Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories, where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered. His philosophical work has spearheaded metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially menta. Her fields of research include memetics, parapsychology, and consciousness.īernardo Kastrup is a philosopher and computer scientist. Susan Jane Blackmore is a writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. He specialises in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of psychology and metaphysics. Tim Crane is Head of the Philosophy Department at Central European University. Should we conclude that consciousness cannot be explained in terms of the physical? But if so what is the alternative? Or is it just a matter of time, and one day an AI machine will miraculously find itself experiencing the world, and its mere components will have soul? And no account of how the material stuff of the brain can be responsible for thought. No account of how the brain is able to create experience. Watch the full debate at t iai.tv/video/the-miracle-of-mind-consciousness?utm…ĭespite the advances in neuroscience and the rapidly extending capacity of computers, we still have no adequate theory of consciousness. Tim Crane, Bernardo Kastrup and Susan Blackmore debate the nature of consciousness.
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