I am thrilled to announce that in the spirit of this years Artificial Intelligence Accelerating Change conference, I've convinced my long time mentor, UC Berkeley Professor Walter J. Freeman to come and talk to us about his neurobiological study of the Mind (and A.I.) Dr. Freeman embodies the highly interdisciplinary, fully micro & macroscopic study of the single most important (and difficult?) question that has and IMHO will ever faced humankind: How do neurons make brains, brains make minds, minds make consciousness, (and collective consciousness make societies, and if we can repeat the grand experiment in silicon!)
Dr. Freeman knows a little bit about the subject: he earned his first degree in Physics from MIT, took a break to study electronics in the Navy during WWII, worked on mathematics at Hamilton College in N.Y., went on to earn a PhD in English & Philosophy from U. of Chicago - and topped it all off with a cum laude M.D. from Yale med school. He eventually joined the Cal faculty, where he has worked in the departments of Molecular & Cell Biology, Biophysics, and Bioengineering.