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Event: Raymond Tallis – The Francis Bacon Lecture, 29 February 2012.

From the announcement [Royal Institute of Philosophy] – Neuromania is based on the incorrect notion that human consciousness is identical with activity in the brain, that people are their brains, and that societies are best understood as collections of brains. While the brain is a necessary condition of every aspect of human consciousness, it is not a sufficient condition – which is why neuroscience, and the materialist philosophy upon which it is based, fails to capture the human person. Since the brain is an evolved organism, Neuromania leads to Darwinitis, the assumption that, since Darwin demonstrated the biological origins of the organism Homo sapiens, we should look to evolutionary theory to understand what we are now; that our biological roots explain our cultural leaves. In fact, we belong to a community of minds that has developed over the hundreds of thousands of years since we parted company from other primates.

Details: Wednesday 29 February 2012 at 18.30; de Havilland Campus University of Hertfordshire.

Booking info here: http://www.herts.ac.uk/events/The-Francis-Bacon-Lecture-2012.cfm

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