Neuroscience and Metaphysics: The Hard Questions June 1, 2012

The relationship between neuroscience and metaphysics is a complex and intriguing one. It highlights questions about the mind and the brain, memory and identity, freewill and determinism, happiness and pleasure, neural correlates of consciousness, the emotions, desire and fulfilment, ethics and morality, as well as the relation, if any, between quantum theory and neural mechanisms. In this fully illustrated day we will examine carefully some of these questions in order to see whether or not there are some questions which are 'too hard' to be answered, now or later. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/course/nmhq for more information or to register.

Official Website: http://www.cce.usyd.edu.au/course/nmhq