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...sentient being capable of experiencing life just as does a human. But does that diminish the mystery and glory of consciousness? Does it change its unique place in the fundamental scheme of things in this universe? Can we ever objectively solve the mystery of consciousness through consciousness? MANI L. BHAUMIK Los Angeles...
...idea of a conflict between the worlds of matter and spirit inspired Mani, a member of a Christian sect in 3rd century Mesopotamia. He saw the cosmos as divided between opposing forces: light and dark, good and evil, spirit and matter. Our age, he said, was chaotic because darkness had swallowed up portions of the light. But, he said, Jesus came into the world as part of a battle to distill light from the darkness. This dualistic philosophy was Manichaeism, and it would find adherents from North Africa to southern China...
...money-making scheme proceeds smoothly until a gang of Alaskan loggers arrive bringing with them a woodcutter who is dissatisfied with Mahagonny. In the Lowell production, Jimmy McIntyre (Emmanuel Mani Cadet) is portrayed as somehow more innocent and pure than his fellow men despite his almost immediate adoption of Jenny (Laura Bewig) as his prostitute and lover. Director Kirk Williams portrays Jimmy's dissatisfaction as stemming from Mahagonny's obvious flaws (its lack of concern for anything other than human pleasure), while the libretto itself and an understanding of Brecht's theater would indicate that Jimmy is no better than...
Actually, it would be hard to find many scientists who consider their own consciousness to be an illusion. And wouldn't such scientists come to this conclusion through their consciousness? Then the very edifice through which they perceived reality would be deemed an illusion and not an integral part of the real universe. Just because scientists don't know as yet how consciousness arises, it would be most unscientific to consider it an illusion. MANI L. BHAUMIK Los Angeles...
These days, his research centers on lattices in high-dimensional spaces, specifically four-mani-folds and the geometry of four-dimensional space. Elkies' expertise lies out side high-dimensional geometries, but he found when confronted with a major problem in the field that "one of the questions could be stated and solved without that background...