Theories of Everything with Vernon Neppe

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年5月23日
Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist and head of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle. He is author, with physicist Edward Close, of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works. He is also author of Déjà Vu Revisited, Déjà Vu: A Second Look, Déjà Vu: Glossary and Library, Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope, and Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy. His professional publications number over 700. Dr Neppe has amplified many of his concepts in two of the websites linked with his work. On www.Brainvoyage.com, his books are amplified. www.VernonNeppe.org is his gateway and includes more information on the Neppe-Close model of the Triadic Distinction Vortical Paradigm.
Here, Dr. Neppe describes his criteria for a theory that can explain consciousness in terms of modern science. He challenges the skeptical, or naturalist, position that the a priori probability of psychic phenomena is close to zero. Instead, he maintains that a true theory of everything must include what parapsychologists call psi. He also claims that theories of consciousness must include the infinite. He draws upon infinity as a way of resolving the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Friedrich Gödel. He also differentiates between feasibility and falsification regarding theories of everything.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on April 17, 2016)

In Our Time: The Great War at 100, Session 2 | Mahindra Humanities Center

source: Harvard University    2015年2月23日
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
In Our Time: The Great War at 100
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Michael Hardt On 'Common Wealth' (1-10)

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source: Eidos84    2010年10月23日
What are the prospects for social and political transformation in the age of Empire, and the possibilities of creating alternatives within and beyond contemporary power configurations? Author Michael Hardt discusses the political challenges of today, in relation to the book "Common Wealth" (co-authored with Antonio Negri).

George Berkeley - The Great Idealist (BBC In Our Time)

source: Philosophical Overdose    2015年11月22日
George Berkeley was an Anglican bishop who was one of the most important philosophers of the eighteenth century. He was an empiricist who believed that all ideas and knowledge must ultimately be based on our own sense experience, and that objects themselves are nothing but mere collections of qualities or ideas that exist in the mind, a view called immaterialism or idealism. His interests and writing ranged widely, from the science of optics to religion and the medicinal benefits of tar water. His work on the nature of perception and knowledge was a spur to many later thinkers, including David Hume and Immanuel Kant. The clarity of Berkeley's writing, and his ability to pose a profound problem in an easily understood form, has made him one of the most admired early modern thinkers.

Berkeley's subjective idealism seems crazy, but many took him to have a point. Insofar as we only have direct access to our own inner mental representations (e.g. perceptions, ideas, experiences), how could we possibly ever know, or even meaningfully speak or think about, an independent external world? As Berkeley pointed out, an idea can only resemble and represent another idea. So even if there was some underlying material substance behind the appearances, causing sensory impressions within us, we have no way of getting at such. For, we only ever encounter our own inner mental representations and can never step outside to compare such representations with some external mind-independent reality beyond.
Melvyn Bragg discusses the work of George Berkeley with Peter Millican, Tom Stoneham, and Michela Massimi. This is from the BBC radio program In Our Time.

Beyond Boundaries: Roundtable Discussion

source: Yale University    2016年7月11日
The first annual Yale STEAM Symposium featured presentations by faculty and staff on the benefits and challenges of digital methods and collaborations for research and teaching.
Rebekah Ahrendt, Department of Music: “On Letters, ‘Discovery,’ and Collaboration”
Anikó Bezur, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Technical Studies Lab
Ian McClure, Yale University Art Gallery and IPCH Conservation Lab: “Making the Invisible
Visible: How Science Advances Research in Art History and Beyond”
Amy Hungerford, Director, Division of the Humanities; English, American Studies:
“Reading, Machines, and the Humanities”
Holly Rushmeier, Computer Science: “Computer Graphic”
Moderators: Chanthia Ma, Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology (MCDB), Undergraduate
Student • Gideon Fink Shapiro, Digital Humanities Lab, Postdoctoral Associate

Does God Mix with Science?

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source: Closer To Truth     2016年8月8日
Clearly, religion must speak with science: if religion claims to be an approach to the entirety of existence, then it must embed the discoveries and insights of science. Religion, at its own risk, ignores science.
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Robert B. Laughlin - Does God Mix with Science? 6:08
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Breaking Male Rules | Rebecca Asher

source: The RSA    2016年8月23日
Breaking Male Rules with author Rebecca Asher. What does it mean to be a man today? There is a growing public awareness of the need to counter the negative stereotypes that have traditionally limited girls and women, but less is being done to question the accepted rules of masculinity. Rebecca Asher and our panel explore where these problems come from, and what can be done to address them.
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