Newsome at TWU: Consciousness & Neuroscience
FREE PUBLIC EVENT: UBC Graduate & Faculty Christian Forum, ACTS Seminaries, the Institute for Christian Apologetics, and the CSCA present a lecture by Bill Newsome (Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine). Sponsored by Trinity Western University’s Faculties of Natural and Applied Sciences & of Humanities and Social Sciences. Note! Bill is giving a different talk at TWU later the same day, and also at UBC the following day. “Can subjective awareness (i.e. consciousness!) be satisfactorily accounted for by modern neuroscience?” For many neuroscientists, the cardinal long-term goal of our enterprise is to completely understand mental experience in terms of …
Newsome at TWU: Of Two Minds
FREE PUBLIC EVENT: UBC Graduate & Faculty Christian Forum, ACTS Seminaries, the Institute for Christian Apologetics, and the CSCA present a lecture by Bill Newsome (Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine). Sponsored by Trinity Western University’s Faculties of Natural and Applied Sciences & of Humanities and Social Sciences. Note! Bill is giving another talk on consciousness earlier in the day at TWU, and he will deliver this same “Of Two Minds” talk at UBC the following day. Of Two Minds: A Neuroscientist Balances Science and Faith The ‘central dogma’ of neuroscience is that all our behavior and mental life—including our …