Conference 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.

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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/228887-1?pid=154

Prices:
Regular Registration: EUR 300.0
Student / Trainee Registration: EUR 230.0

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