But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.

One of the characteristics of early modern thought was a tendency to assume binary contrasts. In an attempt to define phenomena more exactly, categories of experience that had once co-inhered were now set off against each other: faith and reason, intellect and emotion, and church and state.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

Written By Dan Brown

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