We are Los Angeles' Largest Cognitive Science Meetup Group!

The Los Angeles Brain & Consciousness Group is about today's science and theory relevant to brain and mind, their health, and especially the mystery of consciousness.  We meet in person and share discussions online so even if you're not near L.A. you're welcome to join us.  Maybe you'd like to come visit sometime, we get some really great speakers! 

As a group we seek to learn and share what is known about the most fundamental aspects of who we all are -- the functioning of our brains and minds.  Technological advances are yielding amazing new research techniques enabling breakthrough knowledge in the neurosciences, cell and molecular biologies, medicine, nutrition, related biotechnologies and even computer technologies relevant to brain and consciousness.  This explosion in knowledge causes many of us to feel we are on the verge of coming to an understanding on the greatest mystery of our time:  the mystery of consciousness.   But even before that happens, keeping up with this knowledge helps us understand and improve our own cognitive abilities.

Understanding the mind and how it relates to our body, our family, and our society should enable us to optimize our roles in all of these areas of our lives.   Even though there is much remaining to be discovered, we push forward with very normal human desires to realize our full potentials.  We may not all agree on what is important or even valid in the data but realize that it is all part of our journey of self-discovery; part of the mystery that is slowly being unraveled. This mystery may encompass some important lines of thought about consciousness that are potentially valid but traditionally less scientific like higher intelligence and historical conceptions of God, that are part of the discussion as well.  We may sometimes engage physics and cosmology as well as metaphysics in our sojourns around the various aspects of consciousness and its relational value to well being.

In more specific terms our meetups explore brain anatomy and physiology as well as understanding and raising our consciousness in practical ways from physical mechanisms to social impacts to parenting to employing available tools benefiting mental and physical wellness through the sciences.  The emphasis is on scientific evidence and testable theory but does not exclude potentially valid information that today still eludes good scientific investigation.  We strive to be at, but not too far over, the very edge.  

Come join us in this exploratory journey through the brain and consciousness, we try to have at least one meetup in the Los Angeles area every month.  If you are outside the Southern California area and would like to visit us for any specific meetup, please come.  Or if you find any of our speakers sufficiently compelling to bring to your area, most are available for speaking engagements.  The only thing you need to bring with you is an open mind.

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But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine