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Today we welcome Alva Noe  The B.I.STANDER Podcast is a conversational podcast unique to Bainbridge Island and Seattle that covers culture, current events, humor, music, sports, technology, politics, island activities, environment, quality of life issues, wellness and just about everything else. The intent is to introduce interesting people, ideas, and conversations. We are not perfect and that's OK! Thank you for your understanding.  Our Podcast is brought to you by: Eagle Harbor Insurance Blue Canary Great Northern Electric Follow us on Facebook and Instagram Listen on Spotify, PlayerFM, Itunes, TuneIN, Castbox, and more! Music performed by Band of Steves of The Island Music Guild. 206-780-6911 lessons@islandmusic.org  *additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com Wikipedia: Alva Noë (born 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, he is interested in phenomenology, the theory of art, Wittgenstein, and the origins of analytic philosophy. This Audio is courtesy of Seattle Town Hall Taped Live Saturday, July 13, 2019, 7:30PM @ The Forum   Town Hall Seattle:  Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid-fire activity. Despite efforts from Major League Baseball to shorten games and make the sport more appealing to today’s shorter attention spans, writer and philosopher Alva Noë contends that baseball is always intellectually fascinating and compelling for the “true fan.” Noë takes Town Hall’s stage to explore ideas outlined in his book Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark—namely, the many unexpected ways which baseball is truly a philosophical game. Noë suggests that baseball’s superficially slow pace is an opportunity to participate in the distinctive thinking practice that defines the game; if baseball is boring, it’s boring the way philosophy is boring—not because there isn’t a lot going on, but because the challenge baseball poses is making sense of it all. Noë invites us to ponder this curious game: the activity of keeping score, the perspectives that define who is responsible for the game’s events, the opportunities for fans to tell the story of the game and actively participate in its creation. Join Noë for a new take on America’s pastime—and examine baseball as a window to language, culture, and the nature of human action intertwined with deep and fundamental human truths. Alva Noë is a writer and philosopher who focuses on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Out of Our Heads and Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, among other books. He is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the 2018 recipient of the Judd/Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies.

Today we welcome <a href="http://www.alvanoe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alva Noe</a> <a href="http://www.thebistanderpodcast.libsyn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The B.I.STANDER Podcast</a> is a conversational podcast unique to Bainbridge Island and Seattle that covers culture, current events, humor, music, sports, technology, politics, island activities, environment, quality of life issues, wellness and just about everything else. The intent is to introduce interesting people, ideas, and conversations. We are not perfect and that's OK! Thank you for your understanding.  Our Podcast is brought to you by: <a href="http://www.eagleharborinsurance.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eagle Harbor Insurance</a> <a href="http://www.bluecanary.biz%20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Canary</a> <a href="http://greatnorthernelectric.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Great Northern Electric</a> Follow us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bistanderpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook and Instagram</a> Listen on Spotify, PlayerFM, Itunes, TuneIN, Castbox, and more! Music performed by Band of Steves of <a href="https://http//www.islandmusic.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Island Music Guild.</a> 206-780-6911 <a href="mailto:lessons@islandmusic.org">lessons@islandmusic.org</a> *additional sound effects from <a href="https://www.zapsplat.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.zapsplat.com</a> Wikipedia: <a href="http://www.alvanoe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alva Noë </a>(born 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University of California, Berkeley</a>. The focus of his work is the theory of perception and consciousness. In addition to these problems in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cognitive science</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">philosophy of mind</a>, he is interested in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">phenomenology</a>, the theory of art, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wittgenstein</a>, and the origins of analytic philosophy. This Audio is courtesy of Seattle Town Hall Taped Live Saturday, July 13, 2019, 7:30PM @ The Forum   Town Hall Seattle: Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid-fire activity. Despite efforts from Major League Baseball to shorten games and make the sport more appealing to today’s shorter attention spans, writer and philosopher Alva Noë contends that baseball is always intellectually fascinating and compelling for the “true fan.” Noë takes Town Hall’s stage to explore ideas outlined in his book Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark—namely, the many unexpected ways which baseball is truly a philosophical game. Noë suggests that baseball’s superficially slow pace is an opportunity to participate in the distinctive thinking practice that defines the game; if baseball is boring, it’s boring the way philosophy is boring—not because there isn’t a lot going on, but because the challenge baseball poses is making sense of it all. Noë invites us to ponder this curious game: the activity of keeping score, the perspectives that define who is responsible for the game’s events, the opportunities for fans to tell the story of the game and actively participate in its creation. Join Noë for a new take on America’s pastime—and examine baseball as a window to language, culture, and the nature of human action intertwined with deep and fundamental human truths. Alva Noë is a writer and philosopher who focuses on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Out of Our Heads and Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, among other books. He is a 2012 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the 2018 recipient of the Judd/Hume Prize in Advanced Visual Studies.

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Human Consciousness is a fascinating research topic. Discussed previously in a number of Bridging the Gaps conversations, cutting edge research on consciousness – an ungrasped concept and an unsolved problem in science today – will keep appearing here at this Portal for Curious Minds.  It is widely accepted that consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. An important question is where does consciousness arise; does this arise from a single seat in the brain or is this a distributed phenomenon involving various interconnected parts and networks of the brain. Whatever is the answer to this question, most researchers relate this phenomenon with the working of human brain. Alva Noe – part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist – restates and re-examines the problem of consciousness and proposes that we should abandon “200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain”. Alva Noe is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center of New Media. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995. The focus of this conversation with Alva Noe is his book “Out of Our Heads: Why You are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness”. One of the main concepts that Alva Noe presents in this book is that consciousness does not happen in the brain and it is not located in our brains; he suggests that rather than being something that happens inside us, consciousness is something we do. In this conversation we discuss in detail this “fresh attempt at understanding our minds and how we interact with the world around us”.

Human Consciousness is a fascinating research topic. Discussed previously in a number of Bridging the Gaps conversations, cutting edge research on consciousness – an ungrasped concept and an unsolved problem in science today – will keep appearing here at this Portal for Curious Minds. It is widely accepted that consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. An important question is where does consciousness arise; does this arise from a single seat in the brain or is this a distributed phenomenon involving various interconnected parts and networks of the brain. Whatever is the answer to this question, most researchers relate this phenomenon with the working of human brain. Alva Noe – part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist – restates and re-examines the problem of consciousness and proposes that we should abandon “200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain”. Alva Noe is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center of New Media. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1995. The focus of this conversation with Alva Noe is his book “Out of Our Heads: Why You are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness”. One of the main concepts that Alva Noe presents in this book is that consciousness does not happen in the brain and it is not located in our brains; he suggests that rather than being something that happens inside us, consciousness is something we do. In this conversation we discuss in detail this “fresh attempt at understanding our minds and how we interact with the world around us”.

Why You Are Not Your Brain? A Conversation on Consciousness with Alva Noe

What do we experience we look at an object – say, a tomato? A traditional view holds that we entertain an internal picture or representation of the tomato, and moreover that this internal picture is of the surface of the tomato, and not, say, the side of the tomato that is hidden from view. This general view of experience has been criticized for some time by numerous scientists and philosophers, Alva Noe among them. In earlier books, Noe — professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley — has defended the view that our experiences of the world are grounded in practical skills – our abilities to manipulate things, and their availability or accessibility to us. According to this enactive view of perception, the hidden side of the tomato is also in our conscious experience of it – it is, in Noe’s words, present as absent. In his new book, Varieties of Presence (Harvard University Press, 2012), Noe elaborates the enactive view further, to explain the nature of presence and of access: how the world shows up to us in experience, and how the way it shows up depends on our modes of access to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy

What do we experience we look at an object – say, a tomato? A traditional view holds that we entertain an internal picture or representation of the tomato, and moreover that this internal picture is of the surface of the tomato, and not, say, the side of the tomato that is hidden from view. This general view of experience has been criticized for some time by numerous scientists and philosophers, <a href="http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alva Noe</a> among them. In earlier books, Noe — professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley — has defended the view that our experiences of the world are grounded in practical skills – our abilities to manipulate things, and their availability or accessibility to us. According to this enactive view of perception, the hidden side of the tomato is also in our conscious experience of it – it is, in Noe’s words, present as absent. In his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674062140/?tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Varieties of Presence</a> (Harvard University Press, 2012), Noe elaborates the enactive view further, to explain the nature of presence and of access: how the world shows up to us in experience, and how the way it shows up depends on our modes of access to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>Support our show by becoming a premium member! <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/philosophy</a>

Alva Noe, “Varieties of Presence” (Harvard UP, 2012)