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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
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BI 168 Frauke Sandig and Eric Black w Alex Gomez-Marin: AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
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115 minutes
Released:
Jun 2, 2023
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Podcast episode
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This is one in a periodic series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routines. Might this feature of art potentially change our scientific attitudes and perspectives?
Frauke Sandig and Eric Black recently made the documentary film AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness, which profiles six researchers studying consciousness from different perspectives. The film is filled with rich visual imagery and conveys a sense of wonder and awe in trying to understand subjective experience, while diving deep into the reflections of the scientists and thinkers approaching the topic from their various perspectives.
This isn't a "normal" Brain Inspired episode, but I hope you enjoy the discussion!
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
Umbrella Films
0:00 - Intro
19:42 - Mechanistic reductionism
45:33 - Changing views during lifetime
53:49 - Did making the film alter your views?
57:49 - ChatGPT
1:04:20 - Materialist assumption
1:11:00 - Science of consciousness
1:20:49 - Transhumanism
1:32:01 - Integrity
1:36:19 - Aesthetics
1:39:50 - Response to the film
Support the show to get full episodes and join the Discord community.
This is one in a periodic series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routines. Might this feature of art potentially change our scientific attitudes and perspectives?
Frauke Sandig and Eric Black recently made the documentary film AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness, which profiles six researchers studying consciousness from different perspectives. The film is filled with rich visual imagery and conveys a sense of wonder and awe in trying to understand subjective experience, while diving deep into the reflections of the scientists and thinkers approaching the topic from their various perspectives.
This isn't a "normal" Brain Inspired episode, but I hope you enjoy the discussion!
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness
Umbrella Films
0:00 - Intro
19:42 - Mechanistic reductionism
45:33 - Changing views during lifetime
53:49 - Did making the film alter your views?
57:49 - ChatGPT
1:04:20 - Materialist assumption
1:11:00 - Science of consciousness
1:20:49 - Transhumanism
1:32:01 - Integrity
1:36:19 - Aesthetics
1:39:50 - Response to the film
Released:
Jun 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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