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DESCRIPTION:From brain to self – A temporo-spatial and neuro-ecological app
 roach\n\nGeorg Northoff\, MD\, PhD\, FRCP\n\nGeorg Northoff\, MD\, PhD\, F
 RCP is a philosopher\, neuroscientist and psychiatrist\, holding degrees i
 n all three disciplines. Being originally from Germany\, he is now working
  in Ottawa/Canada where he holds a Canada Research Chair for Mind\, Brain 
 Imaging\, and Neuroethics. His research focuses on the relationship betwee
 n brain and mind in its various facets including neuroscience\, psychiatry
 \, and philosophy. He is interested in discov-ering the neuronal mechanism
 s related to consciousness and self in both healthy subjects and psychiatr
 ic disorders like depression and schizophrenia. “The question driving him 
 is: why and how can our brain construct subjective phenomena like self\, c
 onsciousness\, emotions.” He is one of the leading figures in linking phil
 osophy and neuroscience as well as the founder of non-reductive neurophilo
 sophy. He authored more than 270 journal articles and 15 books which are t
 ranslated into several languages including “Neuro-philosophy and the Healt
 hy Mind” 2016 Norton Publishing\, New York. All papers etc\, can be found 
 on the website. See recent Podcast for broader audience.\n\nAbout the pres
 entation\n\nThe self guides our decision making while\, at the same time\,
  providing temporal continuity over time. How can such seemingly contradic
 tory features of temporal flexibility and stability be reconciled in the s
 elf? My talk includes three parts. First\, I demonstrate recent data on ho
 w the temporo-spatial dynamics of the brain’s spontaneous activity (or res
 ting state) shapes the self providing temporal continuity and stability. T
 his implies an explicitly temporo-spatial (rather than primarily cognitive
 ) model of self – a basis model of self-specificity (BMSS) (Northoff 2016)
 . Secondly\, I show how the internal self flexibly modulates our decision 
 making in con-junction or balance with the external environment. This impl
 ies a relational and explicitly neuro-ecological (rather than primarily ne
 uronal or neuro-cognitive) characterization of the basis model of self-spe
 cificity (BMSS). Thirdly\, I demonstrate the implications of such temporo-
 spatial and neuro-ecological basis model of self for (i) our view of mind-
 brain relation that may be rephrased as world-brain relation\, that (ii)\,
  like the self\, requires an explicitly non-reductive (rather than reducti
 ve) neuro-philosophical approach.\n\nPanel Discussion: A panel will follow
  the presentation to advance precision convergence science on the many dim
 ensions taken by the self and on the multiscale body\, brain and society m
 echanisms underlying how the self operates in guiding immediate and long t
 erm decision making and behavior over a person’s life course. Discussion w
 ill address how such knowledge can inform better targeted and more impactf
 ul innovation/intervention for life-long wellness and resilience\, be thes
 e deployed in digital or physical contexts. The moderator is Prof. Laurett
 e Dubé\, Chair and Scientific Director\, McGill Centre for the Convergence
  of Health and Economic (MCCHE).\n
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SUMMARY:Brain to Society: Decision and Behavior Seminar Series with Dr. Geo
 rg Northoff
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/channels/event/brain-society-decision-a
 nd-behavior-seminar-series-dr-georg-northoff-325732
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