This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join in to the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
How can we deceive ourselves? This talk and discussion will explore some of the ways in which we can fool ourselves and why. Some motives are familiar to folk psychology, such as avoiding a hard truth or tough decision. Others mystify most people: we may lie to ourselves to better persuade others. Our featured speaker, Dr. Mark Reimers, will propose that self-deception is integral to our consciousness: our evolved intense attunement to other people induces us to fool ourselves in order to belong.
Dr. Mark Reimers is a quantitative neuroscientist at Michigan State University working to elucidate how dynamic brain activities give rise to mental functions and moods. Dr. Reimers has worked at the US National Institutes of Health, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics.
This Sunday, we will also be having live music! Our featured musician will be cellist, George Crotty: https://www.georgecrotty.com/
Please RSVP on meetup to get access to the Zoom link:
https://www.meetup.com/toronto-oasis/events/pkdtctyfcfbjc/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: GMT20230326-152503_Recording_1920x1080.mp4
The guest musician was also recorded above.