W o K : Ways of Knowing
Virtual Seminars
Within the context of
WoK's VR
Explorations, we have begun to organize a weekly series of lectures
in the Qwaq
WoK Forums. These lectures have a very informal atmosphere, and they
are also
experimental, since we are just beginning to explore the opportunities
and
limitations of holding talks and inviting interactions between speaker
and
audience in a virtual reality setting.
Here is a
listing of lecture dates, the presenters, and their lecture titles,
linked to summaries of their talks:
- June 3,
2007: Jan Schwindt, Mind
as
Hardware and Matter as Software
- June 10,
2007: Sean Murphy, Projectual
Identity and Biological Intelligence
- June 17,
2007: Piet Hut, Groping in the Dark:
Exploring the Use of Scientific Methods in Matters of Being
- June 24,
2007: Zenon Pylyshyn, The
contemporary scientific view of the mind, and some shortcomings of this
view
- July 29,
2007: Steven Tainer, Knowledge and the
"self" in science and contemplative practice
- Sept 23,
2007: Adam Frank, The Constant Fire: 8
Points to Walk Away with
- Sept 30,
2007: Andrew McGowan, Using the Working
Hypothesis
- Oct 7,
2007: Sukanya Charkrabarti, Ways of Knowing I've
Known
- October 14,
2007: Douglass Carmichael, The body and
mathematics. The body and poetry. Same body?
- October 21,
2007: Marc Hoffmann, Schroedinger's Cat
and the Buddhist Theory of Emptiness
- October 28,
2007: Steven Tainer, Saving Aristotle's
"Man on the Rack"
- November 4,
2007: Karen Sobel Lojeski, Comments on "Virtual Distance" from 11/4
& 11/9
- November 11,
2007: Bob Magrisso, The Affective Meditation as thought
experiment: Example of a contemplative practice using imagination
- November 18,
2007: Piet Hut, Living with Uncertainty
- November 25,
2007: Sean Murphy, Can
Human Identity be reconciled with the Working Hypothesis?
- Dec 2, 2007:
Jan Schwindt, On the Word "Existence"
- Dec 9, 2007:
Bob Magrisso and Doug Carmichael, Death and the
Working Hypothesis
- Dec 16,
2007: Andrew McGowan, The WoK Wiki
- Jan 13,
2008: Karen Sobel Lojeski and Steven Tainer, Immersion in
virtual
worlds, and the relevance for the
working hypothesis
- Jan 20,
2008: Zenon Pylyshyn, Knowledge,
Understanding and Transcending
the Borders of Self
- Jan 27,
2008: Marc Hoffmann, A followup on
earlier post-retreat reflections
- Feb 3, 2008:
Davina Chan, Neurophysiology
of Meditation
- Feb 10,
2008: Piet Hut, Becoming
Friends with Phenomena