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DVD Lecture Series/ "Consciousness And Its Implications"

Nov 11
Wed 7:00 PM
Location
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark

420 Willa Road
Newark, DE 19711
(302) 654-8698

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 3  people attended.

Who organized?
Dave Martin

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$2.00 per person
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"Consciousness and Its Implications", instructed by Professor Daniel N. Robinson of Oxford University, is a 12 part lecture series that'll be presented by the Delaware Association for Humanism in cooperation with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark (UUFN) on the second Wednesdays of each month November through April. The first two lectures will be presented at 7 p.m. on November 11th at UUFN's campus 420 Willa Road Newark, De. 19711. The lectures will be followed by a 60-90 minute discussion of a given lecture's topic. A synopsis of the lectures:

Lecture One: Zombies
In this course, we will attempt to unravel the nature of conscious, its provenance and its function. We begin with the concept of the zombie, which functions as a physical entity without consciousness. The question of ethics is raised if we consider that entities without consciousness cannot be judged for their actions. Could such an entity strive for moral improvement? The subject of consciousness is vast and varied and, as a philosophical problem, far from an easy solution.
Lecture Two: Self-Consciousness
In this lecture, we consider the propostion that conscious life is grounded in the real essense of mind and, as such, is somehow insulated from the changes that might otherwise be brought about by "mere matter in motion". If the constituents of our own bodies continuously change, can we still retain the idenifible "self"? We again turn to British empiricist John Locke (1632-1704) for his contribution to the issue. (as an aside, Locke was very instrumental in his influence on the thinking of our Founding Fathers)

A donation ($2.) is asked of all lectures' attendees in helping to defray costs.

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    • “ The first lecture on "Zombies" was pretty easy going. The second on "Self Consciousness" was heavier going. A similarity I noted with the first lecturer is that this one also lays out the issues and concepts from a historical basis and doesn't nail down any conclusions of his own. They both seemed to be presenting competing ideas forcing the hearers to try to weight the arguments for themselves. It is a broad topic and there have been many attempts to define it beginning with Hobbes and Locke, Henry James, up to the modern philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists. The point was also raised that so far there has been no attempt to include the experiences of eastern thought regarding consciousness. I think overall it was a promising start. To the other attendees, please add your thoughts about the evening. ”

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