Fall 2008

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Brain

Part III Your Self in Your Brain
Findings from Recent Brain-Imaging Research

Friday
Oct. 24
11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

It was wonderful to discover yet another consummate professional whose research centers upon the "self" who is part of our OLLI community. Pleased to learn of Bill Hastings two sessions reporting on research findings on the "self," Jim Austin advised that he could contribute to the conceptualization of that construct from his own research. In contrast to Hastings' work which is based on how people behave, Austin specialty will take us inside of the human brain to demonstrate how portions of the wondrous organ become activated in reference to the "self."

The Brain represents our psyche in a way very different from the way it represents our physical eelf (or soma). It also attends preferentially to our eelf-centered interests in a way very different from the way it attends to other things in the outside world.

This PowerPoint, full color presentation discusses some everyday implications of this new brain research.

James H. Austin MD, emeritus professor of neurology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, has authored the MIT Press publication: Zen and the Brain (1998), Zen-Brain Reflections (2006), and Selfless Insights (2009).

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