Lunch & Speaker Event with Mark Gober

Join us for lunch with Mark Gober and Brett Hurt, CEO and Co-founder of data.world and Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics before.

Mark Gober has written seven books that start with the title of “An End to Upside Down…” that challenge traditional scientific beliefs. As Stargate was approved for $500 billion of funding (far more inflation adjusted than the Manhattan Project versus Germany or the space race versus Russia) and China’s DeepSeek challenges our US-created AI models with an open-source approach, it is clear that we are in a race to be the first country to create AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). But do we even know what consciousness is? We’ll dive into Mark Gober’s first book, “An End to Upside Down Thinking,” to challenge the scientific consensus that consciousness somehow materializes from matter. Mark’s book was turned into a successful podcast named “Where Is My Mind?”

As we race towards the creation of sentient machines globally, evoking science-fiction movies of the past like “Blade Runner” or “The Matrix” (and leading to the early moratorium calls in 2023 to pause AI development for six months – remember that?), this topic is more important than ever. Come ready to challenge your materialist assumptions as we dive into a whole new way of thinking about “the hard problem of consciousness.”

Free to attend. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.