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"Free Will and Mind Reading" – open lecture by Prof. John-Dylan Haynes

Data: 22.11.2018
Czas rozpoczęcia: 6.30 p.m.
Miejsce: JU Faculty of Law and Administration, ul. Krupnicza 33a
Organizator: Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Jagiellonian University, City of Kraków
Witryna internetowa wydarzenia: www.wielkiepytania.pl
"Free Will and Mind Reading" – open lecture by Prof. John-Dylan Haynes

How do our cognitive processes influence our free will? How does our brain encode our experiences and thoughts? Can neural scans show such activities of the brain as decision making, memorising or imagining? Is it possible for the modern science to predict the decisions we are going to make? This and other issues related to free will in the context of brain imaging will be discussed by Prof. John Dylan Haynes, Director of the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging.

Prof. Haynes’ research focuses on mechanisms that form the basis for human cognitive processes, such as imagination, planning, and decision making. He is also interested in the neuronal background of consciousness. Haynes’ articles, published in the most prestigious scientific journals have already been cited several thousand times.

John Dylan Haynes obtained his PhD from the University of Bremen in 2003 for a thesis on neural correlates of visual awareness. He worked at the University of Plymouth, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, and the University College London. In 2005, he started his own research at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. In 2006, he obtained professorship for his studies on the theory and analysis of brain signals. Since 2009 he has been the Director of the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging. He is also a very successful science communicator, whose studies have attracted a lot of media attention.

The meeting with the eminent brain researcher is part of the series “Big Questions in Kraków”, a joint project by the Copernicus Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, the Jagiellonian University and the City of Kraków in which science is presented as an important part of culture. The lectures address questions which have been asked for centuries, inspiring great writers, musicians and artists.

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