Jason Mattingley - What can neuroscience tell us about the nature of consciousness?

Another great two-part video from Slow TV (at Blip.tv).

What can neuroscience tell us about the nature of consciousness? Professor Jason Mattingley is a neuroscientist and neuropsychologist from the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. In this lecture he looks at the nature of consciousness. Is it simply when we are fully awake? Is it the mental process that underpins thinking and learning? What happens when we are rendered unconscious? Mattingley looks at the different understandings of consciousness and what the field of neuroscience can add to our collective understanding of how the mind works. La Trobe University, October 2009

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