Recently discovered this site which contains great discussion on Buddhism from science, culture, biology, maths ...by Sean Robsville
http://kwelos.tripod.com/index.html
Some quotes:
participating universe:
Quantum theory states that any physical system remains in a superposed state of all possibilities until it interacts with the mind of an observer. Both quantum theory and Buddhist teachings on sunyata suggest that as soon as an observer's mind makes contact with a superposed system, all the numerous possibilities collapse into one actuality. At some instant one of these possible alternative universes produced an observing lifeform
Emptiness:
The ultimate unfindability of the real nature of all phenomena - their lack inherent existence, is usually referred to by English-speaking Buddhists as 'emptiness', which is a translation of the Sanskrit word Sunyata (sometimes spelled Shunyata). According to David Loy the English word emptiness has a more nihilistic connotation than the original Sanskrit. The Sanskrit root su also conveys the concept of being swollen with possibility [LOY 1996]. It is therefore most important not to confuse emptiness with total nothingness. Emptiness implies the potential for existence and change. The mathematical analogy of emptiness is not zero, but the empty set.
Dukka explained in evoluatinoary biology:
(1) The first step is to recognise the inevitability of dukkha - the sense of
unsatisfactoriness and the certainty of ultimate loss of everything, which haunts all
sentient beings even in the absence of manifest suffering.
(2) The second is to recognise the origins of these futile strivings in our
biologically conditioned evolutionary history. If we want to stop being the puppets of our
genes and memes we need to clearly understand why we're attached to these particular
strings.
(3) The third step is to realise that it needn't be like this. This is
perhaps the most difficult one for a materialist. It
involves realising that the root mind is non-physical and that it can escape from the
eternal evolutionary treadmill.
(4) The fourth step is adopting a liberating technology that stabilises the
root mind and protects it against uncontrolled attachment to further striving, suffering,
biological rebirths.