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BR74S3 - Defining being human, compassion, feeling special
Brockwood Park, UK - 14 October 1974
Seminar 3
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Introductory talk given by Julian Melzack (Philosopher).
Julian Melzack: There is a prima facie incompatibility in what science is doing in trying to understand man and what we think man to be.
JM: Man is a probability automaton.
Gordon Globus: Your approach is in terms of language descriptions and I don’t think you’re accounting for awareness.
David Bohm: No machine, not even a probability machine, will actually explain quantum mechanics.
DB: How can you define what is meant by being human?
Fritjof Capra: I think we all can agree that man is a quantum probabilistic automaton.
Robin Monro: A mechanistic view of man doesn’t adequately account for consciousness.
K: Can compassion and love be taught?
K: How can I have passion?
K: How does one go beyond sorrow?
K: Why this desire to be something special?