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THE ELEVENTH HARVEY PREISLER MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM
Saturday, November 23, 2013
International House
500 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027
10:00 am: Welcome and Tribute to Harvey Preisler by Sheherzad Raza Preisler
10:15 am: Introduction of Dr. Dennett by Azra Raza
10:30 am: Dr. Daniel C. Dennett: “What can cognitive science tell us about free will?”
11:30 am: Q/A session moderated by Dr. Raza
Harvey David Preisler, M.D., Director of Rush Cancer Institute and the Samuel G. Taylor III Professor of Medicine at Rush University, Chicago, died on May 19th 2002. The cause of death was lymphoma. Dr. Preisler grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and trained in Medicine at New York Hospitals, Cornell Medical Center, and in Medical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. At the time of his death, he was the Principal Investigator of a ten million dollar grant from the National Cancer Institute in addition to several other large grants which funded his independent research laboratory with approximately 25 scientists. He was married to Azra Raza, M.D.
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Dennett: NOBODY is an "expert" in "free will vs determinism", no matter how fucking eminent & famous in their respective fields. Only whoever PROVES that free will exists/ does not exist should be admired on this question.
What a great speech. Yea for Daniel Dennett!
"indifferent envrionment"? Nope, as the lady said even neurons have vested interests. Bacteria can cheat each other in game theoretic ways. The environment is only indifferent as far as your intentions are not blocked by the interests of something else in the environment, such as a virus.
Marshallow kids who ate it soon are susceptible to crime and find it harder to be in the moral agents club because society has agreed, tacitly, to deny them membership. Funding goes towards rich corporations, war, and a fucked up health system while its diverted from those who actually need it to join the moral agents club or at least have a better chance.
Dennett speaks at 21:00
It's so sad… Such a deep and important topic, and all the questioners can talk about is their own petty hopes and fears.
The issue of Freewill is a purely grammatical problem.
Obviously you have a Will
& Obviously you are Free to do as you Will.
But your Will is not Free.
Your Will is Caused.
These Causes stretch back beyond your lifespan & your personal control.
of course you have free will…you have no choice but to have it
That first question is SO dumb. Wow.
21:00 when Dennett starts actually speaking.
What a genuinely delightful guy Dennett is.
Milligram experiments showed we do not have a free will as we want to believe. My dog can be good or bad in my eyes but he only understands this though reward or punishment. We are animals reacting to our environment not souls with moral choices as seems to be the message here. Does he believe people can choose a sexuality? Yes there are cost to living in a civilization but it is not to be confused with a view of the world that involves blame culture I don't believe as a community we can do any better than remove persons who wish to harm others and educate efforts towards our well-being. More than half of our prison system have been identified as people with a mental health issue. It is better to heal people than get some sort of meaningless feeling of revenge. Do people have a choice in being poor and black and ending up in a money making prison system? Heck it's a hangover from religion.
Determinism can not be demonstrated, it needs to know the future before stating what will happen. Free will is a belief, determinism also. Dennett, clairvoyance does not exist.
Like It…….
take a look at the Language of It…….
http://languageofit.blogspot.com/