Watanabe Laboratory

Unraveling the Neural Mechanism of Consciousness via Development and Testing of Machine Consciousness

We are seeking for graduate students (Master's and PhD) and researchers that are interested in the neural mechanism of consciousness and mind-uploading. (Click here for more details on admission)

Links:

A book from Associate Prof. Masataka Watanabe

“From Biological to Artificial Consciousness” (Springer) 2022

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91138-6

TEDx U-Tokyo Talk by Associate Prof. Masataka Watanabe

A commercial article introducing Associate Prof. Masataka Watanabe’s work

“Rethinking our consciousness: An approach to a scientifically feasible seamless mind-uploading” (Research Features) 2023

https://researchfeatures.com/rethinking-consciousness/

Rethinking our consciousness: An approach to a scientifically feasible seamless mind-uploadingMasataka Watanabe, University of Tokyo, proposes a new type of brain‒machine interface that is capable of fully reconstructing consciousness.