Antonio Damasio & Anil Seth, The Mysteries of Consciousness
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
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Doctor and researcher Antonio Damasio speaks with neuroscientist and educator Anil Seth about the latest discoveries in the field of neuroscience, which are shedding light on the mysteries of consciousness and opening up new viewpoints from which to think what makes us humans.
Consciousness is one of the great mysteries of human beings. Since it has been seen for decades as one of the great challenges of neuroscientific research, centers around the world are exclusively devoted to researching further into this phenomenon which, even today, is still generating more questions than answers. According to the latest discoveries, the brain acts like great prediction machine that has the task of making sense of all the perceptions it receives and its earlier experiences, although this does not mean that the world is really the way we see it.
Will we even know how this feature of the mind has appeared and evolved? What distinguishes human consciousness from the consciousness found in other species?
The event will be in English with simultaneous translation into Catalan.
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