Why Humans May Be Too Neurologically Limited To
Successfully Rule The World
Super excited about our next Future Salon with Professor Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D. on July 17 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto please RSVP: http://budurl.com/3abd
Abstract: Brain Plasticity Revolution
We’ll discuss the principles of brain plasticity, on the way to
explaining the bases of origin of individual human abilities and the ‘Persons’
who employ them. We’ll describe how this science has been employed
to improve or transform the lives of children and adults in need of neurological
help. We’ll consider some of the greater societal implications of our
new understanding of the brain-plasticity bases of normal and abnormal human
behaviors. We’ll try to explain how the empirical, pragmatic and
substantially fictitious notions about our self-development and about our
humanity that have provided the primary bases for the education, organization
and control of human societies are now being challenged by a scientific
understanding of the true nature of the processes that account for them.
In its implications for how we view ourselves and our rapidly evolving
cultures, this new perspective about our true, limited natures may provide the
basis for rapid, further societal degradation -- OR guide us toward large-scale
societal corrections, and cultural rejuvenation. We’ll end our
conversation by discussing a few strategies that might guide us toward that
better path.
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