Name: Bar lecture: "What Can Quantum Theory Tell Us About Consciousness?"
Start: 2026-10-24T16:30:00.000Z
Location: Keanu Izakaya Bar

​Deep Dive is a new series of lecture nights in Barcelona: we borrow a bar, bring in someone who really knows their subject, and let them talk about it.

​🌍 Lecture: "The Ceuta Crisis: What Really Happened at Europe's Southern Border and Why?"
​🎤 Speaker: Francesco Pasetti, Research Fellow at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) and Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
​📍 Location: central Barcelona, exact venue announced soon
​📅 Wednesday, 14 October, doors open at 6:30 PM

​On 30 July, tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, a Spanish city of 84,000 on the African coast. Dozens died. Within days it was an EU emergency, and everyone had an opinion. Was it an invasion? And did Pedro Sánchez handle it the right way?
​Most of us followed it through headlines and still couldn't say what actually happened, or why it happened there.
​Francesco studies migration and border policy for a living, and he is one of the people journalists call when they need this story put in context. The night has three parts:

1. ​The backstory: the long and complicated relationship between Spain and Morocco, and why there is a European border on African soil in the first place.
2. ​The crisis: why people migrate, what led so many to cross at once, and how it turned into such a serious humanitarian situation.
3. ​What now: what the crisis means for Spain and Europe, how it was handled, and what can realistically be done, with the different approaches on the table.

​This won't be a lecture where you just sit and listen. Francesco will ask the room what you think, put questions to you, and open things up for discussion along the way. Come with opinions.
​He sticks to the facts and explains them clearly to people who don't work in politics, which is exactly the point of the night. No background needed.
​The talk runs about 50 minutes, followed by open Q&A and time to chat with Francesco and the rest of the room after.

​**Agenda**
​6:30 PM - Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order drinks, and expect a bar line, arriving early is key.
​6:55 PM - Host introduction
​7:00 PM - Lecture begins
7:25 PM - Short break
7:35 PM - Lecture continues
​8:00 PM - Audience Q&A
​8:15 PM - Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
​8:30 PM - Wrap up.

​See you there 🍷 IG: @deepdive.bcn

​*This lecture will be held in English.*

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This one is special. Chris Fields, whose work with researchers like Michael Levin and Karl Friston has reshaped how scientists think about mind and matter, said yes to Deep Dive! One night only, don't wait to book your seat.

​⚛️ Lecture: "What Can Quantum Theory Tell Us About Consciousness?"
🎤 Speaker: Chris Fields, physicist and information scientist working across quantum theory, cognition and consciousness
📍 Location: Keanu Izakaya, Eixample
📅 Saturday, 24 October, doors open at 6:30 PM

​People have been linking quantum theory and consciousness since the 1930s. The problem is that quantum theory says nothing directly about consciousness, and almost every serious theory of consciousness is purely classical. So is the connection real, or just a good story?
​Chris has spent decades on exactly this question. He will show how "bare bones" quantum theory, with nothing mystical added, leads to a picture of the world in which every system, from an atom to you and me, has to use freedom of choice and inferential skill just to stay distinct from its environment. From there it is a surprisingly short step from some systems having experiences to all systems having them, including our environments. The question stops being whether something has experiences, and becomes what it experiences.

​Agenda
6:30 PM - Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line, arriving early is key.
6:55 PM - Host introduction
7:00 PM - Lecture begins
7:30 PM - Short break
7:40 PM - "So what?" discussion
8:00 PM - Q&A
8:10 PM - Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

​See you there 🍷 IG: @deepdive.bcn

​This lecture will be held in English.

Bar lecture: "What Can Quantum Theory Tell Us About Consciousness?"

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