Outside the garage door

Behind the apartment building is the entry to the two garages for the residents' cars. Between the drive way and the fence separating us from the neighbouring house is a garden. For the first ten years or so the planting was somewhat uninspired and had become in places overgrown while in other places plants had died. Rather more than a year ago, a new owner arrived and has energised the Body Corporate, and has been plying his gardening and landscaping skills to great effect. The view out through the garage door is much more attractive.

Second day of the conference started with a really stimulating philosophical presentation by Prof Grant Gillett. He started his career as a neurosurgeon with an interest in philosophy, and is now head of the bioethics centre in Dunedin. He gave a presentation linking brain function with spirituality and the soul, and religious beliefs in the context of psychiatry and the issue of delusions. Very thought provoking. 

This afternoon, Prof Warren Brookbanks  (prof of law at AUT in Auckland) addressed similar issues in a paper linking religious fanaticism, pale criminality and responsibility attribution. So much to think about. I left after that and have arrived home early to relax before going back to the conference dinner, taking S.