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How can we understand neuroscience, and its power to explain how we perceive, feel, forget, imagine, hope, plan, and do? Can it help us to know who we are, why we behave & misbehave, and how we can improve any area of behavior? Can it help us understand the people in our lives?

The expansive field of Neuroscience can give us insights & understanding, and further our goals of "Understanding Us". We earlier explored several introductory topics using the focusing lens of neuroscience. Our earlier discussions were intentionally general. For us to delve into more challenging topics requires us to understand the "language" of neuroscience, to learn a few basic but essential core tenets, and learn to think in specific ways about our brain.

This talk will try to formulate a basic level of literacy and essential knowledge that we each need, especially non-scientists, to make the many research findings from this field more understandable. This talk is a step on our journey to understanding Us.

Format:
Presentation by Sanjay
Two rounds of breakout groups
Takeaways

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

The first, introductory, event from "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwTy6pGkNA

The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

To see all forthcoming "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" events, look at the Wednesday events on the "52 Living Ideas" calendar: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere http://y2u.be/ixgxwR29_WY

52 Living Ideas records Comprehensivist Wednesdays events and posts them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch all their past Meetups at: https://www.youtube.com/c/52LivingIdeas?sub_confirmation=1

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