Prof Colin Blakemore will be giving a talk at the Royal Institution asking the fundamental question why do we need ot be conscious of anything. For more information onProf. Blakemore click here.
Royal Institution
Friday 15 February 2008
8.00pm-9.00pm
Mammalian evolution was dominated by the engineering of vision - not through radical changes in the design of the eye, but through the gradual discovery by the brain of new ways of interpreting the retinal image to gain ever more comprehensive knowledge of the nature of the world. Surely human vision is the pinnacle of this process. But growing evidence is revealing that vision is largely ‘sleight-of-brain' - an extraordinary conjuring trick that creates the reassuring sense of reality out of almost nothing. Most of what we do with the information from our eyes - controlling our hands, guiding our posture, deciding what to look at - happens without awareness. One deep question arises: if we are genuinely aware of such a small fraction of what we see, why do need to be conscious of anything?
Tickets are free to Ri Full Members, £6 Associate Members and £9 non-members.
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