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Trusting the senses
I haven’t been able to forget a comment David Abram made during his keynote at a conference I attended in the spring. He said even science, devoted as it is to studying the material world, in practice acts as if … Continue reading
Posted in nature, spirituality
Tagged animism, attitudes toward nature, Brian Greene, David Abram, Descartes, Plato, science, science and religion
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String theory for mere mortals
I had the treat this week of attending a lecture by Brian Greene on the CU campus—another packed-to-the-gills science lecture, this one in a two-thousand-seat auditorium. Greene’s book The Elegant Universe and PBS documentary of the same name a few … Continue reading
Posted in education, nature
Tagged Brian Greene, cosmology, physics, science, string theory
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