{"id":161945,"date":"2023-04-11T22:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/can-consciousness-be-explained-royal-institute-of-philosophy-annual-debate-2023"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:23:53","slug":"can-consciousness-be-explained-royal-institute-of-philosophy-annual-debate-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/can-consciousness-be-explained-royal-institute-of-philosophy-annual-debate-2023","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCan Consciousness be Explained?\u201d \u2014 Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Can Consciousness be Explained?&quot; - Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate 2022\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vjvLQ7GKxBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How can flesh and blood brains give rise to pains and pleasures, dreams and desires, sights and sounds? Some believe this \u2018hard problem\u2019 of consciousness can never be solved. Can we expect any breakthroughs as the science of the mind progresses?<\/p>\n<p>Our annual debate this year considers whether the problem of consciousness really is intractable. Our illustrious panel is neuroscientist Anil Seth and philosophers Louise Antony, Maja Spener and Philip Goff, with the BBC\u2019s Ritula Shah chairing.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers.<br \/> Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex.<br \/> Louise Antony is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<br \/> Maja Spener is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.<br \/> Philip Goff is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University.<\/p>\n<p>Chair.<br \/> Ritula Shah is a journalist and presenter of The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can flesh and blood brains give rise to pains and pleasures, dreams and desires, sights and sounds? Some believe this \u2018hard problem\u2019 of consciousness can never be solved. Can we expect any breakthroughs as the science of the mind progresses? Our annual debate this year considers whether the problem of consciousness really is intractable. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}