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The Four Fundamental Causes

This post is an ambitious attempt to link the four causes delineated by Aristotle, to the four questions asked by Tinbergen to the four types of explanations that can be made for any human/animal ability. First a bit of a background. Aristotle had listed four causes - Material, Efficient, Formal and Final causes. From the Wikipedia: Aristotle held that there were four kinds of causes: A thing's ...

The Eight Rasas (aesthetic essences)

According to Indian Aesthetics , as outlined in Bharat Muni's Natyashatra, there are eight Rasas or impacts that an aesthetic piece of work like dance form/ literary piece, tries to achieve/invoke in the beholder/reader. These can be loosely thought of as eight different kinds of aesthetic experiences. As is evident I like all things eight, as I believe they have an underlying eight fold evo-devo st...

The four mechanisms of evolution

Regular readers of the blog will know of my enthusiasm for evolutionary and developmental theories especially the eight stage evo-devo theory. I have also advocated the four primary problems faced by all creatures undergoing evolution, as delineated by Theodore Millon- the problems of Existence; Adaptation; Replication and Abstraction which lead to polarities of pain/pleasure; active/passive; self/other and ...

Buddha's Brain

I recently came across an authors@google talk by Rick Hanson, who is the author of 'Buddha's Brain: the practical neuroscience of happiness, love and wisdom' and was immediately drawn by the similarity of the framework he uses and my ABCD model. Rick draws a lot from the Buddhist tradition and its humbling to find many similarities between what buddha preached thousands of years ago and what neuroscience tell ...

The Eight Rasas/Emotions (contd)

In the last post we looked at the eight Rasas and how they are related to the eight color terms and the eight basic emotions. Another list of basic emotions follows from the work of Carroll Izard; Izard is interested in the infants facial expressions and believes that due to lack of socialization etc there is perfect concordance between the infants facial expressions and infants emotional...

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