Lecture 'The Hypernet Inside Your Head'

Science has long been studying how signals are transmitted along neural pathways. Specialists can already measure brain activity in various states such as sleep, pain, or sexual arousal. They have identified brain areas responsible for emotions and feelings. Yet there is still no final explanation of what consciousness is. Why do we feel like we are “ourselves”? Why does one person perceive color as “warm,” while another as “dull”? Why is our perception of the world not just reactive, but conscious?

In a lecture, neurobiologist Vladimir Alipov will discuss the following topics:
— why the brain is not just a set of neurons, but a complex hypersystem;
— how neural activity forms subjective experience;
— what qualia are—the “inner sense” of color, pain, or pleasure;
— and why even the most modern neural networks still can’t feel.

“Neurobiology and psychophysiology face a challenge in studying the most important thing—our consciousness. Does a fish, a worm, or artificial intelligence have consciousness? Is it present in you or in your neighbor? What lies behind the ‘hard problem of consciousness’? How are modern scientific approaches trying to answer these questions, and what will happen when answers are found? This and much more is what our lecture is about.”

Vladimir Alipov

We invite you into the world of cutting-edge science. Understanding how the brain works is the key to the future, where it will be possible to control personality, treat diseases, or create artificial intelligence. This lecture focuses not on the brain’s functioning, but on the emergence of the feeling of “I.”

Vladimir Alipov is a doctor, neurobiologist, and science popularizer whose scientific work is focused on studying the mechanisms of memory.