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Knowledge lecture series begins
Sarah Rizzo
Staff Reporter
Dr. Walter Freeman, a professor emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke Monday in Strosacker Auditorium on “Perception Seen as a Creative Process of Self-Renewal” as part of the year-long “Knowledge and the Senses” lecture series.
The lecture series began in August with Oliver Sacks, author of An Anthropologist on Mars, speaking at the 2003 university convocation.
Free and open to the public, Dr. Freeman’s lecture combined a diverse group of disciplines and drew faculty, students, and the public to delve into the relationship between knowledge and the senses from a neurobiologist’s perspective. “Knowledge is an organic whole,” Freeman explained, “which exists not only in our brains, but in the organization of innumerable people – a repository of experience.” Freeman argued that conventional learning leads to the specialization of knowledge and, subsequently, social isolation. Freeman’s lecture included the topic of shared identities and communal rites of passage and the effect they have on the brain.
The lecture also sought to explore the relationship between unconsciousness, the brain, and decision-making. “The consciousness emerges after the decision has been made, our unconscious structure is making the decision for us, we take action after this fact, and then use reason to justify what we did,” Freeman said.
After the one hour talk, a question-and-answer session ensued.
As the author of four books including How Brains Make Up Their Minds and hundreds of articles, Freeman’s lecture integrated neurobiology, psychology, and philosophy and furthered Case’s year-long pursuit of greater understandings of knowledge and the senses.
James McGuffin-Cawley, professor and associate dean of the school of engineering, heads the theme committee this year and said that other events under this theme will occur later this semester.
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