In times of astonishing scientific and technological achievements it becomes most evident how extraordinary human brains are. Despite the immense effort done in the last decades we are still far from understanding how such complex structure manages to orchestrate all aspects of our lives. The brain interprets the environment not only based on sensory information, but also integrating stored knowledge and previous experience to actually construct a world of our own. In this talk, I will introduce some basic concepts and will try to instigate discussion by presenting some demonstrations on how this integration process occurs at a basic level. This will lead us to the debate of how a physical world can translate into a psychological one, of how a brain can generate a mind.
In times of astonishing scientific and technological achievements it becomes most evident how extraordinary human brains are. Despite the immense effort done in the last decades we are still far from understanding how such complex structure manages to orchestrate all aspects of our lives. The brain interprets the environment not only based on sensory information, but also integrating stored knowledge and previous experience to actually construct a world of our own. In this talk, I will introduce some basic concepts and will try to instigate discussion by presenting some demonstrations on how this integration process occurs at a basic level. This will lead us to the debate of how a physical world can translate into a psychological one, of how a brain can generate a mind.
