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SUMMARY:What Is Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Click here to watch the recordings \n\n\n\n\n\nwith Richard Baker Roshi\, Valerie Hardcastle\, Basil Hiley\, Bernardo Kastrup\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkänen and Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\n8 two-hour online sessions\, one every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nJune 5 – 27\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nConsciousness is the primary and most immediate experience we all have. Before knowing our name or who we are\, before being able to recognize any specific experience we are undergoing\, the immediate realization that “I am” is always there. \n\n\n\nYet this fundamental first person experience sits uneasily within the context of our scientific third person description of the world. No doubt consciousness has somehow to do with the brain\, since physical or chemical changes in the brain affect the contents of consciousness. But the contents of consciousness\, e.g. the experience of the color red\, are qualitatively different from and irreducible to patterns of excitation in the brain. This irreducible difference has been dubbed “the hard problem of consciousness.” \n\n\n\nWhat has been dubbed ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ is much deeper than mere neurophysiology. It involves the sense we have of ourselves and our destiny\, the issue of life after death and the distinction between animate and inanimate. What are the boundaries (if any) of consciousness? Is consciousness everywhere (as mystical traditions teach) or nowhere (as materialists claim)? \n\n\n\nEach session will allow time for audience participation in the form of dialogue\, discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nAnalytic Idealism with Bernardo KastrupSaturday June 5 \n\n\n\nCan Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness?with Basil Hiley and Paavo PylkkänenSunday June 6 \n\n\n\nMundane and Mystical: A Panentheistic Perspective on C. G. Jung’s Late Thoughts About Consciousness\, Ego\, and Selfwith Roderick MainSaturday June 12 \n\n\n\nEmotion\, Synchronicity and Surprisewith Beverley ZabriskieSunday June 13 \n\n\n\nBeyond the Robot: Consciousness and Existentialismwith Gary LachmanSaturday June 19 \n\n\n\nWhat Is the Neural Correlate of Consciousness?with Valerie Gray HardcastleSunday June 20 \n\n\n\nThe Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousnesswith Richard Baker RoshiSaturday June 26 \n\n\n\nClosing Panel: What is Consciousnesswith Valerie Hardcastle\, Gary Lachman\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkanen and Beverley ZabriskieSunday June 27
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SUMMARY:What Is the Neural Correlate of Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpjYYDbEzEw\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Valerie Gray Hardcastle \n\n\n\nSunday June 209:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nAt first glance\, it seems that explaining what the “neural correlate of consciousness” (NCC) is should be straightforward: it is whatever that happens in our brains when we have a conscious experience that is lacking when we are not having a conscious experience. But this simple answer is misleading. It turns out that there might not be an NCC – even if we believe that consciousness is part of the material world and can be explained scientifically. \n\n\n\nThis presentation will discuss some of the complexities in understanding what exactly a conscious experience is\, as different groups (philosophers and physicians\, for example) describe it very differently. We will then look at the multitude of suggestions for the NCC and try to draw some conclusions about what the NCC could be based on these ideas. We will also explore the reasons some scholars believe that trying to identify the NCC is a fool’s errand and whether these reasons make sense from a scientific point of view.  Finally\, we will examine the “embodied cognition” movement can shed some light on these issues. \n\n\n\nSeeking the NCC presents a very simple vision for how to investigate and understand consciousness: isolate the thing inside the brain that is correlated with experience and you will have identified what consciousness is. I shall suggest that whatever story ends up being told about consciousness is going to be much more complicated.  We shall engage in a group discussion of whether seeking the neural correlates for consciousness is a productive approach for understanding our phenomenal experiences and what the outcomes of this search might bring. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nValerie Gray Hardcastle recently joined Northern Kentucky University as the St. Elizabeth Healthcare Executive Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and the Vice President for Health Innovation. An internationally recognized scholar\, Hardcastle is also the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Consciousness Studies and the author of five books and over 200 essays. She studies the nature and structure of interdisciplinary theories in cognitive science and has focused primarily on developing a philosophical framework for understanding conscious phenomena responsive to neuroscientific and psychological data.  Most recently\, she is investigating how the nature of addiction can shed light on what it means to be human. Hardcastle received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in cognitive science and philosophy from the University of California\, San Diego; a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Houston; and a bachelor’s degree with a double major in philosophy and political science from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
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