Week 7 - Oct 23
OLLI FALL BREAK
Meet at the Stanford L Warren Branch of the Durham County Library, Meeting Room #1
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Readings and videos
Questions for October 23rd class discussion:
Meet at the Stanford L Warren Branch of the Durham County Library, Meeting Room #1
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Readings and videos
- Emotions and Feelings, excerpt from Descartes' Error, by Antonio Damasio (via email)
- Consciousness and the Social Brain, by Michael Graziano excerpt (by email)
- Humanity's Second Spiritual Age, Huffington Blog by Duane Elgin
Questions for October 23rd class discussion:
- Does the attention schema theory of consciousness fit your own experience? How or how not?
- What does consciousness have to do with an Axial Age?
- What does consciousness have to do with emotions and feelings?
- What role can consciousness of our background emotions play?
- How does gratitude support the momentum of an Axial Age?
- Do you have comments or observations on Duane Elgin's description of Humanity's Second Axial Age?