The Adventure Of Consciousness

Bridging Science, Consciousness Studies, Philosophy and Spirituality with a Post-Material Synthesis of Knowledge

What you'll learn

How modern neuroscientific findings suggest there is more than physicality.

Aspects of the contemporary philosophy of mind and consciousness studies.

Aspects of philosophical idealism.

Aspects of mysticism.

See Nature, reality, but especially ourselves, from a comprehensive scientific and intuitive perspective.

Requirements

No intellectual prerequisite needed. You need, however, to keep on going until the end to get the overall picture.

Take notes, step by step and get into the subject more intuitively than analytically.

Intuitive first-person perception.

Description

A philosophical, scientific, and spiritual overview of the relationship between science, consciousness studies, the mind, the mystery of consciousness, neuroscience, philosophy, spirituality, the nature of reality, evolution, and life.A course for the scientific- and philosophical-minded who would like to expand their intellectual and intuitive horizon beyond the straitjacket of materialism. For those who feel there is something more, but struggle with connecting the dots into a more coherent picture supported by a way of seeing that allows us to overcome the present paradigm and yet maintains a scientific and conceptual rigor, without falling into oversimplifications. A critique of physicalism, the still-dominant doctrine that believes that all reality can be reduced to matter and the laws of physics alone. A review and reassessment of the old and new philosophical and metaphysical ideas which attempts to bring closer Western and Eastern traditions where science, philosophy, consciousness, Spirit, and Nature are united in a grand vision that transcends the limited conventional scientific and philosophical paradigm. A possible answer to the questions of purpose and meaning and the future evolution of humankind beyond a conception that posits a priori a purposeless and meaningless universe. A report of the new scientific discoveries of a basal intelligence in cells and plants, on the question if mind is computational, the issue of free will, the mind-body problem, and the so-called ‘hard problem of consciousness’. A look into the recent revival of panpsychism and theories of universal consciousness. A journey into quantum physics from the perspective of philosophical idealism and an invitation to adopt new ways of seeing that might help us to transform our present understanding, expanding it into an integral cosmology, with a special emphasis on the spiritual and evolutionary cosmology of Sri Aurobindo.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: The End of the Curve of Reason

Lecture 2 Mind and Materialism: Powerful but Transitional

Lecture 3 Consciousness, Mind, Emotions, and the Body - Part I

Lecture 4 Consciousness, Mind, Emotions, and the Body - Part II

Section 3: The Trouble with Consciousness

Lecture 5 The "No-Progress-Quests" - Part I

Lecture 6 The "No-Progress-Quests" - Part II

Lecture 7 The hard problem of consciousness

Lecture 8 The Binding Problem - Part I

Lecture 9 The Binding Problem - Part II

Lecture 10 Is the mind computational?

Lecture 11 States of consciousness - Part I

Lecture 12 States of Consciousness - Part II

Lecture 13 Do we have free will?

Lecture 14 Libet's experiments on free will.

Lecture 15 Mind-Body problem: Causation Correlation Fallacies

Lecture 16 Mind Brain Identity Part I

Lecture 17 Mind Brain Identity Part II

Lecture 18 Mind Brain Identity Part III

Lecture 19 The cognizing plant

Lecture 20 The Mind of the Cells

Lecture 21 The Issue with Neurocentrism

Section 4: Philosophical Idealism: An Intuitive Approach

Lecture 22 A first step into Philosophical Idealism

Lecture 23 The distinction between primary and secondary qualities

Lecture 24 What is Reality?

Lecture 25 Plato, Kant and Nonduality

Lecture 26 Quantum physics and Idealism

Section 5: Toward a higher mind seeing of the World

Lecture 27 The higher mind seeing

Lecture 28 Alfred North Whitehead, Teilhard de Chardin, and Jean Gebser

Lecture 29 Panpsychism, Biopsychism and the CBC Model

Lecture 30 Reflexive Monism and Cosmopsychism

Lecture 31 Analytic Idealism and Panspiritism

Lecture 32 What is Life?

Lecture 33 Critical Assessment of the previous metaphysical Frameworks

Section 6: The Integral Cosmology of Sri Aurobindo

Lecture 34 Sri Aurobindo Pt. I: Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Vision

Lecture 35 Sri Aurobindo Pt.II : The Lower Hemisphere of Consciousness

Lecture 36 Sri Aurobindo Pt. III: The Concentric System of Being

Lecture 37 Sri Aurobindo Pt. IV: The Psychic Being-Transformation, and Higher Hemisphere

Lecture 38 Sri Aurobindo Pt. V: The Supermind and Vertical System of Being

Lecture 39 Sri Aurobindo Pt. VI: The Supermental transformation

For those who perceive a connection between science and something that transcends it.,For those who wonder if there is more than just matter and how a spiritual worldview is in line with modern science.,For those who are technically-minded and are not satisfied with religious and only faith-based or pseudo-scientific arguments.