#wolfsinger

✨“Consciousness doesn’t just arise in one specific location🗺️ in the brain.”🧠 In the Zoomposium with renowned neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer, we explore one of science’s greatest unresolved questions: How does consciousness arise—and can the brain understand itself? Singer describes consciousness not as a “thing” or a center in the brain, but as a highly dynamic state of activity in the cerebral cortex. Complex patterns of excitation, feedback loops, and self-organized neural processes are crucial here. Without the modulating systems of the brainstem, the necessary dynamics are missing—but that by no means implies that “consciousness resides” there. The talk addresses fundamental questions in neuroscience and philosophy: 🔹 What are the neural correlates of consciousness? 🔹 Can the “hard problem of consciousness” be explained naturalistically? 🔹 Could complex feedback mechanisms eventually lead to strong AI? 🔹 Is free will merely a social construct? 🔹 Do quantum effects possibly play a role in the brain after all? At the intersection of neurobiology, philosophy of mind, self-organization, and AI research, a fascinating perspective emerges on what is perhaps the greatest mystery of all: conscious experience. 📺 Watch the discussion: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

🧠 Consciousness & Connection🔗 – How Does Unity Emerge in Experience✨? Our consciousness appears coherent—yet countless processes run in parallel within the brain. How does this become a unified experience? One possible answer lies in temporal connection: Consciousness arises where elements are dynamically linked together. 👉 The so-called binding problem describes precisely this challenge: How can the brain flexibly connect “anything with anything”—perceptions, thoughts, memories? In the Zoomposium with Wolf Singer, we explore this question from a neuroscientific perspective. 🔍 In focus: • How do neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) arise? • Can the “hard problem” be explained naturalistically? • What role do dynamic networks and self-organizing systems play? • Is our sense of free will an illusion? • And: Could such mechanisms form the basis for strong AI? 💡 Central idea: Consciousness is not a static state—but a highly dynamic process of temporal integration. 📺 Watch the discussion: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 More information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

🧠 Cultural Evolution – Why Brains Must Interact 🧑‍🧑‍🧒 Is understanding a single brain really enough to explain consciousness? Or does the crucial element emerge only between us—in our interactions? The perspective of cultural evolution suggests that the key lies not in isolated brains, but in connected individuals. Meaning, consciousness, and even decision-making processes unfold only through interaction—in communication, exchange, and shared contexts. In this Zoomposium with Wolf Singer, we will explore this very question in depth: from the neural correlates of consciousness and free will to the limits of artificial intelligence. 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

🐦 Are birds conscious beings? Spoiler: Yes. 😉 The birds in our garden are not only pretty to look at—they are conscious, intelligent, and astonishingly autonomous. As Wolf Singer emphasizes in our Zoomposium: It would be difficult to deny that they are conscious beings. The big difference between them and us humans? 👉 Birds don't have a hard problem of consciousness. 👉 They don't think about qualia. 👉 For them, consciousness is simply there. So perhaps consciousness isn't the real mystery—it's our human urge to constantly try to explain it. 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

🧠🤔 The mystery of consciousness – can we ever imitate it? Is it enough to simulate a brain to create consciousness? Or does experience remain something fundamentally different? In the Zoomposium with Wolf Singer, it becomes clear that a brain cannot simply be replicated or copied. With around 10¹⁴ individually formed synapses, it is a highly complex, nonlinear system – impossible to measure completely or “construct” in a stable manner. Consciousness does not arise on the drawing board. It requires self-organization, learning, and dynamic adaptation. This raises the question of whether strong AI can ever be more than functional simulation – and whether the brain can fully understand itself. A conversation about neural correlates of consciousness, self-organization, free will, and the limits of artificial intelligence – at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, and physics. 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

🧠 Can the brain understand itself? 🔁 How does consciousness function as a self-organizing system? 💡 And what might the future of evolutionarily inspired AI look like—one that is not programmed but “grown”? 📺 Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

⛔ The limits of our decisions – A look at system processes 📈 How free are our decisions really 🤔 ? Wolf Singer describes how our actions are limited by the dynamics of complex systems – whether in the brain, in economics, or in politics. Freedom does not mean arbitrariness, but rather choice within a neurobiologically predetermined “space of possibility.” 📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4 📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/