[spsp-members] Joseph LeDoux (NYU) at PhilInBioMed Seminar: "Our Four Realms of Existence: A Fresh Look at the Science of What and Who We Are"

[Thomas Pradeu]

Joseph LeDoux (Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, NYU)Our Four
Realms of Existence: A Fresh Look at the Science of What and Who We Are
Friday, December 15th, 2023, 5pm French time (UTC+1)

Joseph LeDoux <https://joseph-ledoux.com/> is Director of The Emotional
Brain Institute <http://www.cns.nyu.edu/ebi/>, NYU, Professor of Neural
Science and Psychology <http://www.cns.nyu.edu/ledoux/home.html>, NYU, &
Professor of Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone. He
is a world-leading expert on emotions.

The talk will be given via Zoom. Please contact Thomas Pradeu
<thomas.pradeu at u-bordeaux.fr> for Zoom link.


*Abstract*

Humans have long thought of their bodies and minds as separate spheres of
existence. The body is physical—the source of aches and pains. But the mind
is mental; it perceives, remembers, believes, feels, and imagines. Although
modern science has largely eliminated this mind–body dualism, people still
tend to imagine their minds as separate from their physical being. Even in
research, the notion of a “self” that is somehow distinct from the rest of
the organism persists. But such ideas are increasingly barriers to
discovery and understanding, and a new framework is needed. I propose that
a human being can be characterized as a composite or ensemble of four
fundamental, parallel, entwined realms of existence that reflect our
evolutionary past and account for our present ways of being—biological,
neurobiological, cognitive, and conscious. All four are, deep down,
biological. But the neurobiological realm transcends the mere biological,
the cognitive transcends the mere neurobiological, and the conscious
transcends the mere cognitive. We each exist uniquely within our own realms
every moment of adult life, and together our realms account for all of what
and who we are. The four realms also give us a novel understanding of how
an individual person, social group, culture, or species, similar to, and
different from, other individuals, social groups, cultures, and species.

Sincerely,

Thomas Pradeu
CNRS Research Director in Philosophy of Science
Immunology Unit ImmunoConcEpT, UMR5164, CNRS & University of Bordeaux
Presidential Fellow, Chapman University, CA, USA
Team Leader Conceptual Biology and Medicine Team
<https://immunoconcept.cnrs.fr/conceptual-biology-medicine/>
Coordinator of the Philosophy in Biology and Medicine Network
<https://www.philinbiomed.org/> (PhilInBioMed)
Université de Bordeaux
Bâtiment Bordeaux Biologie Santé, 3ème étage
2, rue Docteur Hoffman Martinot
33076 Bordeaux, France
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