Does M-Theory prove Advaita's Brahman?

[DanielR]

If so how??

I'm starting to shift my interests from philosophy (different strands) to some Physics.

Someone willing to Eli5 to me?

I feel like there is some connection but I'm not able to put it into thoughts or words.

 

[Jainarayan]

You mean something like quantum physics and Vedanta?

 

[Valjean]

LOL -- M theory doesn't even prove M theory.
Don't get me wrong. I'm a fan, but let's face it. M theory is currently a hypothesis, at best.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Perhaps Quantum Mechanics has a better relationship with Advaita.

 

[DanielR]

thank you all haha

I thought I'd give it a try, it's a fascinating theory

 

[Valjean]

Waking-state reality is illusory (maya). It's a dream; not objectively real, but it is subjectively real (cf: The Matrix).

All we see and experience exists only in our own minds. If I dream of a bear, that bear is real to me within the dream. If, in waking-state, I bloviate endlessly on RF, the computer in front of me is real -- again subjectively -- just like the bear.

I created the bear. I created the computer. I'm equally capable of dreaming/creating a Deva.

Ergo, Gods can be real -- subjectively -- just like dream bears and dream computers.

QED

 

[Aupmanyav]

Maya does not mean that there is nothing at that place (difference from Buddhism which is not very concerned with the question). Maya is that what is there is different from what it seems to be. So, pragmatically Ishvara at lower level of reality, absolutely nothing other than Brahman anywhere at the highest level of reality - Sankara. Just a clarification.

 

[Valjean]

Maya does not mean that there is nothing at that place (difference from Buddhism which is not very concerned with the question). Maya is that what is there is different from what it seems to be. So, pragmatically Ishvara at lower level of reality, absolutely nothing other than Brahman anywhere at the highest level of reality - Sankara. Just a clarification.

I understand, but don't see how that contradicts my post. Reality is hierarchal, it's layered. How it's perceived depends on level of consciousness.
My bear and computer are objectively different from what I perceive them to be. At another level they may be interference patterns or swirls in an electromagnetic field. The raccoon in the upper left is not objectively Real. At a deeper level it's a string of 1s and 0s, at an even deeper level....

 

[Aupmanyav]

I had no intention of contradicting your post. It was, as I said, just a further clarification.

 

[DanielR]

But wouldn't the existence of Strings confirm Buddhism more than Advaita for example?

Or does M-theory propose some unifying ground like Brahman, is it a certain brane?

 

[Aupmanyav]

Perhaps Brahman is a point particle with zero dimension and all things arise from it.