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Lifelong learners know there are still plenty of things left in this world they don’t know about \u2014 things that are absolutely dazzling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those in Transylvania professor emeritus Jack Furlong’s current discussion group are surely being dazzled by what they\u2019re finding out about the sensory realms of animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furlong has brought his University of Kentucky Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course \u2014 Conscious Creatures Everywhere? Reading “An Immense World”<\/a> \u2014 to Transy’s campus. They\u2019re discussing a book written by tonight\u2019s Kenan speaker<\/a>, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong (get free tickets<\/a> and watch live<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group, which meets Wednesdays through next month in the Carpenter Academic Center, has 25 members including co-facilitator and professor emeritus Meg Upchurch, several other faculty and a few Transylvania graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furlong, who retired after teaching philosophy at Transy for 28 years, is enthusiastic about sharing the sense of amazement both he and Yong have found in animal perception outside the scope of human experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cites an example from “An Immense World” (many others abound): \u201cIf a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton,” Yong writes. “They can see things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“An Immense World” provides the kind of astonishment lifelong learners are after. “Nobody would pick up this book unless they were curious,” Furlong said. “It sparks a sense of wonder.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This OLLI course for ages 50+ is a reminder that the value of education after graduation is embedded in the DNA of Transylvania and the liberal arts in general. “We can model for Transy\u2019s students the fact that shared intellectual curiosity can be enjoyed lifelong,” Furlong said. “Alternatively, being in the Transylvania environment, we may recall key aspirations of our youth that have survived as part of our identity.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furlong said he’d like current Pioneers to be inspired by discussion groups like this and then go on to be lifelong learners themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for this particular class, he\u2019d actually picked out the book as the topic before Yong was chosen as the Kenan Lecturer \u2014 so being able to tie that in was quite a bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday morning after the lecture, Furlong’s daughter Ellen will join the author on stage<\/a> from 9:30-10:20 a.m. in Carrick Theater for an informal follow-up talk open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yong’s \u201cAn Immense World\u201d earned a spot on the New York Times\u2019 10 Best Books list and ties into Transylvania’s 2023-24 Creative Intelligence<\/a> theme of Skeptical Odysseys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going beyond what we once thought was the only truth, thinking critically and not being afraid to ask the big questions are all liberal arts values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furlong said: “Socrates\u2019 famous line captures what I believe links UK\u2019S OLLI and Transylvania, as well as our own younger and elder selves: ‘The unexamined life is not worth living for human beings.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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