The Future Mind – A conversation with Annika and Tristan

A Conversation between Annika, Tristan and Àlex Gómez-Marín

Wednesday, November 13
9:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET 

This event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING.

Annika and Tristan are two distinct persons that share a single body. Together over the last sixteen years they have learned to live in harmony with each other while overcoming the unique struggles and challenges their situation naturally brings. Today they are ready to share what they have learned from their experience of being “two souls in one brain” and what the existence of others like them may mean for science and the hard problem of consciousness. Recently interviewed by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove and featured on “New Thinking Allowed”, Annika and Tristan’s case is unique and transcends the psychiatric and psychological literature. Their embodied experiences offer radical insights for neuro-diversity and have deep metaphysical implications for our everyday life.

Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.