🧠✨ What is consciousness—and how can it be scientifically researched? ✨🧠
In our latest Zoomposium, we talk to Dr. Lukas Kob, an interdisciplinary philosopher working at the intersection of consciousness, language, and artificial intelligence.
After studying psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience and earning his doctorate at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, he now conducts research on structuralist approaches in the mind sciences.
Instead of taking consciousness for granted, Dr. Kob asks: 👉 What do neural activity patterns really tell us about subjective experience—and where are their limits? 👉 Can states of consciousness only be understood through their relational structures? 👉 How can structuralist methods help to identify the neural correlates of consciousness more precisely? It gets particularly exciting where philosophy, neuroscience, and AI come together:
Could artificial systems one day not only exhibit intelligent behavior, but also understand the structure of conscious states? And how could we even assess whether an AI is “conscious” – or only appears to be?
📎Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/01/14/struktur-des-bewusstseins/
📽️ Interview: https://youtu.be/1zUuoApblYE