‘Self awareness’ has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the mental process of being aware of oneself being aware. Is...
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Everyone knows it’s important to think ahead—but just how far do you need to go? Some say we should be looking up to 1,000 years into the next millennium, at what...
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Did art and religion co-evolve in parallel as archaeology and anthropology suggest, and if so, what would be the significance? What do art and religion have in common that...
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Panpsychism is the extreme claim that everything in the physical world—all subatomic particles-are in some sense ‘conscious’ or have a basic kind of...
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How can consciousness be addressed scientifically? The Tucson conference, founded in 1994 and celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2014, exemplifies the quest. What are the...
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What does it mean to be a “self”? Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don’t look the...
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What can music reveal about how the mind works? How does cognitive science study the human capacity for, and experience of, music? How to tease apart the elements of music:...
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What’s the relationship between language and consciousness? Which comes first? Does consciousness enable language? Or does language give rise to consciousness? What...
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Creativity forms something from nothing, but innovation shapes that something into practical products and services. Today’s panelists discuss the connection between...
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Creativity generates art. How to discern the creative process in order to inform the nature of art? Conversely, how to discern art in order to inform the nature of the...
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