Sunday 24th April | 1- 4pm | Free reserve place
RSVP is required in advance for this event.
Unpicking complex ideas and theories in a down to earth low key environment!
The theory that the human brain is a "prediction machine" has enjoyed growing support from neuroscience research communities in recent years, with some going so far as to describe conscious experience as a "deception" or "hallucination" driven by our learned expectations of what's coming next.
But how much of what you experience is truth and how much of it is based on your learned expectations and biases? Metaphors like "deception" and "hallucination" can be deceptive themselves. What does it really mean to say that the brain "predicts" your self into being?
In this reading group we'll tackle some of these questions by reading two texts by leading neuroscientists. We will also be joined by a special guest, philosopher of cognition Andy Clark, who will help us to work our way through these complex ideas.