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Mind-Body Connections: How Does Consciousness Shape the Brain? United Nations 9/11/2008



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The United Nations, New York – September 11, 2008
Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness

“Mind-Body Connections: How Does Consciousness Shape the Brain?”
A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Elie During and featuring Dr. Mario Beauregard, Dr. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Dr. Henry P. Stapp and
Dr. Esther M. Sternberg.

The mind-body problem has traditionally been framed as a conundrum concerning the relation between two seemingly incompatible substances—corporeal and spiritual. Indeed, the elusive nature of consciousness itself certainly does not render it a good candidate for reduction to a physical basis. Noting that physical theories alone would be compatible with the absence of consciousness, popular philosophical arguments have long highlighted the fact that an adequate theory of consciousness requires more than mere brain physics can provide. In short, there is something more to our minds than meets the eye in brain imagery.

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19 thoughts on “Mind-Body Connections: How Does Consciousness Shape the Brain? United Nations 9/11/2008
  1. My problem with all this is it doesn't first address the problem of man's inhumanity to man. It's putting the cart before the horse IMO.

  2. 2 months ago I purchased the book of Sternberg titled "The balance Within: The Science connecting health and emotions"
    and the book of Shwartz "The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force"

    I really hope that every medical student can have the time to read these two great books.

  3. Crick and Edelman reduced neuroscience to a strictly biological study of the brain. Consciousness as Observer collapsing the quantum wave function of the brain had to wait until first Crick and this year Edelman died before a new generation of scientists could dismantle the cobwebs of institutionalized myopia and intellectual inertia.

  4. No they can't. It's simply that the more complex things get and the more complex our understanding….. the more room there is for quackery and nonsense to infiltrate. Deepak Chopra is the very essence of abusing quantum notation and concepts to appeal to the ignorant and make them feel warm inside…. appeal to their desire for eternal life and universal healing, blah blah blah.

  5. Philosophers have been failing for at least 26 centuries to contribute anything useful and significant to our knowledge of the mind.

  6. this had the potential to be really really interesting and useful but it flopped a bit for me, not enough in-depth theoretical discussion.

  7. Both materialism and dualism are wrong.There is no mind. Nothing to be "connected" to the body. Who said that should be one? And why?

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