Opening the Idea: How Do We Know What We Know? November 1, 2010

Does the act of observing change the phenomena being observed? Is our capacity to perceive limited by the immutable dynamics of knowledge systems? Choreographer Liz Lerman joins physicists William Dorland and Theodore Einstein to explore “the poetry of the mind” and discuss how scientific thought and performing arts experience intertwine in Lerman’s new work, The Matter of Origins.

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