Hay Festival Cartagena 2024

Anil Seth is a British scientist who works in research into the biology of consciousness. He a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, and is Co-director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and the Brain, Mind and Consciousness programme run by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His most recent publication is Being You (2021), an impressive work of non-fiction that deals with the mental construction that we identify as “ourselves”, starting with the biological basis of neuronal fabric and its functions, motivated by that great mystery which modern science is seeking to resolve: what is consciousness and where does it come from?

Anil Seth will participate in this event digitally.

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Venki Ramakrishnan (India/United States) won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on molecular biology, which includes studies into the advanced compression of the atomic structure of the ribosome, the so-called “mother of all molecules”. He covered this topic extensively in his book Gene Machine. He has recently written Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality. At this event he will talk about these two works with Carlos Serrano.

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