Philosophy Club, Friday, 12/26, "Food"

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The Philosophy Club meets Friday afternoons at Lake Miona Recreation Center in The Villages, FL.  Meetings start promptly at 4:00PM and end at 5:30PM. Presenters usually speak for 25 to 45 minutes, followed by a Discussion Period where the Leader and Audience Members ask Questions and express their Opinions, and the Presenter replies.

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

Friday,    12/26         Joe Frost                 "Food"

This talk will be about food , what it is and what it isn't . It will touch on how it is used  by the body and may lead to consideration of changing our thinking about what we are consuming. Sandwiched between two of the major eating days of the year it will be food for thought. 

Friday,    1/2         Jim Laurent       "Should We Clone Neanderthals?"

Now that we have a Neanderthal genome, what do we do with it? An examination of the essence of humanity. An overview of the technologies for cloning and the ethics involved.

Friday,     1/9        John Rainey        "The National Park Service"

How it was formed, how it's structured and examples of its many units.   

Friday,     1/16      Drake Shepard     "Leonardo da Vinci Comes Alive"

Fresh from the year 1500, da Vinci appears in costume and tells about his life, his employment as a military engineer and how he painted the influential Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Plus he will detail his prolific famous futuristic machine design drawings. By combining art and science da Vinci became the ultimate Renaissance man.

Friday,    1/23    Mike DeVita          'Innovations In WW2 Combat Aircraft-Pacific"

At the start WW2 U.S. fighter aircraft were outclassed by the Japanese Zero.   This presentation discusses the engineering and introduction of newer fighters and tactics that were developed not just to match, but to defeat the Zero.

Friday,   1/30     Bill Shang            “Neuroscience Enters Plato’s Cave: The Brain's Surprising Making of Reality”

“Neuroscience, informed by a breakthrough in AI, has radically reshaped our understanding of how the brain reconstructs reality. From the sense of self, free will to schizophrenia, research on the Default Mode Network (DMN) reveals that much of what we perceive is generated internally. This talk explores how planning, dreaming, and hallucinations arise from the same circuitry—and how these discoveries give new meaning to the ancient question posed by Plato’s Cave.”

WANT TO BE A PRESENTER ?: Send us the short Title of your proposed talk, along with a descriptive paragraph or two describing the Subject of your Talk, your Interests and Qualifications to present it, and why we should be interested. Send your proposal to our Leader, Bob Brooke (bnbrooke @aol.com) [Google Groups discourages me from entering a clickable email address. So, to reach Bob by email remove the space between bnbrooke and @]