With Rupert Sheldrake
A Philosophy in Pubs special

Rupert Sheldrake believes that science would be better off without the assumptions held by the scientific community… assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The delusion is that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions have been answered and it is only the details that are yet to be ironed out. Rupert finds weaknesses, challenges assumptions and allows himself to think the unthinkable.

Sheldrake is a biologist who has studied, researched and taught at Cambridge and Harvard, and he has held senior academic posts on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a fellow of the Royal Society.

Philosophy in Pubs invites speakers to shake up their brain cells, they then they split up into small groups, with facilitators, and debate the ideas around the table. Sheldrake will challenge your preconceptions.

Here are the ten questions asked in ‘The Science Delusion’. Have a think yourself; the answers aren’t as obvious as you might imagine:
Is nature mechanical?
Is the total amount of matter and energy the same?
Are the laws of nature fixed?
Is matter unconscious?
Is nature purposeless?
Is all biological inheritance material?
Are memories stored as material traces?
Are minds confined to brains?
Are psychic phenomena illusory?
 
Monday 20 February
7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, BN1 1AF
Ages 16+
£8/£6
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