The
Human Mind..... Society and Madness Asclepius March 28th
10 am
For
thousands of years, the human mind has been shrouded in mystery.
Elusive in nature, the subject has prompted an intensive study of
several puzzling questions about what the mind is, what it's made
of, how it works, and how it differs from our brains. With the
latest advancements in both our understanding of the brain and the
technology we use to look inside it, scientists have vastly improved
their understanding of the human mind. Now, more so than at any
other point in human history, we can better explain and describe
This is a ten week two hour per week course. The cost is £50, For
more dtails rin 01792 480245 or 07592330467
Plato, Trump and fake news Wednesday March 29th 10 am
What
we are now calling fake news—misinformation that people fall
for—is nothing new. Thousands of years ago, in the Republic, Plato
offered up a hellish vision of people who mistake shadows cast on a
wall for reality. In the Iliad, the Trojans fell for a fake horse.
Shakespeare loved misinformation: in “Twelfth Night,” Viola
disguises herself as a man and wins the love of another woman; in
“The Tempest,” Caliban mistakes Stephano for a god. And, in
recent years, the Nobel committee has awarded several economics
prizes to work on “information asymmetry,” “cognitive bias,”
and other ways in which the human propensity toward misperception
distorts the workings of the world.
Leonard Cohen the Later Years Thursday March 30 th 10 am
The
Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was born in 1934. An early
writer and guitarist, Cohen began to compose and release folk-rock
and pop songs by the mid-1960s. One of his most famous compositions
is "Hallelujah," a song released on 1984's Various
Positions. Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
2008, and he received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in
2010. Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82. This is a ten week course.
It costs £50. For more information ring 01792 480245 or 07592330467
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