Tweet is twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Welcome, everyone. I direct programs at the museum of art where we do our best to channel the traditions of the high himalayas and offer them here in the 21st century, and what are we scoring tonight, this is called brainwave where we pair my scientists to attempt to figure out what this thing we think of as reality actually is, we are going to find that out tonight no question. So this whole series is based on the idea of perception. Those who have visited the shrine room will know that the shrine room is devised as a sensory experience. You not only see things but you smell the fragrance in the air. Are you allowed to touch . Dont touch the precious object if you dont mind. You take the whole thing in. You can hear the sounds and you also realize how limited you are in terms of your perception because you are not taking everything in. In tibetan buddhism there are not five senses, there are six
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Good morning, everyone. Sorry about the delay but, you know, without a little problem, life is no fun, right . As some of you know, im a federal judge about two blocks away, and im reminded this morning this is deja vu all over again. Now, one could draw a couple of conclusions from this, and that is i did such a great job they asked me back, the other one is they had to find someone who was willing to get up on a saturday morning and do this. But i think the second explanation is really the best one, because were all readers, and we all love authors, and we just want to be here. So welcome. So starting at my right is the narrator of this mornings panel, pamela paul. Shes the editor of the New York Times book review and is also an author in her own right. She writes the popular feature buy the book and interview feature in the magazine. Every morning i and many other readers of the New York Times book review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer or
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