Mind Through the Looking Glass
A RADICAL SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS Live videoconference with Christian de Quincey, Ph.D. Austin Center for Spiritual Living, 5555 N Lamar Blvd, Bldg D #115 Tuesday, September 17, 2013, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. CDT Co-hosted by INACS and IONS Austin Free and open to public; $5 donation appreciated Please note that this event will NOT be available on the Web For centuries, science has successfully explored the universe of matter from the tinest quantum to the largest galactic clusters, all the way back to the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago and out to the edge of the visible cosmos. Now, the final—and greatest—frontier for science is consciousness itself. In recent decades, neuroscience has made stunning advances in our understanding of the brain and how it correlates with many aspects of mind. And each year it seems poised to make even greater discoveries. However, revealing the secrets of the brain is not the same as exploring consciousness. What, then, would it take for science to explore the mind per se, and not just its neural correlates? In this presentation, philosopher Christian de Quincey examines the four major worldviews that
