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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and neuroscientist Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness to explore the hard problem of consciousness. Because the deep puzzles of consciousness can’t be solved head-on with existing scientific methods, Seth aims to gradually “dissolve” the problem by looking at levels of consciousness, the content of consciousness, and the mystery of the sense of self.

Together, they unpack several of the hard questions: How can physical beings have subjective experiences? How can we measure consciousness? Is consciousness the feeling of being alive? 

 The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Learn more and get involved at bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.

Footnotes:

• Consciousness
• Artificial Intelligence
• What Is It Like To Be A Bat? By Thomas Nagel  
• Psychiatric Injury
• Functional Neuroimaging
• Phenomenology Consciousness
• Functional Consciousness
• Behavioral Consciousness 
• Experiential Perception
• Pattern Recognition 
• Self-Driving Vehicles
• Qualia
• Hard Problem of Consciousness
• Panpsychism
• Élan Vital
• EEG, MRI, fMRI
• Locked-In Syndrome 
• Adrian Owen 
• Sense Perception

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