【主讲】诺贝尔经济学奖获得者Robert J. Aumann

【题目】“意识”背后的原因

【时间】2014年12月16日（周二）9.50-11.00

【地点】清华经管学院伟伦楼报告厅

【语言】英文

【主办】管理科学与工程系

【摘要】Consciousness is the ability to experience: to see, hear, smell, taste, desire, enjoy, suffer, love, hate, fear, intend, be excited or saddened, … . The "how" of consciousness – its physiological mechanism – is not at all understood; it remains a deep mystery, the last great frontier of science.Here we discuss not the "how," but the "why" of consciousness: the adaptive function it serves, the evolutionary advantage it bestows. Briefly, we argue that consciousness enables incentives to work, thus shortcutting and simplifying processes that would otherwise be far too complex to realize in practice.However, the "how" remains a deep mystery.

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