Tatiana Chernigovskaya believes that it is time for a person to get to know his brain better, which means it is time to get to know himself better. And at the same time, realize the dangers associated with ignoring the many questions about the brain. Questions to which there are still no unambiguous answers.
In a series of lectures «Why do we need the brain» she will not only pose these questions, but also talk about the options for answers to them.
— Can we trust our brain?
— What is consciousness?
— Can consciousness be non-biological?
— Is silicone consciousness possible?
— Does the individual have freedom? Or are we zombies?
— What is memory?
The realities of the near future, in the readiness of humanity for which Chernigovskaya doubts, are approximately the following:
— manipulations with memory (memory implantation, memory erasure);
— making people by order of parents. Including by order from social groups;
— encroachments on the structure of memory and personality traits;
— creation of robots endowed with consciousness, which means robots that have their own goals, plans, emotions, altruism, egoism, awareness of themselves as a person;
— Fusion of people with computers. And many others…
Let’s try to understand and prepare with the help of lectures by Tatiana Chernigovskaya.
Maybe it’s not so scary?
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