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Impossible Minds: Ny Neurons, My Consciousness
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Introduction to Neural Computing by Igor Aleksander and Helen Morton

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Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature


What can science tell us about human nature?

Video of debate held as part of The Great Debate: Agents of Change?
Saturday, 25th October 2008

Speakers:
Bruce Charlton, author Psychiatry and the Human Condition
Igor Aleksander, author The World in My Mind, How to Build a Mind

Chair: Pauline Hadaway, Director, Belfast Exposed

Bruce Charlton opens with his thoughts on transhumanism and transcendentalism


Igor Aleksander reflects on the nature of consciousness and what science has to say on the question.


Pauline Hadaway asks the speakers to expand on their introductions


First round of questions and points from the floor


First round of speakers' responses


Second round of questions: Caspar Hewett & Kevin Yuill


Second round of questions continued


Second round of responses


The speakers explore the themes further


Third round of questions and points


Final responses from Bruce Charlton & Igor Aleksander

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Agents of Change? Darwinian Thought and Theories of Human Nature
Bruce Charlton
Igor Aleksander

Books by Bruce Charlton

Psychiatry and the Human Condition
The Modernization Imperative by Bruce Charlton and Peter Andras

Books by Igor Aleksander

The World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines
How To Build a Mind: Dreams and Diaries (Maps Of The Mind)
Impossible Minds: Ny Neurons, My Consciousness
Introduction to Neural Computing by Igor Aleksander and Helen Morton

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