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How we know what we know: Biology and Evolution

Ron Garret

11 a.m., February 21, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, Ron Garret will discuss “How we know what we know: Biology and Evolution”.

Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google. He was previously a rocket scientist. He also made a feature-length documentary about homelessness (graceofgodmovie.com). His blog can be found at blog.rongarret.info.

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How we know what we know: Biology and Evolution – Ron Garret from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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Palliative Care

Jamie Schweizer, Registered Nurse

11 a.m., January 31, 2021

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, the topic will be “Palliative Care”. The speaker will be Jamie Schweizer, who is a Registered Nurse currently working in palliative care at Kaiser Permanente. She will discuss palliative care; what it is, how it differs from hospice, and the impact of COVID-19.

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Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.

https://www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09

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You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:

314247393

as the meeting number, and

255787

as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.

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Palliative Care – Jamie Schweizer from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Why Do We Feel What We Feel?

Michael Abramson

11 a.m., January 17, 2021

Here is the speaker’s description of his talk:

“My area of expertise is system modeling and simulation. The folks like me are usually interested in systems’ behavior and not in their feelings. We can say sometimes that a particle “feels” the force, but only metaphorically.

Yet we know that at least some systems, such as humans and animals, really feel something, and for us this subjective experience seems very real. How to reconcile this reality with the reality of physical and chemical processes in our brains?

This seems so difficult to do that this is known as “The Hard Problem of Consciousness.” It looks like physics just doesn’t have a place for something like subjective experience. Or does it?

In this talk I’m going to discuss a radical idea that can make the hard problem of consciousness almost trivial, but may also have profound implications for how we see the world and ourselves, how we trust science and other people, and what kind of moral choices we have. You can decide how this worldview, which I’d call “subjective materialism,” can be consistent with humanism.”

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Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.

https://www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09

(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)

You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:

314247393

as the meeting number, and

255787

as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness: Why Do We Feel What We Feel? – Michael Abramson from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Brief History of California K-12 Education

Jerry Pannone

11 a.m., December 13, 2020

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, Jerry Pannone will discuss “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Brief History of California K-12 Education”.

Jerry Pannone is a professional musician and retired music and humanities teacher who taught elementary through high school in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Mateo. He retired from the San Francisco School of the Arts High School.

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Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.

https://www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09

(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)

You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:

314247393

as the meeting number, and

255787

as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Brief History of California K-12 Education – Jerry Pannone from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

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Scientology Mission Creep

Doug Kramer

11 a.m., December 6, 2020

At this Sunday’s Humanist Forum, Doug Kramer will discuss “Scientology Mission Creep”.

Following up on his Forum talk ‘Growing up with, and leaving, Scientology’ three Sundays ago, Doug Kramer will discuss his video ‘Mission Creep’ which is about his brief experience being set-up/conned into signing a 2 1/2 year contract to join Scientology staff at the Ventura mission in his early 20s, and his subsequent escape.

Note: This Forum was originally scheduled for Nov. 29, 2020, but has now been rescheduled for Dec. 6, 2020 instead.

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Because of the coronavirus situation, this Forum will be held online.

https://www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/314247393?pwd=d285R2VxWWdNcmk4NHdPaVNpWjc4dz09

(Note: this is a different link than has been posted here previously.)

You can also install the Zoom app on your smart phone, and then enter:

314247393

as the meeting number, and

255787

as the passcode, to get to this Zoom meeting.

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