Brain and Mind: Who is the Puppet and who the Puppeteer?
Schedule
Friday, December 17, 2021
19:00 UTC
George Paxinos
Prof
The University of New South Wales
Host: Sydney Systems Neuroscience and Complexity SNAC
Recording
Open recording
Event Information
Recording
Available
Host
Sydney Systems Neuroscience and Complexity SNAC
Duration
60 minutes
Abstract
If the mind controls the brain, then there is FREE WILL and its corollaries, dignity and responsibility. You are king in your skull-sized kingdom and the architect of your destiny. If, on the other hand, the brain controls the mind, an incendiary conclusion follows: There can be no FREE WILL, no praise, no punishment and no purgatory. There will be a presentation of the speaker’s novel which, inter alia, is concerned with this question: 21 year in the making this is the first presentation of A River Divided (environmental genre)
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