What is mind or consciousness and how can it inform a philosophy of life?

Workshop # 2, What is Consciousness? Series 12, (S10,32)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.

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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.

THIS WEEK: The question ‘what is mind?’ has both a long and short history. Mankind originally understood himself in terms of spirit or soul. In the 17th century Descartes defined mind as a kind of ‘thinking substance’. Analytic philosophy rejected Descartes’ dualism and largely opted for physicalism. Yet other positions abound such as pluralism, externalism, panpsychism and functionalism. Phenomenologists, on the other hand, want to know about the character of mind and look for structures of consciousness, which also inform many philosophical positions such as on ethics, motivation, free will and value. Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 6, Scn. i.