Place: 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
Speaker: Peter Sobol, Wisconsin Public Media
Abstract: The current interest in the nature of consciousness is only the latest episode in the long history of the Western world's efforts to understand awareness and intelligence. This talk will touch on the philosophical, medical, and religious problems that these efforts have encountered and will conclude with a survey of several different responses from contemporary philosophers and scientists to this still unanswered and perhaps unanswerable question.