Like others here, I found Consciousness Explained to generate a huge perspective shift in my worldview. My (now) wife and I went to see him speak in June 2012

Like others here, I found Consciousness Explained to generate a huge perspective shift in my worldview. My (now) wife and I went to see him speak in June 2012 in King's College Cambridge, on the event of Alan Turing's 100th birthday: https://philevents.org/event/show/2205 https://philevents.org/event/show/2205 I don't remember all the details, but I think he spoke about Turing's ideas about evolution and computers. It might be similar to this article from roughly the same time (though paywalled): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/-a-perfect-and-beautiful-machine-what-darwins-theory-of-evolution-reveals-about-artificial-intelligence/258829/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/-a-pe... The only other talk I remember going to was Simon Singh (author of Fermat's Last Theorem) giving a great presentation on (and demonstration of!) the Enigma machine.