HBP International Conference: Understanding Consciousness A scientific quest for the 21st century
In-Person Event
Jun 21 - 22, 2018
Barcelona, Catalonia, ES
OVERVIEW
HBP International Conference: Understanding Consciousness A scientific quest for the 21st century is organized by Human Brain Project (HBP) and will be held during Jun 21 - 22, 2018 at CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Course Description:
How does our subjective experience emerge from the brain? How does consciousness relate to the physical world? These age-old, deep questions are now at last being addressed directly and broadly by neuroscience and will become crucial in the decades to come.
The spectrum of consciousness-related conundrums is rapidly expanding: we are saving islands of human brain from devastating injuries, growing cerebral organoids in a vat, and building intelligent machines that perform faster and better than any healthy subject, just to mention a few.
Where does consciousness arise? Where is the boundary between insentient matter and a spark of subjectivity? Society needs to be scientifically and culturally prepared to face these emerging questions.
To do so, an approach with the broadest scope is needed: diverse theoretical frameworks, brain anatomy, physiology, and chemistry across scales and species, detailed and large-scale computer simulations, deep learning, neuromorphic computing, robotics, clinical neurology, anaesthesiology, psychology, behavioural, computational, and philosophical analysis must interact and blend on a single infrastructure.
These ingredients are naturally present in the Human Brain Project, and this workshop, stirred by world-leading scholars in the field, is where they come together for the first time in this multidisciplinary setting.
Speakers: Larissa Albantakis, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Wolf Singer, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Karl Friston, Olaf Blanke, Fabrice Wendling, Ned Block, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Sean Hill, Melanie Wilke, Rodolfo R. Llinás, Nicholas Schiff.
Time: 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
Course Description:
How does our subjective experience emerge from the brain? How does consciousness relate to the physical world? These age-old, deep questions are now at last being addressed directly and broadly by neuroscience and will become crucial in the decades to come.
The spectrum of consciousness-related conundrums is rapidly expanding: we are saving islands of human brain from devastating injuries, growing cerebral organoids in a vat, and building intelligent machines that perform faster and better than any healthy subject, just to mention a few.
Where does consciousness arise? Where is the boundary between insentient matter and a spark of subjectivity? Society needs to be scientifically and culturally prepared to face these emerging questions.
To do so, an approach with the broadest scope is needed: diverse theoretical frameworks, brain anatomy, physiology, and chemistry across scales and species, detailed and large-scale computer simulations, deep learning, neuromorphic computing, robotics, clinical neurology, anaesthesiology, psychology, behavioural, computational, and philosophical analysis must interact and blend on a single infrastructure.
These ingredients are naturally present in the Human Brain Project, and this workshop, stirred by world-leading scholars in the field, is where they come together for the first time in this multidisciplinary setting.
Speakers: Larissa Albantakis, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Wolf Singer, Pieter R. Roelfsema, Karl Friston, Olaf Blanke, Fabrice Wendling, Ned Block, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Sean Hill, Melanie Wilke, Rodolfo R. Llinás, Nicholas Schiff.
Time: 9:00 am to 8:00 pm
Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.
KEY DATES
21 Jun, 2018
Event Start Date
22 Jun, 2018
Event End Date
SPECIALITIES
NeurologyPsychologySUGGESTED HOTELS
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