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Scientific Controversies (Sci Con) is a series of conversations between scientists hosted by PW Director of Sciences Janna Levin.
Kick off Memorial Day Weekend with Scientific Controversies 11! Expect a “consciousness bonfire” in the garden until late, telescopic views of the summer sky, and general Memorial Day good vibes.
Experientially, consciousness is a subjective, internal movie, a virtual reality of the mind – the most elaborate virtual reality, replete with images, sounds, smells, tactility, memories. Conscious entities can invent, imagine, visualize and dream. The existence of consciousness seems to qualify as a scientific fact. After all, I observe my own consciousness. But is the observation just an illusion? Is consciousness reducible to elementary biology? Or is consciousness itself somehow fundamental or even universal to every material thing?
Director of Sciences Janna Levin invites neuroscientist Christof Koch (President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science) and philosopher David Chalmers (Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at New York University) to ask: Do androids actually dream of electric sheep?
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Charmers always approaches the speculative reality that many know is true but that always slips beyond proof. Which is: a machine-AI-like gestalt cognitive dictatorship collective consciousness distributed between all so-called humans. Or what we’ve been told ab’t what it means to be human. Something like a “Christof” Koch from The Tru-man Show or the updated version, The Tru-MP Celebrity App. Mar-a-Largo Casablanca Reality Show.