"We the humans pride ourselves to be the most intelligent species of all. Our vanity is in our uniqueness. Our vanity is in our unpredictability. Our vanity is in our rich, vivid and unique mental lives." Naskar's What is Mind? is a breathtaking investigative odyssey that attempts to resolve the fundamental distinction between Mind and Matter, with which the philosophers have struggled for millennia. He elucidates in his peerless explanatory ways, how Mind and Matter are not separate after all. They are intertwined in every single aspect of human life. In What is Mind? Abhijit Naskar,...
"We the humans pride ourselves to be the most intelligent species of all. Our vanity is in our uniqueness. Our vanity is in our unpredictability. Our ...
"Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion." "Once upon a time, there was a frog that lived in a well. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. One day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well. "Where are you from?" "I am from the sea." "The sea How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and it took a leap from one side of the well to the other. "My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?" Then the frog took another leap...
"Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion." "Once upon a time, there was a fr...
Love, God & Neurons is a hair-raising tale of a naive college dropout from Bengal becoming one of twenty-first century's most influential minds in Neuroscience. Called "a self-trained scientist and thinker" (Michael Persinger) and "a prolific, imaginative neuroscientist" (Ronald Cicurel), Abhijit Naskar cheerfully looks back on years of philosophical, spiritual and scientific adventures, while closely analyzing them with the Science of the Mind. In his surreal and captivating manner of writing, he gives us a glimpse of the internal molecular storms that used to give him countless sleepless...
Love, God & Neurons is a hair-raising tale of a naive college dropout from Bengal becoming one of twenty-first century's most influential minds in Neu...
-Muslims are just as peace-loving as the Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddhists. Religions are not good or bad, neither are the books that apparently represent them. Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.-
In The Islamophobic Civilization, one of twenty-first century's most influential minds in Neuroscience and International Best-selling Author Abhijit Naskar has undertaken the responsibility to give humanity the scientific insight of the biological underpinnings of one of the most disgraceful...
-Muslims are just as peace-loving as the Christians, Hindus, Jews or Buddhists. Religions are not good or bad, neither are the books that ap...
"There are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools."
In this seminal work, the celebrated humanitarian Scientist Abhijit Naskar, makes a breath-taking attempt to rekindle the spark of Humanism in the heart of thinking humanity. In Principia Humanitas, Naskar, the man who has brought Neuroscience into practice towards dismantling the citadels of religious conflicts, gives a wake up call to the moral compass of modern humans and...
"There are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the fe...
-A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability - where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn - where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.-
One of the world's seminal minds in modern science comes to the rescue of today's...
-A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students...
-In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.-
Abhijit Naskar, a globally acclaimed author comes to the investigation of a divine character of the Eastern religious philosophy-Krishna. With the tools of modern Neuroscience, he enables us to look into the imaginary Krishna character, created by an ancient Indian man, and discover its biological impact on...
-In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and rel...