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Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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Psychology and Maya

Friday, February 13, 2009

Yesterday in my psychology class, we learned about the nature of vision and perception — some of you probably knew all of this earlier, but the information was new to me — our experience of the world is not only entirely subjective, it is basically entirely created by our mind! For example, we all should [...]

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