LIAD MUDRIK - Neuroscientist - Principal Investigator Liad Mudrik Lab, Tel Aviv University

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How we think, feel, and experience the world is a mystery. What distinguishes our consciousness from AI and machine learning?

Liad Mudrik studies high level cognition and its neural substrates, focusing on conscious experience. She teaches at the School of Psychological Sciences at Tel Aviv University. At her research lab, her team is currently investigating the functionality of consciousness, trying to unravel the depth and limits of unconscious processing, and also researching the ways semantic relations between concepts and objects are formed and detected.

"So I think, first of all, I would like young people to keep an open mind and to be able to extract information from multiple sources and gain interdisciplinary training. So if you are a computer scientist, read philosophy. If you're a philosopher, read neuroscience or whatever is interesting for you. And don't be ignorant. It's important for climate change. It's important for politics, for sure. Again, going back to what's going on in the last few weeks, it's important for science, and it's important for who you are.

So my, kind of aspiration, if some genie came and gave me one wish, well, I would like three. So after I got my loved ones to be healthy and happy, that's the most important thing. The next wish for me would be to continue learning throughout my life and learn and if I can also teach, that's a plus. But this ability to evolve and expand your horizons and chase the truth, irrespective of which type of truth you're interested in, which field. What's the burning question that you want to answer? But find it yourself. Don't believe others. Build yourself on the knowledge of others, learn from others, but develop this kind of inner sense of critical thinking that allows you to say this is what I believe in. This is what I don't. And leave that to your children as well. So I hope our future generations will build on and will cherish knowledge and kind of generate new knowledge - but qualitative knowledge. It just allows us to know more about ourselves, about the world we live in, about other human beings. And be respectful of others, and be kind."

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