50 min
Brain and Mind: Who is the Puppet and who the Puppeteer?
Philosophy of Mind, Ethics and Neuroscience seminar by Prof George Paxinos, The University of New South Wales
Saturday 06:00–07:00 Sydney (GMT+11)
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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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