SDIS Monthly Lecture Series: Intersections of Physical Science with Studies of Consciousness

Program Type:

Community Engagement, Science/STEAM

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults

Event Details

Paul L. Nunez, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of biomedical engineering at Tulane University and currently works on brain physics issues with the Cognitive Science Department of the University of California at Irvine.

Dr. Nunez will talk about sciences associated with the consciousness challenge: the "hidden reality" imposed by modern physics, spacetime, complexity, multiscale measures, cell information, integrated information theory, and white matter (“small world”) disease. Neuroscientists study the “easy problem”—the so-called neural correlates of consciousness revealed with measures like electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). But such efforts fall short of addressing the deep mystery of consciousness itself, the famous “hard problem” that has perplexed scientists and philosophers for centuries.

Does consciousness arise exclusively from interactions in brain tissue (materialism)? Or does consciousness originate in some more fundamental level of reality (dualism)?

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82355865049?pwd=L6qb7N092nB6M1hQnKNu5bY4atd78p.1
Meeting ID: 823 5586 5049 / Passcode: SDIS

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