Hakwan Lau

Hakwan Lau, a UCLA professor specializing in cognitive neuroscience and philosophy, dives deep into the critiques of Integrated Information Theory and its implications for understanding consciousness. He explores the complexities of human versus artificial consciousness, using Star Trek's Commander Data as a reference point. The conversation also questions the nature of perceptual experiences, like color perception, and how mental and sensory experiences can be misrepresented. Finally, Lau discusses the challenges facing consciousness science in today's sensationalist environment.

Join Hakwan Lau, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, as he discusses the Integrated Information Theory of consciousness and differences between conferences. They explore attention studies, the elusive silver bullet experiment, conscious perception and magic tricks, the argument for a high order theory, and the importance of theories in consciousness science.