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Perspective

A call for collaboration

Dr. Anand Kumar

Abstract
Among the various efforts of mankind to arrive at the truth of things, Science and
Philosophy occupy special places. Both are efforts of reason to discover the truth. What
is needed however is to realise the present limits of the human consciousness itself and
thereby seek to go beyond our present limits.

Poetry is the precursor of philosophy. Laureates started working out a model of
Philosophy is the application of mind to human consciousness. Edelman gave the idea
understand the mind, the individual and the of immune memory, Crick located tubulin
universe. Earlier, philosophy and psychology molecule as centre of consciousness and so on.
were a single department in universities.
Philosophy incubates fundamental questions
and intellectually and mathematically
speculates the answer. Many philosophers are
mathematicians. Philosophy throws the same
questions to science to prove empirically and
experimentally. Science does that but solving
one query opens scientifically insoluble queries
and the scientist speculates and argues as
a philosopher to answer and becomes a
philosopher.

The question before science and philosophy
are the same. But their means are different. The greatest breakthrough in science will be
But both land at more philosophy in the end. an understanding of the limit of human
The ultimate question is the limit of human consciousness and what exactly it is.
awareness or consciousness. At the end of Artificial Intelligence tools, mathematics,
the road of comprehension at least 40 Nobel computation and neurosciences are most

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