{"id":374,"date":"2013-10-28T19:12:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/?p=736"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:49:15","slug":"christof-koch-a-romantic-reductionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/2013\/10\/28\/christof-koch-a-romantic-reductionist\/","title":{"rendered":"Christof Koch, a Romantic Reductionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-lecerveau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/koch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just in case the <strong><span style=\"color: #4c4c4c;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summer12.isc.uqam.ca\/page\/renseignement.php?lang_id=2\"><span style=\"color: #4c4c4c;\">2012 Summer School on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #4c4c4c;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> in Montreal did not quench your ravenous thirst for knowledge on the subject, I am providing a link below to a recent <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/a-monthly-podcast-on-cognitive-science\/\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Brain Science Podcast<\/span><\/a><\/span> interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/lecerveau.mcgill.ca\/flash\/i\/i_12\/i_12_cl\/i_12_cl_con\/i_12_cl_con.html#koch\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Christof Koch<\/span><\/a>, another great name in consciousness research<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #4c4c4c;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Author of the book <em>Confessions<\/em><em> of a Romantic Reductionist<\/em>, Koch argues that we are no longer confined to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/d\/d_12\/d_12_p\/d_12_p_con\/d_12_p_con.html#2\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">philosphical speculation<\/span><\/a><\/span> about human consciousness, but instead can now make predictions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrain.mcgill.ca\/flash\/d\/d_12\/d_12_p\/d_12_p_con\/d_12_p_con.html#5\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">test them experimentally<\/span><\/a>. <!--more-->In this recent interview, he reviews the progress that has been achieved since an earlier Brain Science Podcast interview on this subject with Dr. Ginger Campbell, in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsciencepodcast.com\/bsp\/update-on-consciousness-research-with-christof-koch-bsp-84.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-lecerveau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> Update on Consciousness Research with Christof Koch (Brain Science Podcast 84)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/08\/30\/consciousness-christof-koch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog-lecerveau.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/i_lien.gif\" alt=\"i_lien\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" \/> How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary \u201c\u00dcbermind\u201d Is Inevitable<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case the 2012 Summer School on the Evolution and Function of Consciousness in Montreal did not quench your ravenous thirst for knowledge on the subject, I am providing a link below to a recent Brain Science Podcast interview with Christof Koch, another great name in consciousness research. 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