{"id":6305,"date":"2025-09-05T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2026-11-04T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T16:18:39","slug":"third-circle-talk-2025-with-paul-plener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/news\/third-circle-talk-2025-with-paul-plener\/","title":{"rendered":"Third CIRCLE Talk 2025 with Paul PLENER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How reliable are memories? To what extent does our perception shape what we consider to be the truth? And what does that mean for us as lawyers in our day-to-day professional lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We explored these fascinating questions on the evening of September 5, 2025, as part of our CIRCLE Talk on the topic <strong class=\"\">\u201cHow True Is Reality?\u201d<\/strong>. Dr. Paul Plener, Professor of Medicine and Director of the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Medical University of Vienna, impressively demonstrated why truth is never simply black and white\u2014but rather a complex interplay of memory, context, and subjective experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Topics discussed included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the limits of human memory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the implications for lawyers\u2019 day-to-day professional practice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>scientific findings on the search for truth and the reconstruction of lived experiences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key takeaway from the evening: <strong class=\"\">There is no single, uniform perception of reality.<\/strong> Every person processes sensory impressions differently\u2014influenced by personal experiences, expectations, and emotions. What we perceive as \u201creality\u201d is therefore never absolute, but merely a <strong class=\"\">highly probable version<\/strong> of what happened. Objective truth ultimately remains unattainable\u2014in part because our brains learn only through errors and contradictions. Thus, we can never fully share our realities with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This insight has far-reaching significance, particularly in everyday legal practice: When statements are based on memories, we must always be aware that they, too, are merely approximations of a truth that every person experiences\u2014and remembers\u2014differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"\">Our Key Takeaway:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em class=\"\">Our brain constructs reality\u2014never objectively, always subjectively. Insight arises when we acknowledge these limitations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A heartfelt <strong class=\"\">thank you to Paul Plener<\/strong> for his fascinating insights\u2014and to our guests, who enriched the evening with their keen interest, questions, and engaged discussion. The <strong class=\"\">CIRCLE Talk<\/strong> made it clear that exploring memory and perception is not only scientifically fascinating but can also be crucial to our work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review: Truth, Perception, and Reality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamkindl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}