Events / MindCORE Seminar: Lucia Melloni

MindCORE Seminar: Lucia Melloni

November 13, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

online offering

Lucia Melloni
Department of Neurology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

 

The 3 Cs: Collaborating to Crack Consciousness

 

Every day when we fall asleep we lose consciousness, we are not there. And then, every morning, when we wake up, we regain it. What mechanisms give rise to consciousness, and how can we explain consciousness in the realm of the physical world of atoms and matter?  For centuries, philosophers and scientists have aimed to crack this mystery.  Much progress has been made in the past decades to understand how consciousness is instantiated in the brain, yet critical questions remain: can we develop a consciousness meter? Are computers conscious? What about other animals and babies? We have embarked in a large-scale, multicenter project to test, in the context of an open science, adversarial collaboration, two of the most prominent theories: Integrated information theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) theory. We are collecting over 500 datasets including invasive and non-invasive recordings of the human brain, i.e.. fMRI, MEG and ECoG. We hope this project will enable theory-driven discoveries and further explorations that will help us better understand how consciousness fits inside the human brain.

 

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