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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[jonathankorman.livejournal.com]

If ever there was a paper with a title designed to make me read it, that is the one.

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I must confess I did have a little fun with the title. There are of course, other that have also tried to jazz up what is normally formal inquiries. One of my favourites is Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments