50 min
Seminar, Hosted by Sydney Systems Neuroscience and Complexity SNAC
Brain and Mind: Who is the Puppet and who the Puppeteer?
Prof George Paxinos
The University of New South Wales
- Philosophy of Mind, Ethics and
Recording
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)