Vedic Residue, Cosmic Inflation and a Unified Vision of Everything

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by Marco Giammarchi1 and Luca Guzzardi2
1 Università degli Studi (Milan, Italy)
2 Università degli Studi (Milan, Italy)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/31/3
Received: 13 March 2023 / Accepted: 31 March 2023 / Published: 15 October 2023

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Abstract

We present a unified vision of human knowledge, the external world and ourselves in the frame of an overall unity of Everything. Two main sources of knowledge are considered to this goal: an admittedly reductionist version of Modern Science and a few key elements of Oriental Philosophy. Our view is based on an analogy between the fundamental unity of Vedic ontology and the Grand Unification scheme of Particle Physics traced along the evolution of the Universe. Our key statement is that these two sources of knowledge describe the same ontological story of separation, from an original One down to the multiplicity of the phenomenological world. We further substantiate this vision by drawing an analogy between the Residue of the Vedic sacrifice and the post-Big-Bang cosmological Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry. We also discuss a Big-Bang analogy between the postulated field of Inflationary Cosmology (the Inflaton) and the Vedic dissolution-decomposition of the cosmic progenitor Prajapati – whose body, according to Brahmanas texts, provides the material substrate of which the Universe is built.

Keywords: Indian Philosophy, Quantum Theory, Theories of Everything, Vedic Sacrifice, Big Bang

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Giammarchi, Marco and Luca Guzzardi (2023) Vedic Residue, Cosmic Inflation and a Unified Vision of Everything. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 31, 21-36. https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/31/3
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