In this off-the-wall, sci-fi-tinged comedy/drama from acclaimed director Michel Gondry, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star as former lovers who find that forgetting one another may not be as easy as they thought. “A remarkable film! Don’t expect anything standard-issue from this uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologetically twisted romance.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Hameroff’s lively discussion, entitled “Eternal Sunshine … with a chance of showers,” will explore scientific prospects for real memory manipulation, based on events portrayed in the movie, as well as current understanding of consciousness, self and our place in the universe.
The Loft Cinema presents a special screening of the Oscar-winning 2004 comedy/drama, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, featuring a live introduction by Stuart Hameroff, MD, director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Studies. This presentation is part of the sixth annual National Week of Science on Screen, which takes place from March 20 to March 26 at select independent cinemas across the country He appeared in the film, WhattheBleep?, as well as numerous shows on BBC, PBS, Discovery, OWN, RT, History Channel and YouTube. He has written or edited five books and more than one hundred scientific articles. Hameroff also is working to develop ‘transcranial ultrasound’ (‘TUS’) to improve mood and brain function, apparently by resonating microtubules.
With famed British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, Hameroff developed the controversial ‘Orch OR’ theory in which consciousness derives from microtubule quantum vibrations connected to the fine-scale structure of the universe.
Stuart Hameroff, MD, is an anesthesiologist and researcher and director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Consciousness Studies which organizes the well-known conference series ‘The Science of Consciousness.’ His research focuses on how the brain produces consciousness, and how anesthetics act to erase it, e.g., via dampening quantum vibrations of microtubules inside brain neurons. Guest Speaker, Stuart Hameroff, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies