{"id":8321,"date":"2019-10-01T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=8321"},"modified":"2025-02-18T20:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:12:36","slug":"what-is-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/event\/what-is-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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with<\/strong> Richard Baker Roshi, Valerie Hardcastle, Basil Hiley, Bernardo Kastrup, Gary Lachman, Iain McGilchrist, Roderick Main, Paavo Pylkk\u00e4nen and Beverley Zabriskie<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaired by Shantena Sabbadini<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 two-hour online sessions, one every Saturday and Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

June 5 – 27, 2021<\/strong>
9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consciousness is the primary and most immediate experience we all have. Before knowing our name or who we are, before being able to recognize any specific experience we are undergoing, the immediate realization that “I am” is always there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet this fundamental first person experience sits uneasily within the context of our scientific third person description of the world. No doubt consciousness has somehow to do with the brain, since physical or chemical changes in the brain affect the contents of consciousness. But the contents of consciousness, e.g. the experience of the color red, are qualitatively different from and irreducible to patterns of excitation in the brain. This irreducible difference has been dubbed “the hard problem of consciousness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has been dubbed \u2018the hard problem of consciousness\u2019 is much deeper than mere neurophysiology. It involves the sense we have of ourselves and our destiny, the issue of life after death and the distinction between animate and inanimate. What are the boundaries (if any) of consciousness? Is consciousness everywhere (as mystical traditions teach) or nowhere (as materialists claim)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each session will allow time for audience participation in the form of dialogue, discussion and Q&A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Program of Event<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Analytic Idealism <\/a>
<\/strong>with Bernardo Kastrup<\/span>
Saturday June 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Quantum Mechanics Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness?<\/strong>
<\/a>with Basil Hiley and Paavo Pylkk\u00e4nen<\/span><\/span>
Sunday June 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mundane and Mystical: A Panentheistic Perspective on C. G. Jung\u2019s Late Thoughts About Consciousness, Ego, and Self
<\/a><\/strong>with Roderick Main<\/span>
Saturday June 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emotion, Synchronicity and Surprise
<\/a><\/strong>with Beverley Zabriskie<\/span>
Sunday June 13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the Robot: Consciousness and Existentialism
<\/a><\/strong>with Gary Lachman<\/span>
Saturday June 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is the Neural Correlate of Consciousness?
<\/strong><\/a>with Valerie Gray Hardcastle<\/span>
Sunday June 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inner Science, Experiential Investigation, and Analysis of Consciousness
<\/a><\/strong>with Richard Baker Roshi<\/span>
Saturday June 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing Panel: What is Consciousness<\/a>
<\/a><\/strong>with Valerie Hardcastle, Gary Lachman, Roderick Main, Paavo Pylkkanen and Beverley Zabriskie<\/span>
Sunday June 27<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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