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SUMMARY:The Science of Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:Perspectives from Physics\, Ecology\, Psychology\, and Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday\, John Briggs\, Chamkaur Ghag\, Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Àlex Gómez-Marín\, Roger Nelson and Robert Toth \n\n\n\nCurated by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nNovember 4 – 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \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\nAcross the broad span of wisdom traditions\, one encounter is of key significance: some direct access or contact with the ground of being. \n\n\n\nEven in this secular age\, dominated as we are by the materialistic\, reductionist paradigm of western science\, these transcendent experiences still occur\, even amongst members of the scientific community. \n\n\n\nWhile this experience is always inexpressible in detail\, it commonly involves an overwhelming feeling of wholeness\, a blurring of the line between subject and object\, a melting away of divisions and an immersion in a state of participatory  consciousness. \n\n\n\nIf the underlying ground of reality is an inexpressible whole\, beyond aspects and distinctions\, we might expect some echo of this to emerge in our scientific investigations. David Bohm certainly had this intuition\, which coloured his approach to quantum theory especially and science and philosophy more generally. \n\n\n\nIn this series of workshops\, we will investigate the extent to which modern science has encountered aspects of wholeness\, non-local consciousness and the subject-object distinction. We will also consider what a post-reductionist science might look like\, drawing on the experiences of indigenous cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday November 4Does Quantum Theory Reveal an Underlying Wholeness to Reality?with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday November 5Global Consciousness: Manifesting Meaningful Structure in Random Datawith Roger Nelson \n\n\n\nSunday November 12Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)with Àlex Gómez-Marin \n\n\n\nSaturday November 18Holocentric Indigenous Consciousnesswith Tiokasin Ghosthorse\, Robert Toth and John Briggs \n\n\n\nSunday November 19Universe as Processwith Chamkaur Ghag
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SUMMARY:Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter)
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Science of Wholeness 4/6: Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter) with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExtending the Mind (and Intending Matter) \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nSunday November 12\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nMost neuroscientists are convinced that minds live in skull confinement — after all\, their metaphysical gospel (cloaked in brain scans) insists that minds are “nothing but” what brains do. Some occasionally let their minds stroll within the body\, acknowledging the importance of heart and gut\, while maintaining the brain as organ king. A few conservative radicals go further and claim that minds can also protract into the world\, much like the blind’s cane or everyone’s phone. Such an “extended mind” is seriously meant but often so rather metaphorically as a heterodox way to lessen the duality by spreading “mind” like butter in the bread of “matter”. I wonder if that’s sufficient\, or even necessary. We are still struggling with Descartes’ forced divorce between “res cogitans” and “res extensa”; extended stuff can’t think and thinking stuff can’t enjoy extension. I will argue for a possible dissolution/absolution of the problem and flesh such theoretical considerations with ongoing empirical work on the putative ability of living organisms for non-sensory perception and non-motor action\, stepping deep into heretical neuro-land. I will also discuss conceptual implications for the ever-failing quest to locate memories in the brain. Regardless of one’s preferred “-ism”\, we must heal such an ontological wound at the heart of science and of civilization. You can indeed separate the whole into parts (split a football\, dissect a dog)\, but you cannot do so without it changing in kind (the game is over\, the dog is dead). At the end of the day\, we need to think\, feel\, and practice a science of wholeness beyond New Age “woo-woo” and Old Rage “poo-poo”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full The Science of Wholeness Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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