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SUMMARY:Decoding Consciousness - Professor Geraint Rees\, UCL
DTSTART:20071205T183000Z
DTEND:20071205T193000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jerome Moulin
DESCRIPTION:Royal Society Crick Prize Lecture\nBy Professor Geraint Rees M
 RCP PhD\, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience\, University College London\
 n\n \n\nSynopsis: \n\nEverything we know about the world comes to us throu
 gh our brain. Yet for each of us our own conscious mental world of thought
 s and feelings is isolated and private. Despite several centuries of resea
 rch on the brain\, communication through language or gesture remains the o
 nly way we can discover the conscious thoughts and experiences of others. 
 But if thoughts and feelings arise from patterns of neural activity in the
  brain\, then it should be possible to directly decode such conscious expe
 riences from brain activity alone. Recent advances in brain imaging techno
 logy raise just such a possibility\, by showing that it is possible to acc
 urately decode a person's conscious experience based only on non-invasive 
 measurements of their brain activity. Such brain reading' abilities may tr
 ansform our understanding of the brain and provide important new medical i
 nsights\, but also raise important ethical issues concerning the privacy o
 f personal thought.\n\nThis lecture is FREE. No advance booking or registr
 ation required.\n\nThis event will be webcast live at www.royalsoc.ac.uk/l
 ive/ \n\n
LOCATION:The Royal Society\, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace\, London SW1Y 5AG
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