Theatre of the Mind

Based on my book of the same name, this talk explores how the scientific approach to consciousness has, if not revolutionized, at the very least reoriented the search for understanding of human consciousness. Consciousness is a difficult topic to study or even to describe. But you know when you’re conscious and when you’re not. And you identify with your conscious mind.

The science reveals that this idea, that consciousness is pre-eminent among all the things our brains do, is a myth. Some go so far as to argue that this myth was probably created by …. consciousness itself.

The best thing about consciousness is that most of us have it, and there are numerous opportunities during the talk to do experiments on (or with) yourself.