and nuclei, Extra Sensory Perception, Survival of the fittest, Live and Let Live, Entropy and spirituality.
This paper is dedicated to my mother Late Shrimati Lahar Kunwar Pokharna, who has laid foundation for doing this type of work.
1. Introduction
Science and technology and their use in economic developments and commercialization have revolutionized the whole world in such a way that everything appears to have changed in last 100-200 years. Developments in the field of space technology, atomic energy, electronics, biotechnology, modern agriculture, telecommunication, and manufacturing systems are some of the examples of these changes. However, they have also resulted in an increase in population, depletion of natural resources, damage to the environment, increase in terrorism, threats of nuclear wars and so on. These changes also have played a key role in making this world truly global. However, all these consequences have resulted in a large scale increase in entropy in the world at different levels in different fields (Pokharna 2012). In addition, because of these changes and domination of science and technology in all walks of life, an impression has been created that scientific knowledge is the supreme and anything other, which does not fall into this domain is not very relevant. But Science and technology are just two hundred years old only and there was a concept of knowledge and technology even before the modern science came into the existence.
Actually one finds that scientific methods developed to study the physical systems are not adequate when human systems are also included in this type of formalism (John Gigch, 1978, Bertalanffy, 1976), because all living systems are essentially irreversible in nature, that is they grow and decay and they are open systems compared to the physical systems which are closed systems. So the biological and social systems cannot be strictly subjected to the process of measurement and hence they are not exactly describable in the strict terminology of the physical, sciences. Also any type of experimentation is not possible in case of human systems
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