The future of the brain by Professor Steven Rose

Well-known and highly regarded scientist Professor Steven Rose gave this public lecture, entitled The future of the brain, on 4th November 2009 at the University of Bristol.

During his talk Professor Rose discussed the current state of neuroscience; what we now know, what we might expect to find out in the coming decades, and, in particular, how novel neuro-technologies - being developed to alleviate psychic distress - also to make possible an unprecedented degree of control over our minds and thoughts by the state. Professor Rose assessed these prospects and perils, and argued why he thinks the mind is wider than the brain.

It was co-hosted by 'Bristol Neuroscience' (bristol.ac.uk/neuroscience), and by the University in partnership with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, as one of the lectures marking the University's centenary year."

Category:

Science & Technology

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• bristol university
• centenary
• lecture
• neuroscience
• brain
• mind
• technology
• neuroethics
• MRI
• robotics
• artificial intelligence
• psychology

[Kaeralho]

2:38 skip tha talking

[pitupraveen]

Thumbs up if you came here after listening to Steven Rose and Richard Dawkins talk .............. :-)

[TheSonyb90]

candida

[nasdin94]

Thinking about the complexity of the brain and the trillions of possible permutations possible is going to make my brain explode any moment

[brindow1]

Thx Prof. Rose for this interesting lecture. You say brain and mind are seperate-and iv;e heard this said before..but is it ? If our 100 billion neurons are robotic and each of them DOES NOT KNOW of it's own consciousness, then I submit that our consciousness and perception of the world IS A RESULT of the total productivity of all our neurons .. in other words, our consciousness is a sort of freak outcome - and an unlikely thing to happen in the universe we find ourselves in.

[DhobyMick]

Absolutely brilliant!! Well done to the University of Bristol for providing us with the chance to see this lecture in its entirety.

[rl021786]

more young ppl my age need to watch this type of stuff

[rl021786]

more young ppl my age need to watch these this type of stuff