Tag: Consciousness
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Interview with Elena Giulia Rossi
Elena Giulia Rossi lives and works in Rome as a researcher, a Professor of Theories of Multimedia Arts, and Editorial Director of the online editorial platform Arshake. Reinventing Technology. After living, studying and working in Chicago for three years (1999-2002), she returned to Italy to further her research in contemporary art, where her…
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Interview with Luis Miguel Girão
Luis Miguel Girão founder of Artshare, the NATO Art Expert, is a researcher generating support for EU and Transatlantic policy making in the field of the crossings of art, science and technology. He is a transdisciplinary artist developing applications of technology as tools for artistic expression focusing at the moment on bioelectromagnetism. He is…
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Interview with Margarete Jahrmann
Margarete Jahrmann is an artist, curator and researcher in activism, urban play & arts with an international record of exhibitions and conferences. Jahrmann has received major media arts awards, such as the distinction in interactive arts, PrixArsElectronica 2003 and the software arts award, Transmediale, Berlin 2004. Since 2006 she is Professor for Game Design at…
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Future energy
Future Energy is a series of startup-investor pitch events that connects entrepreneurs, researchers, and private investors in the energy and clean-tech industries to develop and commercialize radical solutions to the world’s energy challenges. The Problem Step change in Energy demand – In coming decades, the world will need huge amounts of energy to support population and economic…
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David Deutsch on our place in the universe
[ITA] Il leggendario scienziato David Deutsch lascia per un attimo da parte la fisica teorica per discutere di un problema più urgente: la sopravvivenza della nostra specie. Il primo passo per risolvere il riscaldamento globale, dice, è ammettere che abbiamo un problema. [ENG] David Deutsch’s 1997 book “The Fabric of Reality” laid the groundwork for…
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Personhood Beyond the Human
We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique…