1. PERCEPTION Ways of understanding or being aware of sensory information and reality Five senses, Sixth sense Physiological constraints (biology) Cognitive constraints (embodied) Illusions, role of memory, emotions, blind sight Limits of logical approaches Neuroscience Explosion (FMRI, molecular biology, and computers

2. WAYS TO DECIDE Authority Revelation Instinct Intuition Reason Psyche

3. How Do We Know We Know Feeling or Intellect – Water is wet – 2 + 2 = 4 – Capgras Syndrome – E=MxC Squared – Atoms – Quarks – Quantum Theory – God

4. AUTHORITY Parents Roles (teacher, coach, religious leaders) Laws Uniforms and Social cues (norms) Learned vs. instinctual

5. REVELATION Direct experience via spirit contact Indirect experience through senses Belief independent of natural phenomena Is there a religion gene or instinct? Has religion evolved? Temporal lobe seizures (St Theresa) Persinger’s deep brain stimulation

6. INSTINCT Built in or hard wired Inherited Not learned Considered animalistic

7. Intuition Unconscious or preconscious Effortless and fast Adaptive based valuation, not precise Association based, like a metaphor, Automatic, not flexible Practice (muscle memory) Learned

8. Reason Conscious Takes Effort Slow Rule based like logic Flexible Can be practiced but takes a long time Can not reliably predict future as rules based on the past (stock market)

9. PSYCHE Psychodynamic (Freud, Jung, Adler, Klein etc) Psychophysiologic (conditioning, aversion, hypnosis, CBT, addiction, etc) Abnormalities of cognition or perception Combinations

10. FREE WILL Determinism Agency Combination Neuro-ethics and neuro- jurisprudence RESPONSIBILITY

11. Decision Defects Delusion (hallucination) Illusion ( perceptual constraints) OCD (can’t be sure) Decision influences (non conscious effects, loss aversion, relativity) Wrong premise (bad information) Wrong logic (faulty thinking) Wrong guess (intuition fails) Compulsion ( determined by instinct) Misled

12. DECISION MAKING How do we know the basis of any given decision or conclusion? Are decisions made consciously, unconsciously, both? Can we change our minds? Value of rational discourse vs. appeal to un or preconscious? Can we protect ourselves?

13. Further Viewing Decisions Daniel Kahnemann http://www.uctv.tv/search- details.aspx?showID=12301http://www.uctv.tv/search- details.aspx?showID=12301 Jonah Lehrer Fora TV How we decide Dan Ariely http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_ we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_ we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html Robert A Burton http://youtube.com/watch?v=QL12cd4d0ro4 http://youtube.com/watch?v=QL12cd4d0ro4 Robert Cialdini Http://bigthink.com/robertcialdini

17. Themes Worldview Internal vs. External Reductionism vs. Dualism vs Emergence Consciousness, Constraints on Knowing Strange or Wonderful Mathematics Fundamental Weirdness of Matter, Space and Time Feeling of Knowing Implications for Discourse

19. Science vs. Religion Debate Many Hours of challenging thought Beyond Belief Series of Meetings on The Science Network The Four Horsemen Google Videos Templeton Foundation Wright and Goldberg on Blogging heads Kuhn Closer to Truth Faraday Institute St Edmunds Cambridge Clayton Clayton’s Emerging