BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250811T182510EDT-0963KNIAwF@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250811T222510Z DESCRIPTION:Sailing the ghost ship: The case for radical free will\n\nDr. K ennon Sheldon\n\nDr. Kennon Sheldon is a professor of Psychological Scienc es at the University of Missouri\, USA. He received his B.S. in psychology from Duke University in 1981 and his Ph.D. in social/personality psycholo gy from the University of California\, Davis in 1992. He is known for his research on well-being\, motivation\, and goals. His prominent research qu estions include “Can happiness go up\, and then stay up?”\, “Can people be helped to pick life-goals that better express their developmental potenti als?” and “how can the concept of personal agency be reconciled with the c oncept of a deterministic universe?” He is the prolific author of more tha n 200 academic articles and book chapters. He is also the author of Optima l Human Being: An Integrated Multi-level Perspective\, and Self-determinat ion Theory in the Clinic: Motivating physical and mental health\, and he h as written and edited several other academic books such as Stability of Ha ppiness: Theories and Evidence on Whether Happiness can Change\, and Desig ning Positive Psychology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. He has been the recipient of several prestigious prizes and awards in psychology\, and wa s named one of the 20 most cited social psychologists in 2010 (controlling for career stage\; Nozek et al.\, PSPB).\n\nAbout the presentation\n\nI w ill summarize my forthcoming book (Basic Books). The argument for free wil l depends on the irreducible top-down effects of successively higher level s of organization within the universe\, including mental in-tentions\, ope rating at the personality level. Selection among intentions is made by the symbolic self\, which is the highest-level control process in the brain\, and which is observable as Default Mode Network functioning. The symbolic self\, located in system 2\, partially directs its own mind and is a comp lex momentary synthesis of narrative\, biological\, and situational inform ation. This moving synthesis is highly creative and its choices can never be fully predicted in advance by any scientific model (another argument fo r free will). Nevertheless\, appropriate multi-level models might come clo s-er and closer\, especially with the future help of artificial intelligen ce models that have access to peoples’ thoughts and feelings as well as th eir bodily condition. I will argue that the real question is not “are we f ree?” but rather\, “can we use our radical freedom wisely\, i.e. in servic e of our own and others’ thriving? ”\n\nPanel Discussion\n\nA panel will f ollow the presentation to advance precision convergence science in discuss ing how integra-tive multi-systems models of the self and decision making can be combined with computational approaches to studying human biology\, brain and society to both (1) develop a deep and end-to-end understanding of all multiscale mechanism involved and (2) inform better targeted and mo re impactful self-management/professional practice/innovation/intervention s/policy within and across sectors and jurisdictions underlying adaptive r eal world behavior and context. What we have called precision con-vergence for lifelong wellness and resilience in both health and disease condition s (concept paper here). The webinar is chaired by Prof. Laurette Dube\, Ch air and Scientific Director\, 9I Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economic (MCCHE)\, and co-chaired by Dr. Gillian Bartlett\, Associate Dean for Population Health and Outcomes Research at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri.\n DTSTART:20210505T150000Z DTEND:20210505T170000Z SUMMARY:Brain to Society: Decision and Behavior Seminar Series with Dr. Ken non Sheldon URL:/desautels/channels/event/brain-society-decision-a nd-behavior-seminar-series-dr-kennon-sheldon-330505 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR