Confluence of Opposites

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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SCIENCE
demands a satisfactory explanation from those who would explain these phenomena by a simple exaggeration or magnifying of the primal nucleus. There is not an iota of evidence to support the proposition that a bare sensation of touch can be transformed into clairvoyant perception or logical inference, and you certainly cannot expect to have the highly cultured mind of Kant or a Schopenhauer by multiplying a simple sensation of touch a thousand, a million or even a hundred thousand millions of times by itself.
Besides this, what is bound up in an atom must be altogether inalienable from it, because an atom is indestructible and therefore devoid of separable parts and qualities. The intensification of an inner psychic state of an entity like our supposed atomic soul is altogether out of the qustion, since no such soul is possessed of any alienable attributes which it might gift away or lend to a brother or sister in need. Nor can you lend any of your psychic properties to any of your needy brethren, for will, memory, judgment and sight are not transferable like worldly goods.
We thus see that the supposition of an atomic senis tivity as the primal nucleus which becomes, by gradual intensification, the highly varsatile soul of a Christ or a Kant is utterly inadequate to explain the fact and phenomena of consciousness and must be rejected. But materialism has yet another thesis to advance to account for consciousness. We are now told by another set of materialists that consciousness is the