Glasgow Skeptics

Artificial intelligence can now generate human-like text, produce synthetic images, imitate conversation, and support healthcare and education. As these systems become part of our everyday life, they raise deeper questions about consciousness, creativity, judgement and what it really means to think. Drawing on philosophy, neuroscience and generative AI, this talk explores the difference between machines predicting patterns and humans experiencing meaning, emotion and embodied lived reality. About the speaker:Dr Ourania Varsou is a medically-qualified Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at the…