Nature of consciousness explored at Cuthman Lecture

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Published 20th Jan 2016, 11:46 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 06:46 BST
Professor Aleksander designed the first neural pattern recognition system in the 1980sProfessor Aleksander designed the first neural pattern recognition system in the 1980s
Professor Aleksander designed the first neural pattern recognition system in the 1980s

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ARTIFICIAL intelligence and what it means to be conscious will be explored in the next Cuthman Lecture.

Igor Aleksander works at Imperial College, London, as an emeritus professor of neural systems engineering in the department of electrical and electronic engineering.

His talk, Consciousness Science: Does it Annihilate the Soul?, will be at Penfold Hall, Church Street, Steyning, on Tuesday, February 9, at 7.30pm.

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Series convenor Christine Aubrey said: “There has been a recent revival of interest in scientific explorations of what it means to be conscious – the inner experience of knowing things, being in the world, and being capable of acting in it – and some of these will be simply presented.