Marcelo Gleiser
@mgleiser
Physicist, essayist, curator of the unknown, author of DAWN OF A MINDFUL UNIVERSE and THE BLIND SPOT, endurance trail runner, lover of mountains.
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Very excited about this as I’m soon joining the University of Siena as a visiting professor Università di Siena
Hunting for this quote, I found Marcelo Gleiser’s nice essay. “Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously … They appear together but we do not know why.” How can mind and matter appear in the same “now”? npr.org/sections/13.7/…
Starting in September I have a new academic address for a while at SienaUniversityUNISI! Very excited to join this department and new colleagues- and the mix of physics with earth and environmental sciences couldn’t be more perfect!
What a honor to work with my colleague and friend Marcelo Gleiser on this Templeton Foundation-funded initiative, with luminaries like Peter Ulric Tse (pictured here) and Adam Frank among so many others!
.Marcelo Gleiser’s new think tank, the Incubator for Human Flourishing, brings together scientists, artists, and philosophers worldwide to Italy to address the challenges facing humanity. Learn more about his mission to inspire positive change. bit.ly/3ORKiWu
And I am grateful to InkWell Management to help us amplify our voices through our books. And to co-create this experiment on human flourishing with my dear friend William Egginton
Earth may not need us, but we need Earth. 🌎 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate Marcelo Gleiser is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and a leading proponent of the view that science, philosophy, and spirituality are complementary expressions of humanity’s need to embrace mystery and…