BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250818T233856EDT-5607cLULTU@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250819T033856Z 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\, ϲ Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economic (MCCHE).\n DTSTART:20201118T160000Z DTEND:20201118T180000Z SUMMARY:Brain to Society: Decision and Behavior Seminar Series with Dr. Geo rg Northoff URL:/desautels/channels/event/brain-society-decision-a nd-behavior-seminar-series-dr-georg-northoff-325732 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR