As previously reported, Prof. Dr. Freerk Huisken (Wikipedia) professor emeritus of the University of Bremen, will give a talk here in Berlin tomorrow. He was invited by the "Sozialreferat" of the AStA FU, the students' governing body of our university.
Unfortunately, every information about this guy is in German, but believe me it's pretty hair-raising. If you know German, you can read the content of his talk in an article (RTF) on his website, or you can listen to a previous recording from a different city. He basically puts up a strawman of some theoretical brain-philosopher by quoting mainly German neuroscientists such as Roth and Singer. This strawman is so absurd and ludicrous and the examples he quotes are so poor, that I can only assume that the quotes, if they indeed are correct, must have been taken completely out of context. Basically, this strawman claims that humans have no free will, are entirely predictable and determined, can thus have no responsibility nor culpability. Of course, this extreme form of determinism is utter nonsense.
He then beats down the strawman to further his social-science agenda: the relativism of scientific knowledge and the postulation of a non-material mind which exists somehwere outside of the brain (i.e., dualism).

He puts all of this under the title: "Brain scientists are mobilizing - against reason" and calls brain science "mental imperialism". Tough stuff! He even goes so far to use the word "mental dilapidation" in conjunction with brain science and implies a hidden fascist agenda underlying brain scientists who subscribe to the notion of a brain generating its own mind.

If you have the time you definitely should attend the lecture and give this wacko a hard time. It will be at 6pm at Hörsaal 1A, Silberlaube (Habelschwerdterallee 45, U Dahlem-Dorf).
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend since I'm leaving town for a handball tournament in Brazil a few hours before the circus commences.