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SUMMARY:Incredible Minds
DESCRIPTION:Incredible Minds: Exploring Actual\, Virtual\, and Possible Minds Across Living Matter \n\n\n\nwith Paco Calvo\, Lars Chittka\, Audrey Dussutour\, Michael Levin\, Julia Mossbridge\, Matthew Segall \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nApril 22 – May 7\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDo plants have feelings? How blind are we to their own internal experiences? Perhaps they offer an untapped opportunity to reconsider how we understand ourselves. What about bees? Do we appreciate their unique cognitive abilities\, both as a group and as individuals? Their brains may grant them a kind of consciousness akin\, or not\, to ours. And\, what about cells? How does bioelectricity contribute to their collective problem-solving? Given the evolution of their multiscale competencies\, one can marvel at the relentless manifestation of such accomplishments throughout development\, every time a batch of chemicals becomes a metacognitive human. Let us also ask whether synthetic life forms could have minds\, or whether they only behave as if they did. Can we tell? How do slime molds\, a sister group to fungi and animals\, live and thrive in worlds as complex as our own. We can use such creatures to learn to think critically and better understand science itself. What\, if anything\, is then uniquely human about our minds? Does our desire for improvement hinder the very possibility of self-transcendence? Here’s a challenge: to continue learning about us and the world while loving everything as it is. Is the cosmos really a fluke accident sprinkled with improbable biological organisms with epiphenomenal minds? It is ironic that some conscious intelligences (mainly academics) insist on explaining themselves away. An alternative cosmology\, and no less scientifically compatible\, can root mind and life in cosmogenesis from the very beginning. Thus\, at the end of the day\, all such alien minds living in all such alien worlds may be more natural\, and even more incredible\, than we are led to believe. Join us to explore and enjoy them all. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday April 22Planta Sapiens: The Incredible Minds of Plantswith Dr. Paco Calvo \n\n\n\nSunday April 23The Mind of a Beewith Dr. Lars Chittka \n\n\n\nSaturday April 29The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis: What Bioelectricity Outside the Brain Means for Understanding our Multiscale Naturewith Dr. Michael Levin \n\n\n\nSunday April 30Human Thinking and Human Beingwith Dr. Julia Mossbridge \n\n\n\nSaturday May 6The Use of Slime Molds in Promoting Science for and by the Peoplewith Dr. Audrey Dussutour \n\n\n\nSunday May 7Mind and Life in the Cosmoswith Dr. Matthew David Segall
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