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199: Connecting the Mind and Brain: The Science Behind How Cells and Chemicals Create Consciousness - Dr. Christof Koch
199: Connecting the Mind and Brain: The Science Behind How Cells and Chemicals Create Consciousness - Dr. Christof Koch
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38 minutes
Released:
Dec 29, 2014
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Podcast episode
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Dr. Christof Koch is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. He received his Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Tubingen in Germany and his PhD in Nonlinear Information Processing from the Max Planck Institute. Christof worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT before joining the faculty at Caltech where he remained for about 25 years. In 2011, he accepted his current post as Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Christof is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.
Released:
Dec 29, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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