The Converging Quest for Reality: A Narrative of Consilience

This batch of 8 documents constitutes The Converging Quest for Reality: A Narrative of Consilience by Rowan Brad Quni (2025). The work explores humanity's diverse attempts to understand reality, knowledge, and existence across cultural and disciplinary boundaries, from ancient myths and philosophies (East and West) to modern science. It delves into key themes such as ontological foundations (substance, process, emptiness), cosmogenesis, time, causality, scientific epistemology, consciousness, and the drive for unification. The narrative seeks 'consilience' by highlighting points where disparate paths of inquiry converge or productively challenge one another, particularly noting unexpected resonances between modern physics and Eastern philosophical traditions. The goal is to construct a unified account of this dynamic intellectual evolution.