Meetings

How do we prepare to die, and what role can consciousness play in this process? Yesche Regel, a teacher and practitioner of Buddhist meditation, addresses these questions in the context of the 15^th “Behind and Beyond the Brain” Symposium, promoted by the Bial Foundation.

Some children, from a very early age, report memories of lives they claim to have lived before their current one. Coincidence, psychological construction, or a phenomenon yet to be explained? This is the guiding question behind the research work of Jim Tucker, an American child and adolescent psychiatrist, who will be one of the speakers at the 15th “Behind and Beyond the Brain” Symposium of the Bial Foundation.

Universal and inevitable, death remains one of the most challenging and enigmatic phenomena of the human condition. Is death a moment or a process? What happens in the brain as life comes to an end? What do people who have undergone near‑death experiences report? And how do different cultures interpret and prepare for this moment? These are some of the questions at the heart of the 15th “Behind and Beyond the Brain” Symposium.

Near-death experiences continue to challenge the scientific understanding of consciousness: how can vivid and structured reports be explained at moments of extreme physiological failure? This is the central question addressed by neuroscientist Charlotte Martial, who will take part in the 15th “Behind and Beyond the Brain” Symposium, organised by the Bial Foundation.

Is consciousness a product of the brain, or could it be something more fundamental? This is one of the central questions addressed by Christof Koch, one of the most influential contemporary neuroscientists, in his contribution to the 15th “Behind and Beyond the Brain” Symposium, promoted by the Bial Foundation and taking place from April 8 to 11 in Porto.

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