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Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. Part theater of the absurd and part neuroscience fiction, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s work captures the splintering between what we perceive and what we feel as our brains grapple with multiple layers of reality. Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, one of the world’s leading sleep researchers, casts new light on the science of the mind, probing where and how consciousness is generated in the brain. Watch this spellbinding conversation between Kaufman, Tononi, and moderator Alan Alda as they explore and explain the art, science, and mystery of consciousness.Learn More
TOPICS: Art & Science, Mind & Brain
TAGS: 2010, Alan Alda, alien hand syndrome, art, Being John Malkovich, brains, Charlie Kaufman, cognition, cognitive, consciousness, Director, Explored and Explained, filmmaker, full program, Giulio Tononi, how consciousness is generated, identity, layers of reality, life experience, mystery of consciousness, neuroscience, New York City, NYC, science of consciousness, screenwriter, Self, split-brain, unconscious memories
PLAYLISTS: Science & the Arts
Video Duration: 01:31:36
Original Program Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. Part theater of the absurd and part neuroscience fiction, the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s work captures the splintering between what we perceive and what we feel as our brains grapple with multiple layers of reality. Neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, one of the world’s leading sleep researchers, casts new light on the science of the mind, probing where and how consciousness is generated in the brain. Watch this spellbinding conversation between Kaufman, Tononi, and moderator Alan Alda as they explore and explain the art, science, and mystery of consciousness.Learn More
TOPICS: Art & Science, Biology & Origins of Life, Earth & Environment, Mind & Brain, Physics & Math, Science in Society, Science Unplugged, Space & The Cosmos, Technology & Engineering, Your Daily Equation, Youth & Education
TAGS: 2010, Alan Alda, alien hand syndrome, art, Being John Malkovich, brains, Charlie Kaufman, cognition, cognitive, consciousness, Director, Explored and Explained, filmmaker, full program, Giulio Tononi, how consciousness is generated, identity, layers of reality, life experience, mystery of consciousness, neuroscience, New York City, NYC, science of consciousness, screenwriter, Self, split-brain, unconscious memories, 2010, Alan Alda, alien hand syndrome, art, Being John Malkovich, brains, Charlie Kaufman, cognition, cognitive, consciousness, Director, Explored and Explained, filmmaker, full program, Giulio Tononi, how consciousness is generated, identity, layers of reality, life experience, mystery of consciousness, neuroscience, New York City, NYC, science of consciousness, screenwriter, Self, split-brain, unconscious memories
PLAYLISTS: Science & the Arts
Video Duration: 01:31:36
Original Program Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010
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