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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:Analytic Idealism
DESCRIPTION:Analytic Idealism \n\n\n\nwith Bernardo Kastrup \n\n\n\nSaturday June 5\, 20219:00 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\nTwo widespread current notions of consciousness are physicalism\, i.e. the perspective that assumes physical reality\, matter\, as fundamental\, and bottom-up panpsychism\, i.e. the perspective that takes everything as possessing mind or consciousness and higher levels of consciousness consisting of a combination of more elementary levels. Bernardo Kastrup will argue for an idealist (consciousness only) ontology consistent with empirical observations\, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism\, in that it does not fall prey to either the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ (the challenge of deducing consciousness from matter) or the ‘subject combination problem\,’ (the challenge of deducing higher levels of consciousness from lower levels). It can be summarized as follows: spatially unbound consciousness is posited to be the only ontological reality\, the ultimate nature of everything. We\, as well as all other living organisms\, are dissociated alters of this unbound consciousness\, similarly to what happens in multiple personality disorders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism\, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a PhD in philosophy (ontology\, philosophy of mind) and a second PhD in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing\, artificial intelligence). As a scientist\, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the ‘Casimir Effect‘ of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books\, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American\, the Institute of Art and Ideas\, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think\, among others. Bernardo’s most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information\, freely downloadable papers\, videos\, etc.\, please visit www.bernardokastrup.com. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:Can Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCan Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness? \n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday June 6\, 20219:00 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\nThe hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why physical processes give rise to consciousness. Regardless of many attempts to solve the problem\, there is still no commonly agreed solution. It is thus very likely that some radically new ideas are required if we are to make any progress. In this presentation we turn to quantum theory to find out whether it has anything to offer in our attempts to understand the place of mind and conscious experience in nature. In particular we will be focusing on the ontological interpretation of quantum theory proposed by Bohm and Hiley and its further development by Hiley and its philosophical interpretation by Pylkkanen. \n\n\n\nThe ontological interpretation makes the radical proposal that quantum reality includes a new type of potential energy which contains active information. This proposal\, if correct\, constitutes a major change in our notion of matter. We are used to having in physics only mechanical concepts\, such as position\, momentum and force. Our intuition that it is not possible to understand how and why physical processes can give rise to consciousness is partly the result of our assuming that physical processes (including neurophysiological processes) are always mechanical. If\, however\, we are willing to change our view of physical reality by allowing non-mechanical\, organic and holistic concepts such as active information to play a fundamental role\, this\, we argue\, makes it possible to understand the relationship between physical and mental processes in a new way. It might even be a step toward solving the hard problem. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Basil Hiley\, collaborator and colleague of David Bohm for over 30 years \n\n\n\nBasil J. Hiley is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London. He received the Majorana Prize ‘Best Person in Physics’ in 2012. A long-time co-worker of David Bohm\, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on the implicate order and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras. Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm\, which is considered the main reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nThe work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question ‘whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system\, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature’ and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order. \n\n\n\nIn 1961 Hiley was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College\, where Bohm had taken the chair of Theoretical Physics shortly before. Hiley wanted to investigate how physics could be based on a notion of process\, and he found that David Bohm held similar ideas. He reports that during the seminars he held together with Roger Penrose he was particularly fascinated by John Wheeler’s ‘sum over three geometries’ ideas that he was using to quantize gravity. \n\n\n\nHiley worked with David Bohm for many years on fundamental problems of theoretical physics. Initially Bohm’s model of 1952 did not feature in their discussions; this changed when Hiley asked himself whether the ‘Einstein-Schrödinger equation\,’ as Wheeler called it\, might be found by studying the full implications of that model. They worked together closely for three decades. Together they wrote many publications\, including the book The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory\, published 1993\, which is now considered the major reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n In 1995\, Basil Hiley was appointed to the chair in physics at Birkbeck College at the University of London. He was awarded the 2012 Majorana Prize in the category The Best Person in Physics for the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics and furthermore in recognition of ‘his paramount importance as natural philosopher\, his critical and open minded attitude towards the role of science in contemporary culture.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, Philosopher of Mind\, Helsinki University\, Finland \n\n\n\nPaavo is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Program. \n\n\n\nHis main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. The central problem in philosophy of mind is how to understand the place of mind—and especially conscious experience—in the physical world. Pylkkänen has explored whether this problem can be approached in a new way in the framework of the new holistic and dynamic worldview that is emerging from quantum theory and relativity. He has in particular been inspired by the physicists David Bohm and Basil Hiley’s interpretation of quantum theory and has collaborated with both of them. \n\n\n\nIn his 2007 book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that Bohmian notions such as active information and implicate order provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness. The overall aim of his research is to develop a scientific metaphysics. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and is a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/can-quantum-mechanics-solve-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Mundane and Mystical: A Panentheistic Perspective on C. G. Jung’s Late Thoughts About Consciousness\, Ego\, and Self
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCz8qju52Is\n\n\n\n\n\nMundane and Mystical: A Panentheistic Perspective on C. G. Jung’s Late Thoughts About Consciousness\, Ego\, and Self \n\n\n\nwith Roderick Main \n\n\n\nSaturday June 12\, 20219:00 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\nC. G. Jung insisted that there could be no consciousness without an ego\, and accordingly he expressed scepticism about the desirability and even the possibility of experiencing pure consciousness or egoless awareness—a view seemingly at odds with worldwide mystical experience as well as much Asian philosophy. In his presentation Roderick will re-examine Jung’s position on this issue in light of Jung’s own mystical experiences in 1944\, some late developments in his thinking about the relationship between the ego and the self\, and the case for his being viewed as an implicit panentheist. He will argue that Jung’s  thought can provide a much richer and more socially relevant account of mystical experience\, including of the experience of egoless awareness\, than is often supposed and than some of his own comments might lead one to expect. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoderick Main holds a BA and MA in Classics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Religious Studies from Lancaster University.  He now works at the University of Essex\, where he is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies.  His books include Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal (1997); The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture (2004); Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (2007); Myth\, Literature\, and the Unconscious (2013); Holism: Possibilities and Problems (2020); and Jung\, Deleuze\, and the Problematic Whole (2021). \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
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SUMMARY:Emotion\, Synchronicity and Surprise
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WKbNa4nVf8\n\n\n\n\n\nEmotion\, Synchronicity and Surprise \n\n\n\nwith Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nSunday June 13\, 20219:00 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\nIn Psyche and Matter\, the Jungian analyst Marie Louise von Franz notes: \n\n\n\n\nLike Wolfgang Paul’s “statistical laws with primary probabilities\,” archetypes are also “a list of expectation values or ‘primary probability’ for certain psychological (including mental) reactions.” Referring to physicist David Bohm’s grid\, “the archetypes can be understood as dynamic\, unobservable structures\, specimens of the implicate order. If\, on the other hand\, an archetype manifests as an archetypal dream image\, it has unfolded and become more ‘explicated’.” (p. 252) \n\n\n\n\nJung spoke of synchronicity as an archetypal pattern. What allows an archetype to unfold\, and a synchronous experiences to be explicated as a synchronicity? \n\n\n\nIn the post-Cartesian era\, tough minded neuroscientists ignored the seemingly tenderminded themes of emotion and imagination. Since the  1990’s there has been  dedicated pursuit of the role of emotion in cognition and imagination\, leading to an intersection with Carl Jung’s seminal concepts of the affective basis of the psyche\, the psyche’s role in emotional equilibrium\,  the notion of emotion as fuel for imagination\, perceivable in archetypal images and narratives.. We have moved from what one researcher describes as a movement from  “I think therefore I am\,”\, to “I feel \, therefore I think\, I think.” \n\n\n\nThis discussion will engage the intrinsic role  of emotion and the agency of imagination as catalysts of unfolding\, as  intensities in the imprinting  of mind and psyche\, body and  brain. The necessity of surprise as a basic survival emotion\, and a crucial component of psychic process will be highlighted. \n\n\n\nWe will hear implicit and explicit resonances between Jung’s tenets and four contemporary theorists’ relevance to our understanding of  inter-relatedness\, on the continuum of emotion\, synchronicity and surprise.: \n\n\n\n\nJaak Panskepp’s affective neuroscience’s observation that “the evolutionary layering of the brain\, the raw affective substrates of mind have a more ancient evolutionary history than our sense of cognitive awareness (Panksepp\, 1998).\n\n\n\nJoseph Le Doux’s The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains\n\n\n\nAntonio Damasio’s model of convergence and divergence.\n\n\n\nRodolo Llinas notions of endogenous images\, and the human brain as akin to a musical instrument with sympathetic chords.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeverley Zabriskie\, LCSW\, is a Jungian analyst in New York City\, and a founding faculty member and past president of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA). Ms Zabriskie is a past vice president of the Philemon Foundation\, dedicated to publishing the unpublished works of C.G. Jung\, and a past president of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She is on the Executive Committee of the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation\, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Analytical Psychology\, London and the San Francisco Jung Journal: Psyche and Culture. She presented the 2007 Fay Lecture ‘Transformation Through Emotion: From Myth to Neuroscience.’ Her many lectures and publications include ‘A Meeting of Rare Minds\,’ the Preface to Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Correspondence (2001); ‘When Psyche Meets Soma: The Question of Incarnation’ in About a Body (2006); ‘Time and Tao in Synchronicity’ in the Jung-Pauli Conjecture and Its Impact Today (2014); ‘Energy and Emotion: C.G. Jung’s Fordham Declaration’ in Jung in the Academy and Beyond: The Fordham Lectures 100 Years Later; and ‘Psychic Energy and Synchronicity’ Journal of Analytical Psychology (2014). A recent publication is ‘Spectrums of Emotion’ in Research in Analytical Psychology\, Vol. l. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/emotion-synchronicity-and-surprise/
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SUMMARY:The Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12raflNx6g\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Ancestors—the Tree of Life and Intergenerational Patterning \n\n\n\nwith Melanie Rein \n\n\n\nWednesday June 16  9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nOnline Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThis talk will focus on the unconscious patterns which run through families and generations of families\, as one generation inherits\, responds and reacts to the complexes and archetypal energies of the previous generation—and even of the generation before that—parents\, grandparents and in some cases\, great-grandparents. Drawing on mythology and other cultural experiences\, the presenter will explore the symbolic nature of the genogram\, or psychological genealogy tree\, and its connection to the Tree of Life as a visual image for eliciting\, revealing and deepening insights into family and ancestral patterning. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday June 16\, Melanie will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84239833716 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelanie Rein PhD.\, is a Jungian analyst and supervisor with a practice in Cambridge\, UK. She is a senior member of the Guild of Analytical Psychologists\, London\, where she originally trained\, and of the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists. Many moons ago\, Melanie worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker\, using family therapy in her work with children and families. Later\, following her PhD.\, and as a social scientist\, she directed a number of British Government and EU projects in Central and Eastern Europe\, as well working on a collaborative research project with colleagues in Zambia and Kwa Zulu Natal\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nImage Above:Israhel van MeckenemOrnament with the Tree of Jesse\, 1480–90With kind permission of The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
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SUMMARY:Epistemic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Epistemic Justice \n\n\n\nReflections on Past\, Present and Future – from an African Perspective With Dr. Baba Buntu (PhD) \n\n\n\nJune: Cognitive \n\n\n\nWednesday June 16\, 23 and 30 – 1 hour sessions10:00 am PDT  |  1:00 pm EDT  |  6:00 pm BST  |  7:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nThis seminar-series is a presentation of reflections on justice\, liberation and transformation. It is a fragmented story\, inspired by the presenter’s tri-continental life-journey\, interpreted through a trans-disciplinary lens and motivated by finding strategies for change through epistemic disobedience. \n\n\n\nRooted in African worldviews\, each session will explore aspects of history that has had a devastating impact on human development. Literary references will be used as navigation points in order to interrogate complex problems and stimulate philosophical introspection. \n\n\n\nMore than providing the answers\, the seminar-series will seek to disrupt common thinking and encourage a transdisciplinary approach to transformation. Realizing that our views of the world have been greatly impacted by exclusion and silencing\, the series is an attempt to speak the unspoken and envision the righteous. \n\n\n\nThe seminar-series will be scheduled along 12 key-concepts\, structured through four dimensions: Physical\, cognitive\, social and metaphysical. 3 sessions will be held each month of May\, June\, July and August at 7:00 CEST of 1 hour. \n\n\n\nJune: Cognitive\n\n\n\nJune 16 – Violence: What is the script of violence\, beyond physical aggression?June 23 – Economy: How do we manage a world where “to have” is a privilege?June 30 – Leadership: Is there a universal script for how to lead? \n\n\n\nWhat people have said….\n\n\n\n\nThis program is -in my eyes- an absolute prerequisite for everyone aspiring to bring change in the world\, for everyone who claims to believe in change\, equality and justice. You cannot not listen to Baba Buntu’s work on (in)justice. Julie Arts \n\n\n\nUsing evocative questions and images\, engaging around both the mind and lived experience\, Dr. Buntu opens the potential for understanding at a deep and enduring level.  Sharon Landes \n\n\n\nDr. Baba Buntu strikes the perfect balance between personal experience and in-depth academic research in this eye-opening series. This course should be mandatory for people of all colours to become aware and hopefully start to fight the inherent systemic injustices both in our daily lives and at a larger scale. Rose Vervenne \n\n\n\n\nFollowing months…..\n\n\n\nJuly: SocialJuly 14 – Family: Who is the teacher of familyhood?July 21 – Youth: Why do we hate youth so much?July 28 – Gender: Is gender a concept of violence? \n\n\n\nAugust: MetaphysicalAugust 11 – Spirit: Who defines truth beyond the physical world?August 18 – Unity: What are the mechanics of reuniting a fragmented world?August 25 – Balance: Whose responsibility is it to restore what was broken? \n\n\n\nPrevious month…..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay: The PhysicalMay 12 – Skin: How did appearance become punishable?May 19 – Presence: What does it mean to exist in this world?May 26 – Representation: Who can represent who\, and why? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Baba Amani Olúbánjọ Buntu is a Community/Activist Scholar with more than 30 years of experience in conceptualizing and implementing programs on social development\, innovative entrepreneurship\, youth empowerment and indigenous knowledge – particularly suited for Afrikan applicability. He has background from Anguilla\, grew up in Norway and has lived in South Afrika since the 90’s. \n\n\n\nIn Norway he founded Afrikan Youth In Norway (AYIN)\, started Norway’s first Afrikan-centered retail shop\, Afrikan Excellence\, and co-founded Afrikan History Week (AHW). He is the Founder and Co-Director of eBukhosini Solutions\, a community based company in Johannesburg\, focusing on Afrikan-Centered education and decolonial transformation. He holds a Doctoral and a Master Degree in Philosophy of Education from University of South Africa and has also studied social work\, group therapy and political science. As a Pan-Afrikan educator\, writer\, mentor and practitioner\, with broad experience from work in Afrika\, the Caribbean and Europe.  \n\n\n\nThe Image Above: MMRA KRADO belongs to the family of Adinkra conceptual symbols created by the Bono and Akan civilizations\, in today’s Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. \n\n\n\nIn the literal sense\, mmra means law while krado means padlock. Together they can be translated to mean the seal of the law. This symbol represents justice and authority. When there is a desire for law and order\, citizens must resolve to be law abiding for a peaceful and harmonious community.
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Robot: Consciousness and Existentialism
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQUirJ5y98\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Gary Lachman \n\n\n\nSaturday June 199:00 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\nLachman will base his presentation on the work of Colin Wilson and his ‘new existentialism\,’ a phenomenological analysis of the habits that keep us from experiencing consciousness as we should (that would be more along the lines of Maslow’s ‘peak experience’)\, the ‘dampers’ we unconsciously place over our perceptions that can lead to depression\, angst\, and existential despair. This ‘muffling’ of experience is the result of a necessary editing process\, that allows us to maneuver through life successfully. But it does its work too well\, reducing the complexity of the world to a drab pasteboard surface with which we can easily deal\, but which leaves us with no idea of why we should… Wilson’s phenomenological approach uncovers the unconscious ‘de-valuing’ at work in our perception of the world and the mental acts that can reduce the unconscious editing\, so that more of the world—and its inherent meaning—can enter consciousness. We can say that he developed insights that can lead consciousness from Sartre’s ‘nausea’ to mystical experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary Lachman is the author of many books about consciousness\, culture\, and the Western esoteric tradition\, including The Return of Holy Russia\,  Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump\, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination\, and Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson. He writes for several journals in the US\, UK\, and Europe\, lectures around the world and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In a former life he was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full time writer\, Lachman studied philosophy\, managed a metaphysical book shop\, taught English literature\, and was Science Writer for UCLA. He is an adjunct professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He can be reached at www.garylachman.co.uk\,www.facebook.com/GVLachman/  and twitter.com/GaryLachman \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here\n\n\n\nGeneral Information  \n\n\n\nAll sessions will last for approximately 2 hours\, and will be held over zoom.us. The session structure may vary from speaker to speaker\, but in general participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenter and in some cases there will be breakaway discussion groups. \n\n\n\n Each session will be hosted by a member of the Pari Center Team\, to ensure that the call is running smoothly and assist anyone experiencing technical problems.  \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be recorded. The recordings will not include the possible breakout-room discussions\, but only the speaker’s presentation\, follow-up discussions and Q&A. If a participant does not feel comfortable being recorded\, we invite that participant to turn off their video and audio throughout the session. These recordings are available to anyone who has purchased a ticket for an attended session\, or for a session they have paid for but were unable to attend.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-robot-consciousness-and-existentialism/
LOCATION:Online
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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
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/what-is-the-neural-correlate-of-consciousness/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210626T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210626T200000
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SUMMARY:The Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1Gv_2NN70\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Inner Science\, Experiential Investigation\, and Analysis of Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Richard Baker Roshi \n\n\n\nSaturday June 269:00 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\nTo practice Zen means to observe the fact and process of knowing. Consciousness is the most visible face of our mutualized knowing\, a knowing through others and within the proximal spectrum of phenomenality. To closely and dispassionately observe the activity and functioning of consciousness\, it is necessary\, additionally\, to actualize a transformational ‘awareness-observing-consciousness.’ This is a shift in kind: a shift from a self- referencing\, comparative consciousness to a non-self- referencing\, non-comparative awareness. This ‘non-self-referencing\, non-comparative awareness\,’ allows us to attentionally notice and study\, to deconstruct and reconstruct\, the perceptual and organizational processes of consciousness. This process of deconstructing and reconstructing consciousness is called the Teaching of the Five Skandhas. The five attentional categories for the analysis of consciousness are: ‘Form\,’ ‘Non-Graspable-Feelings\,’ ‘Perception\,’ ‘Associative Consciousness\,’ and ‘Consciousness.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZentatsu Richard Baker is the Founder and Head Teacher of the Dharma Sangha Centers in the United States and Europe. In the United States he lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado; and in Germany\, at the Zen Buddhist Center Schwarzwald in the Black Forest. He has been teaching Zen-Buddhism for 45 years.  \n\n\n\nBaker Roshi is the Dharma Successor of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (author of the book Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind).  In 1966\, with and for Suzuki Roshi\, he co-founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California. \n\n\n\nBaker Roshi subsequently founded the Green Gulch Zen Practice Community and Farm in Marin County\, California in 1972. During the ’70s\, he pioneered a number of businesses related to Zen practice. In 1983\, he founded the Dharma Sangha. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-inner-science-experiential-investigation-and-analysis-of-consciousness/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20210627T180000
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SUMMARY:Closing Panel: What is Consciousness?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOg8shXLAqM\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Panel: What is Consciousness? \n\n\n\nwith Valerie Gray Hardcastle\, Gary Lachman\, Roderick Main\, Paavo Pylkkanen and Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nSunday June 279:00 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\nWe are sorry to announce that Iain McGilchrist is indisposed and will be unable to give what was to be the final presentation in our ‘What Is Consciousness?’ series. Iain is rescheduling his talk for September\, and we will be notifying everyone once we have confirmed the date. In its place we have gathered together a number of our presenters for a final panel. \n\n\n\nWe have now reached the end of our ‘What is Consciousness?’ event. We have explored the many aspects of the topic through the eyes of scholars some of whom had opposing viewpoints but all of whom were both compelling and enlightening. We are pleased that so many of them have agreed to take part in a final panel to explore and deepen some of the themes that have emerged in the presentations. \n\n\n\nWe will begin with the panelists responding to prepared questions on such topics as the relationship of matter and consciousness\, how quantum mechanics might shed light on the ‘block universe’ conceptualization\, and how patterns of activation of the human brain during cognitive performancemight shed light on consciousness. \n\n\n\nThis will be followed by a Q&A session open to everyone. Make sure you have your questions and comments ready. \n\n\n\nTo see the full What is Consciousness Series and list of speakers click here
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/closing-panel-what-is-consciousness/
LOCATION:Online
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