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ideas specifically human which have become. Overwhelmingly important although contradicting the first.” says Le compte du Nouy.
Inspite of all this, the range of human brain far exceeds even the supermost computer. What would happen if the entire brain is used ? E. Lester Smith in Intellegene Came First says... There remain realms in which the computer is entirely powerless and the human being is without even a potential rival. Aesthetic, artistic, religions and moral values and indeed any judgements that cannot be qualified are totally beyond any computer's competence. ...The brain though relatively slow is much subtle in its operations being able to process many lines of information simultaneously; also its storage capacity is enormous and it has better access to its memory and cross refering than computer. Computer only augments man, it does not replace him.
That is why Julian Huxly said......"We must switch more and more of our scientific efforts from the exploration of outer space to that of inner space, the realm of our own minds and psychometabolic process at work in it. It is here that the greatest discoveries will be made, here that the largest and most fruitful territories await our accupancy. All branches of science and learning can join in this venture of exploration.” Integrating Science and Religion
Man is always torn by two voices. One of them is what is labelled as Scientific. It rejects the existence of any supreme power or purusha which like the tiny seed of the Banyan tree contains all that was, all that is and all that will be in the universe. It is the mundane, secular and material that matters, not the moral, aesthetic and spiritual. It is the end that matters, not the means. It is the self agrandisement that matters not the sharing with and sacrifice for the fellow beings,
In his poem, The Rock, T.S. Eliot laments the price
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