This section hosts all the multimedia contents that accompany Human Brains.
Insights, interviews, graphic and informative contents will be published periodically to illustrate the phases of the three-year project.
Chiara Costa, Head of Programs of Fondazione Prada, describes the origin of the foundation’s interest in neuroscience and illustrates the main themes that will be addressed by the project over the next three years.
Giancarlo Comi, President of Scientific board of “Human Brains”, provides an overview of the complex multidisciplinary project. A program in constant evolution, “Human Brains” aims to experiment new collaboration among scientists and scholars thus testing innovative communication formats addressed to a heterogeneous and international public.
The program of “Human Brains” was presented during a live streamed press conference on 22 October 2020. Speakers included Giancarlo Comi, President of “Human Brains” Scientific Committee, Massimo Cacciari, Member of the Scientific Committee and Chiara Costa, Head of Programs of Fondazione Prada.
NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
An introduction of the speech by Neuroscientist Mavi Sánchez-Vives titled In the Search for Consciousness: Brain Processing of Real and Virtual Worlds
NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux introduces his speech The Connectomics of Conscious Processing: From the Molecular to the Cultural Level
FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL NEUROIMAGING
A short introduction of neurobiologist Eve Marder’s speech Individual Differences and Differential Resilience
FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL NEUROIMAGING
Watch the first minutes of Antonio Damasio’s speech On the Biology of Feeling and Consciousness
THE LANGUAGES OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Cognitive psychologist Stanislas Dehaene introduces his speech Human Singularity: Which Aspects of Consciousness Are Shared with Other Primates and Which Are Unique?
THE LANGUAGES OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Watch the introduction by neurolinguist Andrea Moro to his speech Impossible Languages: Infinity as the Fingerprint of the Human Mind
EVOLUTION OF CULTURE: HOW FAR WE WILL GO? (FROM ANTHROPOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY)
Ian Tattersall introduces his speech
Culture as the Ultimate Expression of Evolution
EVOLUTION OF CULTURE: HOW FAR WE WILL GO? (FROM ANTHROPOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY)
Design for a Creative Brain is the title of the speech by neuroscientist Idan Segev
CONSCIOUSNESS: THE STILL OPEN QUESTIONS (TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES)
Philosopher Michele Di Francesco presents his speech Fifty Years of Consciousness: A Philosophical History
CONSCIOUSNESS: THE STILL OPEN QUESTIONS (TWO DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES)
The last speech by psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi Consciousness and Our Place in Nature
Giancarlo Comi, president of “Human Brains” scientific board, leads visitors through the exhibition “Preserving the Brain” and its sections.