This study group will read and discuss Stanislas Dehaene’s 2014 book, subtitled Deciphering how the brain codes our thoughts. Dehaene, a mathematician and professor of experimental cognitive psychology at the College de France, summarizes two decades of research by himself and others into the neural basis of consciousness.

Based on experimental data and theoretical analysis, he suggests that consciousness is a process of brain-wide information sharing. Please read the introduction and first chapter for the first class.

This study group for those 50 and above will meet for two hours on Thursdays from October 26 through November 16.

Instructor Craig Stephan is a retired physicist.