let's 'see' our conscious / Stanislas Dehaene, neurologist

Barcelona !

Good day so far, I hope ?!

I do not know about you, but personally I do not watch TV and I love listening to some radio programs.

Yesterday, I was listening to  Stanislas Dehaene  on the French Radio called France Inter. He was talking about his new book  The Code of consciousness

Below are some of his comments he made:

- The brain can only process one image at a time.

- You could say that consciousness is the scientific version of the soul

- Awareness sets alight parts of the brain (seen via MRI) that synchronize and encode the same mental object at the same time.

- The non consciousness turns off these brain areas

- The brain changes state with awareness

Etc ... etc ... etc ...

Does that interests you ?

So you can listen to the interview, though it is in French

(  http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-la-tete-au-carre-stanislas-dehaene-neuroscientifique-grand-prix-inserm-2013  )

Summary of the book :

"Where do our perceptions, our feelings, our illusions and dreams come from ?

Where does the mechanical processing of information stops and where does awareness begin? 

Is the human mind sufficiently clever to understand its own existence?

Will the next step be a  machine conscious of its own limitations?

For over twenty years, Stanislas Dehaene analyzes the mechanisms of human thought.

In this book, he invites the reader into his laboratory, where ingenious experiments visualize the unconscious and dismantle the biological basis of consciousness.

Thanks to brain images and even electrodes inserted deep in the cortex, we are finally beginning to understand the algorithms that make us think.

Detecting the presence of consciousness, decode what a person, a baby or even an animal thinks, getting patients out of a coma, equip machines with a beginning of consciousness ...

“The Code of consciousness” opens extraordinary practical and intellectual perspectives by providing equal importance to the technological, philosophical, personal, and ethical resolution of the last mystery.

Stanislas Dehaene is a professor at the College de France where he holds a chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology and he is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. His work has been awarded various prizes.

He has published Les neurons de la lecture and La bosse des Maths, that were great success.

What eyes and what a smile this man has ! !

Those of curiosity, energy and happiness! At least on  the pictures!

I can only recommend you to read this book that I already have in my kindle!

Have a brilliant day !

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