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ABOUT THIS SITE and ABOUT ME

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This blog is entitled 'TacitKnowledge', recalling the work of the great scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is planned as a platform for much that we perceive but don't always share, fearing that our views are too vague to be of value. Here I will take you to a tour of books and articles written by me, over the years and on various topics. One major area covered will be theoretical physics, while broader domains will also be explored -- touching upon philosophy, psychology, and the contemporary social-political scenario too. In most of these I will be clearly writing without regard to my competence and qualification because that is what this site is meant to be -- a platform for our tacitly held views.  You will find my CV here  if you feel like getting to know more about my background.    
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Creativity: Avalanche in the Sand-pile

This book is a revised and enlarged version of an earlier essay ‘Understanding Creativity: Affect Decision and Inference’, self-published by me in December, 2021, and available at PhilArchive  . How the human mind engages in a creative act, involving a restructuring of the conceptual space. As the conceptual space is taken to a tipping point, a cascading process starts, analogous to an avalanche in a slowly growing sand-pile.  Click here to read the book
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The Idea of Truth

Truth is no simple thing. Men have staked their life for truth, and many will doubtless do so again and again in the future, but still there is no general agreement among thinkers on what truth really is. Is truth absolute or is it relative? Do we discover it in a mind-independent reality, or do we construct it in our mind? Why do people concur on scientific findings but endlessly confront one another on simple matters of fact in our social life?     Even as the idea of truth is almost ethereally elusive, the pursuit of truth is, strangely and remarkably, of great relevance in life.     Click here to read.  
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The Connected Mind: From the Neuronal to the Social Synapse (Table of Contents)

This monograph attempts at understanding how the mind emerges in a process of self-organized complexity involving a number of interacting complex systems, among which we focus principally on the hierarchy of neuronal networks in the brain. At the same time, it looks at the complex structural and functional organization of the mind, in which the vast social web of interacting minds plays a pivotal role. [self-published at www.researchgate.net, DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.13140/RG.2.2.21497.43367 ]    Click here for Table of Contents 
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Jagadish Chandra Bose. জগদীশচন্দ্র : ভারতীয় বিজ্ঞানের অতৃপ্ত আত্মা

This article, written in Bengali, was first published in 2009, and has been published on two more occasions with minor alterations. An attempt to understand the great pioneer of Indian science whose path was thorny and full of twists........    Click here to read  
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The Critical Brain: Does the Mind operate at the Edge of Chaos?

  What exactly does it mean to say that the mind operates at the edge of chaos?......   Click here to read  
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(Introspection on election results, 2026 May; in Bengali) নির্বাচনী ফল (2026)

  A personal perception of what the assembly election results of May, 2026, tells us....    Click here to read 
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