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| Consciousness; it's a science thing | Consciousness; it's a science thing |
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| TEDxCERN was a lot of fun. The speakers were amazing, covering cosmology, cancer cures, underwater earthquakes, gender politics, ignoble bras, the Higgs boson (of course) and more. I recommend a trawl through them all here. You may even spot me waving my arms in the air along with the choirs of College International Ferney-Voltaire and International School Geneva, and will.i.am on skype if you so wish. Hiranya Peiris from UCL kicked the whole thing off with a great talk about Planck data and cosmology. The four TED Ed animations are also well worth a watch. | TEDxCERN was a lot of fun. The speakers were amazing, covering cosmology, cancer cures, underwater earthquakes, gender politics, ignoble bras, the Higgs boson (of course) and more. I recommend a trawl through them all here. You may even spot me waving my arms in the air along with the choirs of College International Ferney-Voltaire and International School Geneva, and will.i.am on skype if you so wish. Hiranya Peiris from UCL kicked the whole thing off with a great talk about Planck data and cosmology. The four TED Ed animations are also well worth a watch. |
| But to my amazement, the one talk which I remember most, a couple of weeks later, was by a philosopher. I am pretty skeptical about philosophers on the whole, but then I think John Searle might be too. He makes a bold claim for the science of consciousness | But to my amazement, the one talk which I remember most, a couple of weeks later, was by a philosopher. I am pretty skeptical about philosophers on the whole, but then I think John Searle might be too. He makes a bold claim for the science of consciousness |
| You care about science, philosophy, music, art, whatever. It's no good if you're a zombie, or in a coma. Consciousness is number one. | You care about science, philosophy, music, art, whatever. It's no good if you're a zombie, or in a coma. Consciousness is number one. |
| and he delivers, with a brilliant talk, with so many quotable bits that I give up. Just watch it. | and he delivers, with a brilliant talk, with so many quotable bits that I give up. Just watch it. |
| And the rest. But not all at once, or your brain may explode. | And the rest. But not all at once, or your brain may explode. |
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