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Hello subscribers, Our next talk is at *4:30 pm* on *Sunday 15 November* at our regular venue, the Charles Darwin Room in the Gardners Inn Hotel, 255 Great Western Highway, Blackheath. For this event, and the one following , we are charging* $10 admission* to cover our costs, including a new PA system and projector screen, speaker accommodation and transport costs (the first speaker, Sam Baron, flew from Melbourne). There will be no afternoon tea, but drinks including coffee and snacks are available from the bar. Also, you might like to continue the conversation afterwards over dinner, to be served in the Charles Darwin Room. If you plan to attend, please be sure to reserve your seat(s) <https://us.list-manage.com/WWCFugjOZJS?e=b51f26e285&c2id=abfad12032102fd7ef83c546f4bb4d3b> with Humanitix. Here is the topic for the forum on 15 November: *Insect Consciousness: The Case For and Against* In 2024 a group of philosophers and zoologists pronounced The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness <https://us.list-manage.com/AHEQvGxxsgD?e=b51f26e285&c2id=abfad12032102fd7ef83c546f4bb4d3b>. This stated: The empirical evidence indicates at least a realistic possibility of conscious experience in all vertebrates (including reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) and many invertebrates (including, at minimum, cephalopod mollusks, decapod crustaceans, and insects). Is this a radical expansion of our recognition of the diversity of conscious experience in the natural world? Or is it all just bollox? Speaker: Andrew Barron <https://us.list-manage.com/16nJ3YB_FlB?e=b51f26e285&c2id=abfad12032102fd7ef83c546f4bb4d3b> Andrew Barron is Director of The Macquarie University Minds and Intelligences Research Centre. Andrew completed his PhD in Zoology at The University of Cambridge in 1999. His lab at Macquarie University studies honey bee neurobiology, specialising on understanding the incredible intelligence of bees and how sophisticated social behaviour is possible with such a tiny brain. His research is currently supported by awards from The Ian and Shirley Norman Foundation, The Australian Research Council, Horticulture Innovation and The Templeton World Charity Foundation. Peter Baldwin You received this email because you opted in to our mailing list *Our mailing address is:* Blackheath Philosophy Forum P.O. Box 212 Blackheath, NSW 2785 Australia Add us to your address book <https://blackheathphilosophy.us2.list-manage.com/vcard?u=100ba0a677e6b0d22363954fb&id=c6de0fbee9> [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <https://login.mailchimp.com/signup/email-referral/?aid=100ba0a677e6b0d22363954fb> unsubscribe from this list <https://blackheathphilosophy.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=100ba0a677e6b0d22363954fb&id=c6de0fbee9&t=b&e=b51f26e285&c=1ab8b6d424> | update subscription preferences <https://blackheathphilosophy.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=100ba0a677e6b0d22363954fb&id=c6de0fbee9&e=b51f26e285&c=1ab8b6d424> | view email in browser <https://mailchi.mp/0792434873eb/this-saturdays-talk-8573251?e=b51f26e285> --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
