Metaphysics and Science Go on a Date

We all get lucky.

The three basic principles of yoga are: I am not the mind, I am not the body, I am not the doer. 

The obvious questions then become: what are you? and who is the doer?—more broadly stated, what is this (of which I am a part) and how does this behave?

Metaphysics and science attempt to settle these questions in their own way.

Bernardo Kastrup:

Science is the study of nature’s behavior not of what nature is, so it is a misunderstanding to attribute scientific and technological developments to materialism. Materialism is just a way of thinking about that behavior. What empirical experimentation gives you is information about the behavior, not about the nature of the thing that behaves, and this is a very important distinction because it bears on the scientific method itself—what questions can it answer fundamentally? The scientific method is based on experimentation and what experiments tell you is how nature behaves, how nature reacts to an initial set of circumstances and an action imprinted on nature. So fundamentally it only tells you how nature behaves. But that’s enough for you to develop technology. If you have behavioral models of nature—predictive models—and you know how nature will behave if you do this and that, that’s all you need to create mobile phones and medicine and cars and space ships. It is irrelevant what nature essentially is.