Science, Mind, Religion, and Reality is a great video by Oxford professor Kieth Ward.
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SCIENCE, MIND, RELIGION AND REALITY
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shadowhawk
, Aug 06 2013 11:33 PM
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Posted 06 August 2013 - 11:33 PM
Science, Mind, Religion, and Reality is a great video by Oxford professor Kieth Ward.
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 09:02 AM
Thank you for sharing. Very nice video, good to see, as in the old good tradition, philosophy helping formulating the right questions for science. Much of the talk goes around the huge problem of consciousnesses whose resolution will likely require good philosophy and physics to converge. Read also Penrose on that.
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Posted 11 August 2013 - 12:03 PM
As additional and related food for thought, this additional Keith Ward's talk (on Kant) ...
.. makes me thinking that, while much of today's effort (and funding) is toward understanding how mind emerges from brain, good philosophy again might help asking the equally right question of how mind takes the appearance of brain. Similarly, I always asked myself the question how say electrons take the appearance of spots in a double slits experiments while the reality, which is intrinsically quantum in nature, looks like being the mathematical concept of a wave function probability ...
.. makes me thinking that, while much of today's effort (and funding) is toward understanding how mind emerges from brain, good philosophy again might help asking the equally right question of how mind takes the appearance of brain. Similarly, I always asked myself the question how say electrons take the appearance of spots in a double slits experiments while the reality, which is intrinsically quantum in nature, looks like being the mathematical concept of a wave function probability ...
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