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A contribution by Matthias Rang
In this lecture, Matthias Rang examines the order of the twelve senses according to Rudolf Steiner. Starting from the dichotomy of the human constitution, he asks to what extent our senses convey truth. Drawing on experiments with coloured shadows, he shows that it is our judgement that deceives us, not the senses. Subjective perceptual achievements such as colour constancy prove to be objective, mathematising activities.
A contribution by Matthias Rang to the mathematical study conference in October 2025 at the Goetheanum.
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Publication: 3 July 2026
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Matthias RangMatthias Rang, born in 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied physics and physics education in Freiburg and Berlin and received his PhD from the University of Wuppertal in 2015 on phenomenological approaches to complementary spectra. He has been a researcher at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum since 2007 and co-leader of the Natural Science Section since 2020. His research focuses on complementary phenomena in optics and the relationship between Goethe's theory of colour and Newton's optics.
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