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tcpipLast Thursday sat the gruelling PRINCE2 Practioner exam; this Thursday have a Project Management exam, and the following Thursday, an Advanced Project Management exam, latter two more orientated towards PMBoK. The main difference between the two is that the former gives a highly structured process with organisations, whereas the latter provides a toolkit of techniques. Using both, simultaneously, is increasingly my recommendation. Very interested to see that the ISO is introducing project management systems.
Philosophy Forum meeting yesterday had yours truly presenting with the evocative title: "Mary, the Swampy Philosophical Zombie, Is In Your Chinese Room!", an outline of theories and models of consciousness, followed by problems with physicalist reductionalism, and finally with varieties of dualism. Personally, I sit somewhere between property and predicate dualism. There was an excellent turnout and very good discussion. I have also been fortunate to have engaged zombie-advocate David Chalmers in some discussion on the subject.
Philosophy Forum meeting yesterday had yours truly presenting with the evocative title: "Mary, the Swampy Philosophical Zombie, Is In Your Chinese Room!", an outline of theories and models of consciousness, followed by problems with physicalist reductionalism, and finally with varieties of dualism. Personally, I sit somewhere between property and predicate dualism. There was an excellent turnout and very good discussion. I have also been fortunate to have engaged zombie-advocate David Chalmers in some discussion on the subject.
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Date: 2012-06-04 03:41 am (UTC)I'm interested in getting some more formal knowledge about project management, but PRINCE2 seems unwieldy overkill for the smaller organisations I usually am involved with. Perhaps PMBoK might be worth a look?
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Date: 2012-06-04 05:45 am (UTC)Wow, I didn't know there was any left ;)
More seriously, one of the great insights of functionalism (and empirically tested) was multiple realisibility. Of course, this in itself does not provide sufficient account for linguistic mediation of consciousness, imo.
PRINCE2 seems unwieldy overkill for the smaller organisations I usually am involved with. Perhaps PMBoK might be worth a look?
As long as you stick the principles, you're doing PRINCE2. By tailoring it to your organisation you can combine many of the procedures (e.g., using standard documentation). PRINCE2 even allows you to skip some steps, as long as you note that in your risk register.
I wouldn't recommend PMBoK for small projects; I find it more useful for bigger PRINCE2 projects that require fine-tuning. For example, PRINCE2 says you should have a schedule, but doesn't give any techniques on how to generate one. PMBoK gives several.
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Date: 2012-06-04 04:17 am (UTC)By that, you mean, the model where the brain is seen as a computer and the minute you "turn off the power," there goes consciousness?
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Date: 2012-06-04 05:29 am (UTC)The difference is in some forms of dualism, mental states are dependent on brain states, but cannot be reduced to them; this is called supervenience, or, from the other perspective, the mind is an emergent property of the brain.
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Date: 2012-06-04 12:34 pm (UTC)With subliminal messages I´ve long suspected that !!!