Arne Dietrich

Today we had a surprise visit from Arne, the lecturer from last weeks conference Nailing Jelly To The Wall. Arne is a neuroscientist who specializes in creativity and consciousness. He is also a professor of theoretical neuroscience at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.

We started out by talking about the MPC. We went over our rubrics, our books, our essays and our curriculum, amongst many other things. We were all impressed because he was the first visiting professor who actually commented specifically about our rubrics.

We then started talking about his career and how we came to study neuroscience. He told us that he had always had an interest for human behavior and he has always had a scientific mind. He ended up  in neuroscience because it is the most scientific area in psychology. He got interested in creativity because it is the highest of all cognitive functions. It is what makes us higher  and smarter that the rest of the animals and also because human beings barely know anything about creativity and consciousness.

We later started talking of how neuroscience and told us a few spoilers of what might happen in the future (such as people control in our brain).