Consciousness, Free Will, and Psychedelics
Presenter:
Dr. Christof Koch, DR. Brian Greene
Time:
1:23:43
Summary
World renowned neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist Christof Koch joins Brian Greene to discuss how decades of experimental and theoretical investigation have shaped his understanding of consciousness and the brain -- and how recent psychedelic experiences have profoundly reshaped his perspective on life and death.
Transcript
Hey everyone. Welcome to today's conversation, which is on the mysteries of mine, trying to gain some insight into those deep and and and compelling qualities of experience that happen inside of our heads, where it comes from, and can it be replicated, and can it be described mathematically, all these deep questions about consciousness. And we're so pleased to have one of the great world experts on this subject joining us for this conversation that is Christophe Koch, who has developed his entire career to understanding the brain, the mind and the nature of consciousness.
He is a neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist who serves as the chief scientist of the tiny blue dot Foundation, where he seeks to understand the physical substrate of consciousness in the brain. Prior to that, Christophe was the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, where he continues to do research. So I'm honored to welcome Christophe Koch to the conversation. Christophe, how are you doing? Thank you very much. Brian. I feel very well. And this came off rowing here in beautiful on our lake union here, so I feel full of women vigor. We couldn't ask for more for this conversation.