Event Information
Title:
DOES LIFE EQUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING?
Type:
Lecture
Sponsor:
Department of Neurobiology
Lecturer:
Dr. Yuval Noah Harari
Dept of History,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Date:
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Time:
13:00
Location:
Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Building for Biomedical Research, Botnar Auditorium
Contact:
The subject of this talk will be conversion of the 1Cinformation processing 1D paradigm into the control paradigm, not only in the life sciences but also in growing parts of the humanities and social sciences. The second part will focus on the implications of this subject to the study of the brain and consciousness. Is the brain an information processing system? And if so, does this imply that consciousness is an information processing system? What do we miss when we try to understand the world through the information processing paradigm?