Dawson Preethi | වචන ටැක්සි

  I have published the first episode of a new Sinhala series investigating the origins of human cognition from the perspectives of evolutionary psychology, philosophy, AI, and psychoanalysis. One of the central ideas discussed is that knowledge does not necessarily require language . Evolution accumulated successful behavioural solutions over millions of years and embodied them within DNA. Instincts are not merely behaviours; they represent information preserved through natural selection, allowing organisms to respond adaptively without explicit reasoning or symbolic communication. This provides an interesting analogy with modern Large Language Models. While the mechanisms are fundamentally different, both DNA and LLMs embody information acquired through extensive interaction with their respective environments. One preserves biological adaptations across generations; the other preserves statistical patterns extracted from language. Neither relies on conscious understanding, yet ...

When I walked into Dennis Perera's Neranjana , I expected to watch a controversial play about a man who falls in love with a goat. By the time the curtain fell, I realized that this was not the play I had actually seen. The goat, although central to the story, was never its true subject. Rather, the play gradually revealed itself as an exploration of a far more disturbing question: why does any object come to occupy the centre of human desire? Whether that object is another person, wealth, professional success, religion, political power, or, in this case, a goat, the underlying structure appears remarkably similar. It is precisely this structure that Jacques Lacan devoted much of his teaching to investigating. One detail immediately caught my attention. The protagonist's psychological disturbance does not begin after he falls in love with the goat. Long before the audience learns of the affair, something has already begun to fracture. He forgets words, loses concentration, hes...

  අලුත් ගමනක ඇරඹුම... මගේ YouTube නාලිකාව Dawson Preethi සිට The Geometry of Meaning ලෙස නව හැඳුනුම්පතකින් වැඩ පටන් ගන්නවා. මෙය නමක් වෙනස් කිරීමක් පමණක් නොවේ. විද් ‍ යාව, ගණිතය, කෘත් ‍ රිම බුද්ධිය (AI), ලැකානියානු මනෝවිශ්ලේෂණය, දර්ශනය, භාෂාව සහ අර්ථය අතර සැඟවුණු සම්බන්ධතා සොයා යන නව දිශාවක ආරම්භයක්. ඉංග් ‍ රීසියෙන් සහ සිංහලෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම් සැළසුම් කර ඇති අතර අපි තවදුරටත් සූදානම් වන්නේ පහසු පිළිතුරු දීමට නොව, ගැඹුරු ප් ‍ රශ්න ඇසීමටයි. ඔබත් මේ ගවේෂණයට එක්වෙන්න. The Geometry of Meaning — Where Science Meets Mind. https://youtu.be/rWkJ3A9N79o

Every few months, a familiar claim appears on social media: "The Buddha discovered quantum mechanics." Or perhaps: "Buddhism explained relativity 2,500 years before Einstein." Sometimes we are told that the Abhidhamma described subatomic particles, that the Buddha understood the Big Bang, or that Buddhist cosmology anticipated modern astrophysics. These comparisons are certainly fascinating. I have also written articles similar to these what I slightly criticise today a long time back, and those were clearly made my thinking on to this point now. They also attract many people to Buddhist philosophy who might otherwise never have explored it. But there is a danger. When we try too hard to prove that Buddhism was "scientifically correct," we may end up misunderstanding both Buddhism and science. Ironically, the Buddha deserves something better than that. Perhaps the more interesting question is not whether the Buddha discovered modern physics, but what kind...

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Two social phenomena have become increasingly visible in contemporary Sri Lankan social media. The first is the proliferation of channels presenting Buddhism alongside quantum mechanics, string theory, holographic universes, multidimensional realities, consciousness studies, and various scientific concepts. These presentations often suggest that hidden correspondences exist between ancient Buddhist teachings and the deepest secrets of modern physics.  The second phenomenon is the spread of narratives surrounding curses, karma, destiny, and political retribution. Following the social upheavals of 2022, many people observed that some individuals who publicly cursed politicians later died before those they had condemned. These deaths, although often explainable through ordinary causes, became incorporated into stories of cosmic justice, karmic revenge, or supernatural return. At first glance, these appear to be unrelated developments. One belongs to the realm of pseudo-scientific info...

  What If Nirvana Is Neither Enlightenment Nor Psychosis? For more than two thousand years, Buddhism has spoken about Nirvana as the end of suffering. For more than one hundred years, psychoanalysis has spoken about desire as something that can never be fully satisfied. At first glance, the two traditions seem destined to disagree. Buddhism appears to promise liberation from craving. Lacanian psychoanalysis insists that desire is woven into the very structure of human subjectivity. One tradition seeks freedom from attachment. The other warns that every attempt to escape desire may simply become another form of desire. But what if the disagreement is not as simple as it appears? What if Nirvana is neither a mystical union nor a psychological breakdown? What if it points toward a form of subjectivity that even Lacanian psychoanalysis struggles to describe? These questions led me to an unusual experiment. Rather than comparing Buddhism and psychoanalysis at the level of doctrines and ...