Kingston Philosophy Café

What is the relationship between our minds and our brains? Can consciousness be reduced to neurobiological processing within the brain? Can it be equated with exhibited forms of behaviour or functioning? Do our brains work much like computers and, if so, might computers think and feel? Can we reject the reduction of consciousness to physical processes without having to accept dualism (i.e. the separate existence of mind and matter)? We may not agree definitive answers to these questions but, in discussing them, should at least clarify in our own minds/brains the conceptual issues involved. During the session we will hear from a paranoid robot and a homicidal computer!