Serious lectures, interviews and documentary videos selected by George Clark BSc (Hons), Cert Ed, MSc, MA
Major themes = philosophy (east and west), development theory, evolutionary biology, mind science and eastern modes of mind control
In no particular order as yet
Dangerous Knowledge (2007)David Malone (1) (2)
1:20:01 The BBC |
| David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig
Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly
affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them
all committing suicide. The film begins with Georg Cantor, the great mathematician whose work proved to be the foundation for much of the 20th-century mathematics. He believed he was God's messenger and was eventually driven insane trying to prove his theories of infinity. Ludwig Boltzmann's struggle to prove the existence of atoms and probability eventually drove him to suicide. Kurt Gödel, the introverted confidant of Einstein, proved that there would always be problems which were outside human logic. His life ended in a sanatorium where he starved himself to death. Finally, Alan Turing, the great Bletchley Park code breaker, father of computer science and homosexual, died trying to prove that some things are fundamentally unprovable. The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today. |
Enemies of Reason (2007)Richard Dawkins (1) (2)Part 1 - 47 minutes 54 seconds - Channel 4 Part 2 - 47 minutes Channel 4 |
| The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television
documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard
Dawkins.
From the makers: "Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give sound advice on how they should live their lives? What about sticking pins into your body to free the flow of Chi energy and cure your illness? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesn’t think so, and feels it is his duty to expose those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell. He will take on the world’s leading proponents in their field of expertise, meet the victims who have used them and expose the history of the movements – from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results." |
Freedom Next Time (2007)John Pilger (1) (2)43 minutes; 16 June 2007 |
| Australian journalist, author, film maker John Pilger speaks about global media consolidation, war by journalism, US military's quest for domination/hegemony in the post 9/11 era, false history in the guise of 'objective' journalism. Filmed in Chicago at Socialism 2007. |
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)John Pilger (1) (2)51 min 50 sec |
| This film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq and Washington,
looks at President Bush's 'war on terror' and the 'liberation' of
countries where bloodshed and repression continue.
In Afghanistan, Pilger investigates the claim that life has improved for the women of Iraq now that the Taliban have gone. In Washington, he interviews leading American officials, 'neo-cons' in the Bush regime. John Bolton, of the State Department, now the US Ambassador to the United Nations, says he regards the figure of 10,000 civilian deaths in Iraq as 'quite low'. |
The New rulers of The World (2001)John Pilger (1) (2)53min 11sec |
| John Pilger explores the impact of globalisation, taking Indonesia as his prime example, a country that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998. Under scrutiny are the increasingly powerful multinationals and the institutions that back them, notably the IMF and The World Bank. |
Flying the Flag (Arming the World) (1994)John Pilger (1) (2)50min 35sec |
| John Pilger and David Munro look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international arms dealing. |
War by Other Means (1992)John Pilger (1) (2)52min 17sec |
| John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet the crippling interest charges. |
Meaning of life TV - cosmic thinkers on cameraInterviews by Robert Wright (1) (2) |
| Robert Wright is an American journalist and
prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary
psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including Nonzero: The
Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their
Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is a visiting
scholar at The University of Pennsylvania and Schwartz Senior Fellow at
the New America Foundation. Bill Clinton reckoned that he was a genius. I found his interviews with the following cosmic thinkers to be particularly fascinating as I have read many of their works and it is good to put a personality to a book. ALSO: How cooperation (eventually) trumps conflictA TED Lecture Robert Wright explains “non-zero-sumness,” a game-theory term describing how players with linked fortunes tend to cooperate for mutual benefit. This dynamic has guided our biological and cultural evolution, he says -- but our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the “game.” Once we recognize that life is a non-zero-sum game, in which we all must cooperate to succeed, it will force us to see that moral progress — a move toward empathy — is our only hope. |
What Makes Us Human? (2006)Armand Leroi (1) (2)What Makes Us Human? (1. Big Heads) What Makes Us Human? (2. Copycats) |
| While our closest animal relatives have been swinging
from the trees, humans have built a world that is vastly more complex.
What are the defining features that have allowed us to do this? Are we
special, and separate from all other animals, or are we just an
especially successful mammal? A 2 x 60 minutes series. The successor to Human Mutants. An exploration of the difference between ourselves and our nearest relatives. Filmed in Pakistan, Tanzania, Switzerland, the UK and USA. Commissioned by Channel 4 (UK) and produced by TigerAspect (UK) the series is directed by Tim Lambert and written presented by Armand Marie Leroi. Transmission in the UK on C4 in August 2006. |
Margaret Mead and Samoa (1988)Frank Heimans51min 13sec |
| Presents evidence in the controversy generated among anthropologists by Derek Freeman's refutation of Margaret Mead's époque making book "Coming of age in Samoa". It appears that she got it seriously wrong! |
Watching Desmond Morris (2007)Colin Cameron BBC458min 48sec |
| Desmond Morris has been watching us for 40 years,
applying his skills as a zoologist to human beings as if they were just
another animal. Books such as The Naked Ape and Manwatching made him a
household name. Now it is time to turn the tables and ask him a few
questions.
With contributions from experts such as Richard Dawkins and Oliver James, and from Morris’s old friend David Attenborough, we ask how credible Morris’ observations, and the conclusions, really were and whether there is still anything to learn from studying humans in the way that he did. |
The Human Sexes (1997)Desmond Morris (1) (2)Desmond the evolutionary biologist continues man (and woman) watching in various parts of the world. Classic edutainment. Part 1 - different but equal Part 2 - the language of the sexes Part 3 - patterns of love Part 4 - passages of life Part 5 - the maternal dilemma Part 6 - the gender wars |
| "Woody Allen once directed and starred in a movie
provocatively titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
(but Were Afraid to Ask)." He was only kidding, but zoologist Desmond
Morris, in this six-hour video exploration of sexual mores and
behaviour, is serious--mostly. Morris careens around the world with his camera crew, peering into the sex lives of various cultures, imparting much scientific and sociological information, but, at the same time, displaying almost a prurient, lip-smacking satisfaction with his task. With abundant flesh filling the screen to keep viewers' interest, he delves into the differences between the sexes and how they evolved; courtship and body language; mating rituals and marriage; monogamy and polygamy; the maternal instinct; and the long-running battle between the sexes, historically and in today's contentious, politically correct world"... more |
Peace is every StepThich Nhat Hanh (1) (2)51min 54sec "Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand new hours to live." |
Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing (2007)Jon Kabat-Zinn (1) (2)Google Tech Talks - March 8, 2007 |
| Jon will describe the revolution in medicine that has
occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into
the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating
one's experience, reducing stress, healing the body, coping more
effectively with emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression, and
cultivating greater well-being and happiness.
His work has been instrumental in bringing Buddhist meditative practices, as he likes to say, "without the Buddhism" to full acceptance within the mainstream of medicine, psychology, and health care, and has shown them to be effective in people suffering from a wide range of medical disorders and diseases who have not been entirely helped by more traditional approaches. He will present data from several studies showing the effects of simple mindfulness practices on the brain and the immune system in employees in a high-stress work environment, and on rates of healing in medical patients. He will also speak about the growing conversation at the highest levels between science and ancient contemplative traditions, catalyzed in part by the Dalai Lama's interest in science, and how it is leading to new ways of exploring and understanding the nature of human experience and our potential to lead satisfying, happy, and healthy lives. |
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our SensesJon Kabat-Zinn (1) (2)57min UCTV |
| Renowned mindfulness meditation teacher and best-selling author Jon Kabat-Zinn speaks at UCSD Medical Center on the topic of "Coming to Our Senses", which is also the name of his new book, subtitled "Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness". A pioneer in the application of ancient Buddhist practices to healing in modern medical settings, Kabat-Zinn expounds upon the value of "resting in awareness" not only to facilitate clarity in ourselves, but also as a means of relating to and healing the "dis-ease" in politics, society and the world. Series: Health Sciences Journal [Health and Medicine] |
Making Globalization WorkJoseph Stiglitz (1) (2)1hr 5min - World Affairs Council |
| Joseph Stiglitz’s new book, Making Globalization Work, is an imaginative and, above all, practical vision for a successful and equitable world. In clear language and compelling anecdotes, Stiglitz focuses on policies that truly work, offering fresh new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure a global financial system made unstable by America’s debt, ideas for how countries can grow without degrading the environment, a framework for free and fair global trade, and much more. Stiglitz reveals that economic globalization continues to outpace both the political structures and the moral sensitivity required to ensure a just and sustainable world. And he makes plain the real work that all nations must undertake to realize that goal. |
Authors@Google: Joseph Stiglitz (2006)42 Minutes |
| Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz speaks about his book, "Making Globalization Work." This event took place on October 13, 2006, at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series. |
The Century of the Self (2002)Adam Curtis (1) (2)part 1 - Happiness Machines part 2 - The Engineering of Consent part 3 - There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be
Destroyed part 4 - Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering |
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to
try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam
CurtisNotes from WikipediaSigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings profoundly. His influence on the 20th century is widely regarded as massive. The documentary describes the impact of Freud's theories on the perception of the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this during the last 100 years for their "engineering of consent". Among the main characters are Freud himself and his nephew Edward Bernays, who was the first to use psychological techniques in advertising. He is often seen as the "father of the public relations industry". Freud's daughter Anna Freud, a pioneer of child psychology, is mentioned in the second part, as well as Wilhelm Reich, one of the main opponents of Freud's theories. Along these general themes, The Century of the Self asks deeper questions about the roots and methods of modern consumerism, representative democracy and its implications. It also questions the modern way we see ourselves, the attitude to fashion and superficiality. Notes from the BBC - includes an episode guide |
The Power of Nightmares - the Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004)Adam Curtis (1) (2)Part 1: Baby it's Cold Outside Part 2: The Phantom Victory Part 3: The Shadows in the Cave |
Notes at the BBCIn the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. Notes at wikipediaThe Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives. Detailed summary of argument |
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)Adam Curtis (1) (2)Part 1 "F**k You Buddy" Part 2 "The Lonely Robot" Part 3 "We Will Force You To Be Free" |
Notes at WikipediaThe series consists of three, one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom Notes at BBCPoliticians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom. |
Maps of Meaning (2004)Jordan B Peterson (1)Maps of Meaning Intro: There's No Such Thing as a DragonThis one hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2002, as part of
the University of Toronto's Continuing Education Program. It is a
lecture about a children's book, "There's no Such Thing as a Dragon", by
Jack Kent. The book, which is written for very young children, has a
very deep mythological theme, which this lecture describes. The following half hour videos were broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004. They make up a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. They are based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. More details about that book can be found at www.mapsofmeaning.com |
1: Monsters of Our Own Making
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Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences (2006)B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D (1) (2) (3)1hr - Google engEDU |
| B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. has been a scholar and
practitioner of Buddhism since 1970. He is currently seeking ways to
integrate Buddhist contemplative practices and Western science to
advance the study of the mind. He is the founder and president of the
Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (
http://sbinstitute.com
). ABSTRACT Galileo took a seminal role in launching the first revolution in the physical sciences, and a key element in this revolution was the rigorous, sophisticated observation of physical phenomena. Darwin likewise launched a revolution in the life sciences on the basis of decades of meticulous observation of biological phenomena. Although scientists have been studying the mind for more than a century, no comparable revolution has taken place in the mind sciences, and the missing element that may account for this delayed revolution is the absence of rigorous, precise observations of mental phenomena. By integrating the third-person methodologies of the cognitive sciences with the first-person methods for examining the mind that have been developed in Buddhism and other contemplative traditions, our present generation may bring about the first revolution in the mind sciences. |
Human all too human (1999)Friedrich Nietzsche (1) (2)49 mins BBC |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August
25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of
religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using
a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's
influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in
existentialism and postmodernism. Nietzsche began his career as a philologist before turning to philosophy. At the age of 24 he became Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems, which would plague him for most of his life. In 1889 he exhibited symptoms of a serious mental illness, living out his remaining years in the care of his mother and sister until his death in 1900. |
Philosophy: A Guide to HappinessAlain De Botton (1) (2)24 min episodes |
| 1: Socrates on Self-Confidence http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2808374571100926940 Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they truly believe? Partly because they are too easily swayed by other people's opinions and partly because they don't know when to have confidence in their own. 2: Epicurus on Happiness 3: Seneca on Anger 4: Montaigne on Self-Esteem 5: Schopenhauer on Love 6: Nietzsche on Hardship |
Direct Understanding and the Attainment of Buddhahood (1998)Pierre Grimes PhD (1) (2) (3)1hr |
| Want to be inquisitive? This is an exploration into thought. Thoughts play themselves out as a drama. They each have images with their own attitude, manner and style. Your mind is trying to remind you of what you most need to understand. Just direct your understanding to what is going on. By doing so, we can verify that we live in a caring and intelligible universe. References are made to The Collected Works of Chinul - The Korean Approach to Zen |
World Bank Development Policy: 50 Years of Failure (2006?)Dr. Benjamin Powell (1)1 hr 10 min 34 sec - 20 Nov 2006 |
| Dr. Benjamin Powell, Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation at the Independent Institute and assistant professor of Economics at San Jose State University, discusses the last 50 years of development policy at the World Bank. Five global blueprints and their shortcomings. |
Hegemony of Common SenseInterview of Dean Manders (1)58 mins- June 21, 2007 |
| "Labor On The Job" interview with author and professor Dean Manders about his book, Hegemony of Common Sense. Deals with Gramsci and the problematic aspects of equality, democracy and common sense in the struggle between the aristocracy, business interests and the ordinary people. |
Google Documentary46 min 57 sec - 19 Jul 2006 |
| A look inside Google, The Machine |
Authors@Google: Daniel Goleman (1) (2)56 min |
| Daniel Goleman discusses his book "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships" as a part of the Authors@Google series. For more from Daniel Goleman, visit http://www.morethansound.net . This event took place on August 3, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. |
Change your Mind Change your Brain: The Inner Conditions for Authentic HappinessMatthieu Ricard (1) (2) (3)Google engEDU. 59 min 28 sec |
| If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external
conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Ricard will
examine the inner and outer factors that increase or diminish our sense
of well-being, dissect the underlying mechanisms of happiness, and lead
us to a way of looking at the mind itself based on his book, Happiness:
A Guide to Life's Most Important Skill and from the research in
neuroscience on the effect of mind-training on the brain. Speaker Bio: Matthieu Ricard, a gifted scientist turned Buddhist monk, is a best selling author, translator, and photographer. He has lived and studied in the Himalayas for the last 35 years where he currently works on humanitarian projects. He is an active participant in the current scientific research on meditation and the brain. Other video talk at TED in 2004 - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/191 |
Daniel Dennet on Memetics - at TED |
The Protestant RevolutionTristram Hunt (1)BBC 4, Sept 2007 - More ... Four-part documentary series in which historian Tristram Hunt explores the scientific, cultural, economic and political aspects of Protestantism. |
Part 1: The Politics of Belief (59 Minutes)http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3804718987651172007 In the series opener, historian Tristram Hunt uncovers how a debate about religion in 16th-century Germany sparked a political revolution. From the bloody battlefields of medieval Germany, to the civil wars of the 1640s in Britain, Protestantism unleashed a series of revolutions and wars that rippled across Europe. And the reverberations of the Reformation continue to this day. The programme explores how the role of Protestantism has influenced the current conflict in the Middle East and the foreign policy of George W Bush. Protestantism inspired a new way of thinking; a challenge to authority that has crossed centuries and continents. Martin Luther's challenge to the Pope in the 16th century inspired conservatives and radicals alike, and its history is one of conflict, challenge and rebellion – from the early religious radicals in Germany, to the founding of the British Labour Party and the Civil Rights movement in Fifties America. The Protestant Revolution unravels how a breakaway form of Christianity has come to shape the political landscape of the modern world. Part 2: The Godly Family (59 Minutes)http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-1470266014220992013 The Protestant Revolution transformed people's experiences of sex, love, family life and the relationship between men and women. In the second episode, Tristram uncovers how Protestantism replaced the Catholic veneration of celibacy with a devotion to family life. The programme shows how Luther became the loving husband and father, and how the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury gave us our modern idea of marriage. The programme traces the contradictory legacy of Protestantism – on the one hand sexual equality, while, on the other, virulent patriarchy. Viewers meet the austere Puritan preacher who met his soul mate, and the programme also investigates radical, free-loving 17th-century sects as well as discovering how straight-laced Victorian mothers became the sexually liberated women of today. In gay and lesbian churches, and in conservative Christian communities today, we can see the continuing impact of Protestantism. Gay bishops, gay marriages and abortions dominate debate, and now, ironically, threaten the world's largest Protestant communion, the Anglican Church. Part 3: A Reformation of the Mind (59 Minutes)http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-439856437001382026 Tristram explores how Protestantism has come to shape modern western art, literature and science, in the penultimate episode of Protestant Revolution. In 16th-century Britain, radical Protestants triggered one of the greatest acts of vandalism in British history, wiping out Catholic monasteries, churches and artwork. But the cultural revolution inspired by this religious movement went far further than the shattered statues of 16th-century Britain. The legacy of the Protestant Revolution lies unseen around us. Tristram follows a trail that leads from the monasteries of Catholic England to modern art galleries and explores how Protestantism lay at the heart of one of our greatest art forms – the novel. Tristram also uncovers how a Protestant culture of inquiry and discovery drove on a new scientific age that spanned from the discovery of gravity to the Industrial Revolution. And now, as new scientific frontiers are broken, Tristram reveals how religion lies at the heart of some of our most significant scientific discoveries. In the process, he discovers how Protestantism has helped to create the modern secular world. Part 4: No Rest for the Wicked (59 Minutes)http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8477831376519661961 Capitalism and an increasingly active anti-global movement are two of the most powerful forces on the planet, and Tristram reveals how both phenomena developed out of Protestantism, in the final episode of The Protestant Revolution. The journey begins with Jean Calvin who, desperate for a sign of God's favour, found it in the world of work and money. Tristram explores how Puritans, anxious to worship God at every opportunity, introduced the world of the ticking clock and shaped the architecture of the working week. Puritans on both sides of the Atlantic developed modern work and business practices, and provided the intellectual and financial impetus to launch the Industrial Revolution. The push for profit could go too far, however. The sugar plantations of the Caribbean divided the Protestant church, giving rise to an anti-capitalist voice that campaigned first against slavery and then against the excesses of factory labour. Today, capitalism is triumphant, but the anti-capitalist movement is also gathering force, and the two great opposing legacies of Protestantism continue to battle it out. |
Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia (1) (2)A TED talk - Jul 2005 - 25 minutes |
| Jimmy Wales assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating, and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished encyclopedia of the future. Here, he explains how the collaborative approach works, and why it succeeds. Along the way, he debunks some controversies, explains the "neutral point-of-view policy" and why it is non-debatable; and details the Wikipedia governance model: a democracy with a bit of aristocracy and some monarchy thrown in. |
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisisby Bill Moyers (1987) (1) (2)1 hr 26 min 29 sec |
| This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's
1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the
Executive Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations
which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American
people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated
by the
National Security Act of 1947.
The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is their own doing. |
Beyond Belief - Enlightenment 2.0The Salk Institute
- an amazing collection of cutting edge brains - the New Atheists(?) http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief2/ Agenda and list of participants http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief2/agenda/ |
As you watch the conversation in Beyond Belief:
Enlightenment 2.0, it might help to know about one of the sources that
was helpful to me in formulating the agenda, assembling the cast of
characters, and setting the tone for the meeting. I quoted this passage
from Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan
Glover (who directs the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's
College, London):
I say Amen to that. If Enlightenment 1.0 took a thin and mechanical view of human nature and psychology, I think Enlightenment 2.0 can offer a much 'thicker' and cognitively richer account - less naïve and also, perhaps, less hubristic. If there's one thing we've learned - particularly from cognitive neuroscience - it is that we need to have some strategic humility about the hobby horses we are inclined to ride. -Roger Bingham - Director, The Science Network * Wednesday, October 31: Session 1 of 2 (2hr48min)
Darrin McMahon 05:20-24:08 * Wednesday, October 31: Session 2 of 2 (4hr14mins) * Thursday, November 1: Session 1 of 2 (4hr4mins) * Thursday, November 1: Session 2 of 2 (3hr44mins) * Friday, November 2: Session 1 of 1 (4hr3mins) |