Matter, Mind, and Consciousness

The physical description of reality provided by contemporary science is one of stunning beauty and powerful utility. And the biological sciences fit nicely into this model, with life understood in terms of aggregates of molecular components, and consciousness hypothesized to somehow emerge in association with neural complexity. Is this the full story, or at least close to it?  There are reasons to believe that much more is going on, more interesting and weird than our current understanding of biophysical science provides us. A true scientific revolution may accompany the transition to the next stage of deeper understanding of consciousness, the mind-brain connection, and the very nature of physical reality.

Speaker: David Presti, UC Berkeley