On the Origin of Consciousness
30 April
Now the week-long conference, Toward a Science of Consciousness
in Tucson Arizona is over and there is a lot to digest from all
seminars, meetings and discussions. The impressions after this 20th
-anniversary project ( 1994-2014 ) was that the actual agenda dominates
of physics and not consciousness.
26 April
I really wanted to listen to Sam Parnia this last day and hoped to get the latest news about the eventual results of the Aware study. Because of its design I believed it has limited chanses of getting any results at all. (These doubts are widely spread)
26 April
This friday was a range of synchronicity that changed my path. I stumbled upon Magdalena who is doing a documentary and I told
her that I also was filmmaker. She asked me about the background and
interest in consciousness. She immediately asked me to do a short interview (supposedly
half an hour). This took two and a half hours ...
25 April
The main subject of TSC seems to me to be perception and brain. And then perhaps still the Quantum field. I think though that track might has come to an end.
24 April
Deepak Chopra showed up at the poster session and gave me the
opportunity to tell how I perceived the final discussion of today’s
seminar on Subjectivity and Objectivity.
And to my satisfaction he totally agreed upon both my theory on the
poster and analysis of the discussion that i mentioned on the latest blog article here.24 April
23 April
Stuart Hameroff introduced the speakers starting with David Chalmers
first giving a historical summery of what has happened the last 20
years. And also bringing up different views, pros and cons about The
“Hard Problem” .
Second speaker Daniel Dennet representing not only a hard materialist but also the Four Horsemen of New Atheists opened with a statement that he had the only usefull statement. What is the “Hard Question” and postulating that this conference haven´t reached anywhere during this 20 years.
Second speaker Daniel Dennet representing not only a hard materialist but also the Four Horsemen of New Atheists opened with a statement that he had the only usefull statement. What is the “Hard Question” and postulating that this conference haven´t reached anywhere during this 20 years.
22 April
The first day was actual preconferens with a number of workshops and
random meetings. I present them in this gallery. We started in morning
with Nondual Awareness and the Unity of Consciousness:MEDVETANDETS UPPKOMST
30 April
Så är då den veckolånga konferensen -Toward a Science of
Consciousness- i Tucson Arizona över och det är mycket att smälta från
alla seminarier, möten och diskussioner. Intrycken efter detta
20-årsjubilerande projekt (1994-2014) blev att själva agendan backat ner
i neurologernas statistikstudier.
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