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Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking by The Long Now Foundation

May 20, 202600:50:47Society & Culture

How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to subjective experience? Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miolane joined science historian Claire Isabel Webb to explore this question from an...

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