*What if no single theory of consciousness has the whole picture?*
Alex G贸mez-Mar铆n explains why he remains agnostic about competing theories of consciousness, arguing that each may capture part of the puzzle while experience itself ultimately transcends our theoretical abstractions.
0:00 Staying Agnostic About Consciousness
1:34 The Value of Competing Theories
2:49 Experience Beyond Theory
4:30 Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
*Alex G贸mez-Mar铆n* is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time in inert systems, to the neurobiology of action-perception in living organisms such as flies, worms, mice, and humans.
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