동아시아 시공간의 과학철학적 독법

Abstract

This paper examines East Asian Traditional Perspectives on Space-Time in connection with the splendid achievements of contemporary Physics such as Einstein’s Theory of Relatives and Quantum Mechanics. As the second of three articles on time and space, this paper discusses traditional East Asian perspectives of space-time from the meta-science aspect. The three main topics are the Western theories of time and space, the characteristics of the East Asian perspective of space-time, and the space-time representation of the East Asian literature and arts from the convergent perspective of science and humanities. The big change in the way we look at time and space began with Einstein’s theory of relativity. The main concept of this is that time and space are relative and are no more the discrete absolute subject, but rather geometric curvature that energy and density of matters produce. In my opinion, this is not a dichotomy of the formal logic of discrimination and exclusion in Western intellectual history, but rather an epistemological shift to a internal and transcendental dichotomy of mutual harmony. And these internal and transcendental thoughts were already deeply imprinted on the main thoughts of East Asia: The Book of Change, Laozi-Zhuangzi, and Buddhism. This paper is an reinterpretation from the combined viewpoints of the Modern Physics and Traditional East Asian Thoughts. And the interpretation of Ji(卽) as a Collapse of Wave Function, I.e.. immediate presentation from the field of potentiality. In regard to perspective of space-time I inquired into three main texts, i.e., The Book of Change, Laozi-Zhuangzi, and Buddhism and and Nagarjuna ZhongLun(中論) as below. ①The Book of Change: 0 and 1, yin-yang semiotics, The Book of Change, super-dichotomy of yin-yang, equivalent meaning of Taiji(太極) and Wuji(無極).② Laozi-Zhuangzi Taoism: intertextuality of visible and invisible worlds, i.e., Changdao(常道) and Kedao(可道). These are represented as World of Existing(有) and Nothing(無) also. and interpretation of Wuhua(物化) seen in Zhuangzi’s story of ‘Dream of Butterfly’(蝴蝶夢). ③ Perspective of Emptiness(空) in Prajnaparamita(般若) Sutra and Nagarjuna(龍樹) ‘Zhonglun’(中論) in Buddhism, Co-arising and Co-relating of all Things in the World from Indra’s Net. I think tangential thoughts and interpretations in this paper suggest a sort of connecting possibility of open sight between two different modes of thought, i.e., Western Science and East Asian humanities. We need to investigate further in various areas for tangential research like this in the middle of the vision of a cultural integration.