SDIS Monthly Lecture Series: A Scientific Approach to Silent Consciousness

Program Type:

Community Engagement, Science/STEAM

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

You are cordially invited to the San Diego Independent Scholars Lecture at the North University Community Library (8820 Judicial Drive).

 

This month features:

 

Bernard J. Baars, PhD

January 11, 2025

1:30 - 3:00 pm PST

 

A Scientific Approach to Silent Consciousness

 

Bernard J. Baars, PhD is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego. He is best known as the originator of the Global Workspace Theory (GWT), a concept of human cognitive architecture, the cortex, and consciousness, and is one of the founders of the modern science of consciousness. GWT provides a first approximation to the empirical understanding of the cortex. Dr. Baars will focus on the empirical evidence for the existence of “silent” consciousness and suggest a principled method to study the psychophysics of it. As Wilder Penfield wrote, “cortex is the organ of mind.”

 

 

If unable to join in person, please click the following link to join the zoom webinar.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82355865049?pwd=L6qb7N092nB6M1hQnKNu5bY4atd78p.1
Meeting ID: 823 5586 5049 / Passcode: SDIS

Accessibility

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