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Blue Mind: A look at the ocean through the field of neuroscience
"We are more than logical. We are human." Jacques Cousteau.
Why do books and symposia about the human brain, the most complex object in the universe, contain no mention of the ocean, the single greatest feature of our planet? Why do books and conferences on protecting and restoring the world’s oceans entirely overlook the field of cognitive neuroscience? The BlueMind Summit seeks to answer these questions by combining the fields of neuroscience and oceanography through presentations from practitioners and visionaries in both fields.
Tech Horizons research director Jake Dunagan will be speaking at the summit on June 2 at the California Academy of Sciences. He will be presenting his research on neuroscience along with the Vice Mayor of Long Beach, California. Together they will explore the issues coastal communities deal with on a daily basis through the lens of Alternative Futures—a forecasting methodology developed by Jim Dator at the Manoa School of Future Studies which presents four alternative visions of the future.
"What I like about the vision of this conference is the convergence of two very important worlds that don't generally talk to each other, and that is ocean science and neuroscience. I'm excited about the new ideas that come out of that conversation," said Dunagan.
The BlueMind Summit is closed to the public, but will be streamed live on June 2, 2011 at mindandocean.org.