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Kobayashi Hideo Award こばやしひでおしょう

Edition 23 (2024)

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Yuuji Ikegaya いけがや ゆうじ award

Why does the brain exist, and why do humans possess such large brains? Based on a three-day intensive course with high-school students, this book uses questions about artificial intelligence, life and death, time, and the self to explore the phenomenon of the self through neuroscience.

A record of lectures that reconsider what it means to be a self through an understanding of the brain.

672 pages
neuroscienceselfhoodartificial intelligencelife and deathdialogue with high-school students