Q&A with Brother David Steindl-Rast and audience; re: History of Orthodox Scientific Thought

This is an extract from Rupert's workshop with Brother David Steindl-Rast at Hollyhock, Cortes Island, BC in August, 2011.00:00   Brother David Steindl-Rast: Making a thing out of the soul; AI Sentience 04:08   Rupert Sheldrake: Golem/Frankenstein myths and robot consciousness07:07   Rupert: Analog computers as possible framework for machine consciousness07:57   David: So it is possible?08:23   Rupert: Promissory Materialism will "prove" that people are machines 09:04   Rupert: The genome wager with Lewis Wolpert 14:13   David: Science as limited faith, one without hope15:00   Audience: if Science and Faith both seek truth, they must converge15:41   Rupert: we all have implicit biases; materialists in particular have huge blindspots17:31   Audience: Truth emerging like a flower17:54   Rupert: Institutionalized science, grants, educational conformity19:32   David: How can you do it?19:36   Rupert: I was forced to work independently, not recommended21:04   Rupert's excommunication by Nature Editor John Maddox22:29   Rupert: Pluralism in politics, but not science "we know the truth"24:13   David: Questioning establishment power25:32   Audience: A rebirth of creative thinking?25:43   Rupert: Trouble with the academic system; funding reform; medical system fatigue; alternative therapies29:10   Audience: Morphic resonance, homeopathy, interpersonal neurobiology, setting science free30:17   Rupert: Comparative effectiveness research, pragmatic medical systems, most scientists are from Eastern cultures (India, China)32:35   Audience: What if you talked to a radical cosmologist?32:48   Rupert: Mainstream cosmology IS radical, multi-verse theory, laws of nature must be fixed34:58   Rupert: Martin Reese's simpler hypothesis "get's rid of God"36:09   Rupert: Stars being conscious too much for Martin Reese37:48   Rupert: Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, creation story, popularized science, natural philosophy