Oct. 14, 2025: "The Science of Consciousness" with Professor Mark Reimers

October 14, 2025

The October Academy presentation featured guest speaker Mark Reimers.

How do the billions of neurons in your head, tangled together like jello spaghetti, produce feeling, determination, love and laughter? Waking up, deliberation, remembering, effortful thinking, inner conflict, and day-dreaming are all aspects of consciousness. We will discuss how studies of brain activity during these kinds of experience can help clarify these questions. Will humans of the future understand consciousness? What difference could that make to how they live? Will the science of consciousness lead to enlightenment and understanding or to precise effective Machiavellian manipulation?

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