Data and Brains: how data analysis can inform us about how the brain works
Two tracks, a train, a change lever and a choice: save five people on the track the train is running on or divert the train to the second track where a child is crossing? Will emotions drive the choice or rationality? What do the data we get from our brains tell us? How do digital programmes and computer technologies help us in this?
The course aims to show how current technologies enable us to provide answers to the above questions within certain epistemic limits and how these limits are related to the type of inferences we use to move from data to models describing aspects of reality.
Federico Agostinelli
I see data analysis techniques and computer science applied to neuroscience as one of the most stimulating points of contact between philosophy and science in the digital age and one of the most appropriate fields of study for understanding what the power of data analysis can do. This link has always underpinned my studies, which is why I have taken extracurricular courses at the Faculty of Informatics in Lugano and in data analysis, which I consider essential to the understanding of the characteristic tools of our century.
Federico Agostinelli is currently a student in the USI Master in Philosophy.
