Guest Speaker April 24 to Discuss "Is Reality Always Virtual?"

James Blascovich, co-director of the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior in the University of California Santa Barbara Department Of Psychology, will speak at 2 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the College of Business Building room 357.

Blascovich is the guest of the Institute for Prospective Cognition (IPC) at Illinois State University and will speak on "Products of Consciousness: Is Reality Always Virtual?"  The talk, which will be followed by a one-hour reception in the COB atrium, is part of the "Virtually Human: Science, Art, and the 21st Century Self" speaker series organized by the IPC.  More information about the IPC and speaker series can be found at http://my.ilstu.edu/~jsjorda/IPC_Virtually_Human_Speaker_Series_page.html

The speaker series is sponsored by the Sage Foundation, The College of Arts and Science, PSI-CHI/SPA and the Departments of Biology, Philosophy and Psychology.

The Institute for Prospective Cognition is committed to the mission of helping to better understand our prospective abilities and the ways they are coupled with the larger scale prospective dynamics of groups and culture.