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 consciousness
07:07   Rupert: Analog computers as possible framework for machine consciousness
07:57   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 hope
15:00   Audience: if Science and Faith both seek truth, they must converge
15:41   Rupert: we all have implicit biases; materialists in particular have huge blindspots
17:31   Audience: Truth emerging like a flower
17:54   Rupert: Institutionalized science, grants, educational conformity
19:32   David: How can you do it?
19:36   Rupert: I was forced to work independently, not recommended
21:04   Rupert's excommunication by Nature Editor John Maddox
22:29   Rupert: Pluralism in politics, but not science "we know the truth"
24:13   David: Questioning establishment power
25:32   Audience: A rebirth of creative thinking?
25:43   Rupert: Trouble with the academic system; funding reform; medical system fatigue; alternative therapies
29:10   Audience: Morphic resonance, homeopathy, interpersonal neurobiology, setting science free
30:17   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 fixed
34:58   Rupert: Martin Reese's simpler hypothesis "get's rid of God"
36:09   Rupert: Stars being conscious too much for Martin Reese
37:48   Rupert: Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, creation story, popularized science, natural philosophy