Every night, most of us enter into an unreal world of vivid, hallucinatory experiences. Importantly, this demonstrates that the brain, all by itself, can generate a convincing world of inner…
The nature of dreams is a topic that has been discussed for as long as humans could talk. But we are not the only species that dream. Research suggest that…
Hvordan oppstår bevisste opplevelser i hjernen? Innblikk i nyere naturvitenskapelig bevissthetsforskning. Foredrag ved professor ved Institutt for medisinske basalfag, Seksjon for fysiologi, Johan Frederik Storm. Arrangert av det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi,…
Does consciousness come in degrees? Public lecture by Andrew Lee.
While philosophers have investigated the topic of consciousness for hundreds of years, empirical research has only been a focus for the last decades. But in this time, what have we really learned about our internal experience of the world?
Many researchers believe it’s only a matter of time before we make an artificial intelligence that is smarter than humans in all areas. Most famous of these is Ray Kurzweil who predicts this will happen before the year 2050. But will this intelligence be conscious? What are the implications if it is or not?
We are happy to congratulate Sir Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/ The diploma and medal are presented to Roger Penrose today, 8…
What is consciousness? What do we mean when we say that someone or something is conscious? And what does this mean for neuroscience? There is nothing more familiar to us…
UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY CANCELED DUE TO CORONA. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE THE EVENT IN THE AUTUMN SEMESTER IF CONDITIONS ALLOW. The deep relation between human consciousness and moral…
Integrated Information Theory: What is it, how did it emerge, and how can we use it? After decades of progress in cognitive neuroscience consciousness is still eluding understanding. Are scientific…