{"id":158,"date":"2013-09-11T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/?p=158"},"modified":"2013-09-11T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:52:56","slug":"the-quantum-and-the-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/2013\/09\/11\/the-quantum-and-the-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas worth quoting (3) &#8211; The Quantum and the Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reference to our perception of the world by our consciousness, Matthieu refers to a beautiful quote by famous physicist David Bohm (Taken from the book &#8216;The Quantum and the Lotus&#8221; by Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan,\u00a0p. 121):<\/p>\n<p>Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is\u00a0what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions.\u00a0What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look\u00a0for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what\u00a0we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What\u00a0we believe determines what we take to be true. What we take to\u00a0be true is our reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reference to our perception of the world by our consciousness, Matthieu refers to a beautiful quote by famous physicist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/2013\/09\/11\/the-quantum-and-the-lotus\/\" \" class=\"more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-worth-quoting","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studiolab.ide.tudelft.nl\/studiolab\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}