Short Description: "Improvising Consciousness" is a performative lecture and interactive workshop that explores cognition as historically contingent. The lecture introduces different theories of mind including: Julian Jaynes' radical hypothesis that that the minds of pre-historic humans were configured bicamerally with a god-side and a man-side and that early humans literally heard voices of gods in their heads; Stone and Chase's provocative insinuation that the contemporary mind grounds out in multiple personality; Baron-Cohen's stark theory that autism is an extreme of the male mind and that autistics lack a theory of mind. The exercises in the interactive workshop temporarily steal the participants' minds and support phenomenological experience of alternative mind configurations.
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