"Neuroscience and the Nature of Man" Lecture March 11, 2010

For our first meeting in March, Phoenix Objectivists will listen to a pre-recorded lecture by Atlas Society trustee Walter Donway on "Neuroscience and the Nature of Man" which was part of The Atlas Society's Symposium on Cognitive Science at their 2006 Summer Seminar.

Walter Donway also started the journal "Cerebrum: The Dana Forum on Brain Science" and edited it for eight years.

Ayn Rand attacked contemporary theories of psychology, political philosophy, and sociology for their premise that human nature, especially man’s mind, was “infinitely elastic.”

Now, discoveries in neuroscience are showing that the mind has inherent characteristics in areas ranging from temperament to intelligence, from sexual psychology to learning, and from career preferences to reaction to artworks.

Does brain science’s emerging view of man differ from Objectivism’s basic views or shade our interpretation of them?

The lecture will last about 70 minutes. After it's conclusion, we will discuss the points brought up in it.

**NOTE** Attendees to this meeting must buy something to eat or drink.

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