Electricity creates consciousness
Why our idea of consciousness may be wrong
29th April 2024 at The Institute of Art and Ideas, London UK
How could calcium ions rushing through a membrane generate the taste of coffee, the smell of a rose or the feeling of love? Join celebrated biochemist, Nick Lane, as he argues that the deep logic of life is at root an electrical phenomenon.
‘His theories are ingenious, breathtaking in scope, and challenging in every sense’ – The Guardian
The Speaker
Nick Lane is an multi-award-winning biochemist and an outstanding science communicator in the origins of life field. He is a Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry at University College London and a bestselling author of five critically-acclaimed books on evolutionary biochemistry, selling over 150,000 copies worldwide. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (2022) explores the elusive chemical logic of life, from genetic information to consciousness.