Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

12-5-2019

Disciplines

Religion

Abstract

Human uniqueness revolves around our knowing. All knowing is "tacit" (Michael Polanyi) and leads to "indwelling" of mind in reality, as of reality in mind. This is why we always "know more than we can tell," which corresponds with another old adage, "the whole is more than the sum of the parts." This presentation will try to show that the vast spectrum of knowing is continuous, running from discoveries of the inanimate world, through biology and the humanities and arts, and even to "the face of God."

Comments

This forum lecture was based on the essay Transcendent Mind, Emergent Universe in the Thought of Michael Polanyi, also by Vincent Smiles.

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