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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[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I'm generally a functionalist when it comes to theories of consciousness.

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?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

followed by problems with physicalist reductionalism,

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?

[jonathankorman.livejournal.com]

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

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

I'm still attracted to the nondualism of Schrödinger and Advaita Vedanta .