Lecture: "The Walking Dead. Rediscovering Yourself!"

For a century, psychologists have been in uncertainty: some drowned in the mysteries of the unconscious, others called our mind a “black box,” and still others hoped for a fragile existence. But now this uncertainty has been dispelled: neuroscience has revealed the secrets of the “black box”—the unconscious is no longer hidden, and existence has been recognized as an illusion. Now we need to think about how to use the latest achievements in brain research. Do we have “free will”? How should we live if our decisions are made by a mass of convoluted biomass weighing about one and a half kilograms? Can we live our lives consciously, or are we merely puppets of our genes, culture, and origins? In other words: are we walking dead, or do we have the right to choose?