Vedāntic view of life: Reply to Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

Vedāntic view of life: Reply to Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

The author would like to thank Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés from Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois for his interest in his work. We may sometimes observe that there is a noticeable difference between the anecdote people narrate about the implications of a scientific paper and the real conclusion of the paper. Prof. Gustavo Caetano-Anollés's response(1) is an ideal example...

Life and consciousness - The Vedāntic view.

In the past, philosophers, scientists, and even the general opinion, had no problem in accepting the existence of consciousness in the same way as the existence of the physical world. After the advent of Newtonian mechanics, science embraced a complete materialistic conception about reality. Scientists started proposing hypotheses like abiogenesis (origin of first life from accumulation of atom...

Vendantic view on life and consciousness: BN Shanta is correct

The explanation for Vedanta offered by Bhakti Niskama Santa (BNS)1 is valid from both scientific and philosophical grounds. It seems that the published critique of Gustavo Caetano-Anollés (GCA)2 to Shanta's paper is purely emotional and does not have any valid scientific or philosophical justification. In his rebuttal to Caetano-Anollés's critique, Shanta3 highlighted how the concept of 'Organi...

A phylogenomic reconstruction of the protein world based on a genomic census of protein fold architecture

MINGLEI WANG, SIMINA MARIA BOCA, RAKHEE KALELKAR, JAY E. MITTENTHAL, AND GUSTAVO CAETANO-ANOLLÉS Department of Crop Sciences, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 This paper was submitted as an invited paper resulting from the “Understanding Complex Systems” conference held at the University of Illinois–Urban...

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