Our consciousness and our self-awareness create the illusion that we are more than our biology, but is it just an illusion?
Watch this video to hear from professors with beliefs spanning from Christian to atheist, and expertise ranging from genetics to robotics.
Our consciousness and our self-awareness create the illusion that we are more than our biology, but is it just an illusion? Watch this video to hear from professors with beliefs spanning from Christian to atheist, and expertise ranging from genetics to robotics.
PRESENTERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE):
Charmaine Royal |Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke
Alan Lightman | Professor of the Practice of the Humanities, MIT
Ian Hutchinson | Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
Roald Hoffmann | Nobel Prize Winning Chemist,Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell
Ivana Nikolic Hughes | Director of Frontiers of Science and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of Chemistry, Columbia
Ard Louis | Professor of Theoretical Physics, Oxford
Sean Carroll | Theoretical Cosmologist, CalTech
Kenneth Miller | Professor of Biology, Brown
Rosalind Picard | Director of Affective Computing Research, Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Praveen Sethupathy | Assistant Professor of Genetics, UNC