Life and Other Problems

Life and Other Problems

HUMANITY / Is human life special? Or just one iteration in a massive, co-created web of intelligence?Life and Other ProblemsDirector: Max KestnerProducer: Vibeke VogelInternational sales: Country: Denmark, Sweden, UKIn Life and Other Problems, two narratives evolve throughout the film. One is the story about the killing of an 18-month-old, perfectly healthy giraffe in Copenhagen Zoo. The other is the director Max Kestner’s musings about his fath…

Sacha, 10 years old, would like to know if you can't think. Neurologist Steven Laureys answers: If the brain can't help but think, there are methods to let go and prevent it from going into loops up there!

As part of a rather daring reflection exercise, British journalist Rowan Hooper imagined a future in which neurobiology would have allowed humans to live in the skin of another living species, the time of a moment. Connecting our brain to that of animals Today's editor-in-chief of New Scientist magazine and [...]

Conscience is not unique to humans. Recent studies in neuroscience and philosophy have questioned the belief that only we possess this attribute, suggesting that many animals may experience some level of consciousness. What then distinguishes the human mind from that of other species?