*Colloqui della Classe di Scienze - Anno Accademico 2017/2018*
Mercoledì 18 Aprile 2018
ore 15:00
Sala Stemmi Palazzo della Carovana
*Prof. Marcello Massimini*
(Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Milan)
*Titolo: “Consciousness: from theory to bedside**”*
*Abstract:*
We normally assess another individual’s level of consciousness based on her/his ability to interact with the surrounding environment. However, we know that conscious experience can be entirely generated within the brain in the absence of any interaction with the external world; this happens almost every night while we dream. For this reason, consciousness may go undetected in brain-injured patients who are unable to communicate. A recently formulated theory suggests that consciousness depends on a physical system’s ability to integrate information. Today, theory-driven empirical measures allow to detect the presence of consciousness also in the brain of patients who are fully disconnected from the external world. Will theories and measures help us, one day, to understand how the jelly matter of the brain can generate the universe we dream of?
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