#TART (The Atypical Reality Types) --- SynTalk

Is that you on stage? Is the table human? Is existence necessarily a part of (even, physical) reality? Is there only one thing (brahma)? Does poetry depict reality? How is literature different from paper? Are dance and music less reality bound? When does psychological realism begin? Is only the common (or the conventional) real? Are dreams real? Is something real only if it is either a cause or an effect? Are things dependently arisen? Could formalisms depict reality? Are n-branes things? What costumes do characters wear? How do we evoke something? Are we trapped in this saṃsāra? Does the ‘physical’ mean anything philosophically? Is it all empty at the end? Is vacuum emptiness? How is there action at a distance? Are all individuations illusory? How do theory, experiments, religious texts, & inter-subjectivity lead to reality? Are integer numbers real for crows? How do artists compete with the reality of camera? Why does Waiting for Godot need two characters? &, would you know what’s real if you were the only one left on Earth? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using ideas from theoretical physics (Prof. Debashis Ghoshal, JNU, New Delhi), philosophy (Dr. Justin P. Holder, Ashoka University, Delhi NCR) & theatre studies (Prof. Ananda Lal, ex Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Listen in…