What is consciousness?

17:30

May 23 2025

Open and free

Museum of Engineering and Technology in Krakow

Św. Wawrzyńca 15, 31-060 Kraków

Philosophers have spilled a sea of ink for centuries trying to answer the question of the nature of consciousness, while psychologists and neuroscientists have conducted countless studies to find its biological basis. Will these studies and debates finally emerge the answer to the riddle of consciousness? Or is it so subjective that objective scientific methods will never allow us to understand it?

Magdalena Reuter

She specializes in philosophy of mind, epistemology and neurocognitive science. Her research focuses on phenomenology, embodied cognition, consciousness, sensory substitution, confabulation, m…

Michał Wierzchoń

Michal Wierzchon - cognitive psychologist, cognitive scientist, professor of social sciences, director of the Institute of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University and head of the Consciousne…

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