Lecture 'The Creative and Boundless Mind'. Day Two: The Human Brain and AI: From Natural Economy to the Cyber World

How does the brain’s decision-making process work? Where do our emotions arise? Is it possible to change our habits? How can consciousness be explained in terms of neural processes? Where do thoughts come from? In a course with psychophysiologist Alexander Kaplan, professor at Moscow State University, we will study in detail what happens inside the human brain—from neuronal activity to the formation of behavior, emotions, and complex mental states. This course is a deep discussion with a pioneer in brain-computer interface systems, recognized as a world-class expert. You will learn about the latest discoveries in neuroscience and see how this knowledge can change your life.

The course is designed for those who want to understand themselves better, relying not on myths but on data from modern science. The human brain has unique intelligence capable of creative thinking, which is unavailable to today’s artificial intelligences. Billions of synapses provide complex combinatorics, encoding details of events. But do we use all that potential? We will discuss this and much more on the course.