Saturday Conversations | 'X' cannot be created or destroyed | Week 8
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The concept of “X cannot be created or destroyed” is part of the ontology of many orthodox traditions of ancient philosophy in the Indian subcontinent. But it also appears in the ontology of ancient Greek philosophy and in the ontology of modern science.
Heraclitus, like Buddha, emphasised impermanence (change), saying “one cannot step into the same river twice.” In contrast, Plato, like the Vedantins, emphasised changelessness. The former called it Brahman, manifested as individual aatmans (souls) (Krishna’s law: soul is not created or destroyed.) The fifth postulate of Dalton’s atomic theory, proposed in 1808, is also about that which cannot be created or destroyed
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