Peter Watts: Conscious Ants and Human Hives

The talk is part of the Popular Science Forum Ratio 2017 () Watts’ talk will go over some of the insanely counterintuitive findings about the nature of consciousness, ranging from insects who seem able to recognize themselves in mirrors to Humans who drive across town, commit murder, clean up the mess and drive back home again, unconscious the whole time. Also the risks we face as we start playing around with brain-to-brain interfaces and Liu et al’s “neural lace” (widely recognised after Elon Musk’s Neuralink venture was announced).