In 1998, two researchers made a bet that by 2023 we would see signs of consciousness in the brain. How close are you to the answer when the bet is due?
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December 28, 2022
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Will we ever be able to find consciousness in our brains? It’s this question that a quarter-century ago, two researchers tried to settle his bet expiring in 2023.
In 1998, Christof Koch, now at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, bet David Chalmers, now at New York University, that scientists would discover certain signatures (or neural correlates) of consciousness within 25 years. rice field.
“I was a young scholar, in the best shape of the world…
