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Mindful Science
Piet Hut, a Dutch theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton's
Institute for Advanced Study, creates and explores large-scale computer
simulations of star clusters and galaxies. He is also cofounder, along
with another physicist, a cognitive psychologist, a philosopher of science
and a scholar in Eastern religious traditions, of the fledgling Kira Institute
("Kira" is word that derives from the Japanese sound associated
with a Twinklin star). The Kira group is using an interdisciplinary approach
to study the connections between science and human experience. Marilyn
Berlin Snell recently spoke with Hut about science, subjectivity and the
fine art of Haiku.
Princeton - It is a paradox of being human that
in order to see fully into something - whether scientific, artistic or
religious - we often seem to have to first step back.
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