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Is the field of "Consciousness Studies" legitimate? Or is this a fraud?
Hi everyone!
First of all, I wasn't entirely sure whether this should be posted here or in General Discussion. If this is the wrong forum,please accept my apologies.
Now to topic: Recently, in our college's science fest, there was a talk titled "Consciousness: The next frontier of Science". It was to be given by a person affiliated to http://www.voicepune.com/" . Now, we have had these people come to our hostel before and try to convince us that evolution is not real and further their own religious agenda. I unfortunately missed the talk (its fun tearing up their arguments
). From what I heard from my friends, the talk went as expected- full of pseudo-scientific jibber-jabber and stuff like how numbers aren't real so we shouldn't waste our time studying them.
The most interesting part of it all was that the speaker claimed to have an http://www.bvinst.edu/gradstudies/index.html" , again one of the best research institutes in the country.
Now, I wouldn't have cared if this was a philosophy course- but this just looks like bad philosophy in the garb of science. The speaker who gave that talk demonstrated absolutely ZERO knowledge of even the basic concepts of science- he not only denied evolution but outright dismissed mathematics as not worth studying, because "numbers aren't real(his words)"(This is based on second person sources, but how many ways are there of saying evolution is wrong without actually saying it?). Note that this person had already finished his MS Program.
While i would usually dismiss this kind of stuff as pseudo-science, but the presence of so many big names really puzzles me. Also,some of the http://www.bvinst.edu/gradstudies/index.html" seem to actually think this will help them in their careers. So i guess my question is "Consciousness studies" or whatever it is that they teach a legitimate branch of science, or is it some wild speculations of a few people that some misguided students are being made to study?
Hi everyone!
First of all, I wasn't entirely sure whether this should be posted here or in General Discussion. If this is the wrong forum,please accept my apologies.
Now to topic: Recently, in our college's science fest, there was a talk titled "Consciousness: The next frontier of Science". It was to be given by a person affiliated to http://www.voicepune.com/" . Now, we have had these people come to our hostel before and try to convince us that evolution is not real and further their own religious agenda. I unfortunately missed the talk (its fun tearing up their arguments
). From what I heard from my friends, the talk went as expected- full of pseudo-scientific jibber-jabber and stuff like how numbers aren't real so we shouldn't waste our time studying them.The most interesting part of it all was that the speaker claimed to have an http://www.bvinst.edu/gradstudies/index.html" , again one of the best research institutes in the country.
Now, I wouldn't have cared if this was a philosophy course- but this just looks like bad philosophy in the garb of science. The speaker who gave that talk demonstrated absolutely ZERO knowledge of even the basic concepts of science- he not only denied evolution but outright dismissed mathematics as not worth studying, because "numbers aren't real(his words)"(This is based on second person sources, but how many ways are there of saying evolution is wrong without actually saying it?). Note that this person had already finished his MS Program.
While i would usually dismiss this kind of stuff as pseudo-science, but the presence of so many big names really puzzles me. Also,some of the http://www.bvinst.edu/gradstudies/index.html" seem to actually think this will help them in their careers. So i guess my question is "Consciousness studies" or whatever it is that they teach a legitimate branch of science, or is it some wild speculations of a few people that some misguided students are being made to study?
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