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When Science Meets Soul | Portland News
In this moving episode, poet Stuart Kestenbaum explores the tension between science and soul in his poem “Free Will.” His physicist nephew dismisses free will as an illusion — a chain reaction of cause and effect — but Kestenbaum counters with visceral, sensory memories: sea air, blue chicory, the yearning felt while painting houses. These moments, he argues, point to something deeper — a belonging, a song, a cycle that science can’t explain but our hearts feel. A meditation on meaning beyond mechanics, it’s a call to cherish those ineffable connections that make us feel part of something…
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