Project Management Exams, Consciousness Presentation

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Last 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.

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Physicalist reductionalism is the idea that all mental events can be reduced to brain states, which is somewhat different to what you're describing, which is that mental states are dependent on brain states.

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.