![]() ![]() ![]() Patrick asks me if I would write a play only for robots. What he thinks of AI and why he no longer plays Go What translating poetry has in common with understanding consciousness What he finds the most terrifying result in neuroscience What he meant by: "If I were asked to create, from scratch and under duress, a universal mechanism for passing consciousness from parent to child, I would probably come up with something a bit like grafting a plant." ? Did this indicate that emotional responses are simply an aspect of the physical matter inside our skulls?” At one point, the surgeons touched a part of the brain that made her laugh. House repeatedly returns to a case in which a woman was undergoing brain surgery to address epilepsy. “Consider different translations of a poem: Each has something relevant to say, but none can entirely capture the essence. He’s written a collection of essays: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness on what we really don’t understand about consciousness. ![]() We once had a long chat on the rainy streets of Glasgow: what consciousness is, and touched on his work on mind-control bugs. What is consciousness? Patrick House's research focuses on the neuroscience of free will and how mind-control parasites altered rats' behaviour. ![]()
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