Friday, January 13, 2012

Sorry I missed the lecture in Colaba

Hi Students - so sorry I did not make it as many Grade X 12 students turned up in Room 9 for help with their final TOK presentations and essays. I could not say no to them. They were eager for advice and I did not finish with them until 6pm. So sorry as I wanted to enjoy the experience of the lecture with you all. Please post here and let me know if it was good. Thanks.

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  1. Anmol BhansaliJanuary 14, 2012 at 2:38 AM

    The lecture was extremely interesting. It was well structured to fit both the needs of dozens of young students like us and experienced neuro physicists in the auditorium.
    Dr. Blackmore started her talk by explaining the difference between the inner and the outer world. She referenced the significant lack of research that has taken place in this "inner world", containing the mind body and spirit in relation to the research conducted on the general outer world of our bodies.
    She showed the audience a variety of ways in which our vision has deluded us. She explained how everything we see can be divided into 2 basic categories - the information that our brain does process and hence the information that judges our consciousness, and the information that we see, or experience but is not processed by our brain, hence creating an unconscious state of mind.
    Dr. Blackmore also explained the "Hard Problem". This was one of the most interesting parts of the talk, apart from the videos proving to the audience that it itself is not conscious. The Hard Problem is one which addressed the non physical aspects of the human brain in which our consciousness is present.
    Here is the link to the Wiki Page on the Hard Problem and some of the content that Dr. Blackmore referred to during her talk
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voAntzB7EwE

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