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Beliefs: Our Map of the World

  Beliefs constitute our lifeline to a vast and incoprehensible world. The human mind is a compulsive believer. Our web of beliefs reflects the complexity of the reality we are embedded in, even though they lack in credibility and accuracy to a large extent.  How are beliefs formed and revised?  Read the article here

Electromagnetic Theory and Optics

Electromagnetic theory provides the foundation for the science of optics. This article is an exhaustive review, taken from by book 'Basic Optics: Principles and Concepts', published by Elsevier in 2016.                                                   The full book is available here .                                                   Here is the TOC of the book   Click to read ' Electromagnetic Theory and optics '.

'Journal4': Post-poll violence in WB (in Bengali) পশ্চিমবঙ্গে ভোট-পরবর্তী সন্ত্রাস: তৃষিত এ মরু

In the backdrop of continuing political terror in WB, what can the political scenario be like in the near future?  Click here  to read

Complexity and Emergence (in Bengali) জটিলসত্তা ও উন্মেষ

This article (written in Bengali) is based on my ebook 'Complexity and Emergence' self-published at Google Books (https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Complexity_and_Emergence/NjYHEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 ). The table of contents of the book has been posted earlier in this blog. Click  here to read 'জটিলসত্তা ও উন্মেষ' 

'Journal3': Post-election(2024) stray thoughts

  [Written in a presumptuous spirit as in numerous other  posts in this blog.] Click here to read

A question of self-INTEREST !

  Your EMI payment on the loan that you took out last year makes, in all likelihood, a heavy dent on your monthly paycheck.... click to read

Complexity and Emergence (table of contents)

This monograph is self-published at Google Books (https://books.google.co.in/books?id=NjYHEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA132&dq=Avijit+Lahiri&hl=en&source=newbks_fb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Avijit%20Lahiri&f=false). Complexity and Emergence are two major topics of current interest. We look at complxity and emergence in the context of the Kantian noumenal-phenoenal divide. The noumenal reality is the repositiory of all the comlexity that there is, from which emerges the human mind and the phenomenal reality in a process of co-evolution.  Click here to read