Human Mind Project
The Human Mind Project was an international research project launched by the University of London that aimed to provide new insight into how the mind works. [1] It was launched in 2014 with Dr. Mattia Gallotti as project coordinator[2], a role which was later taken over by Anna Hopkins, Professor of Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University. [3] The project was closed with a Final Report in 2019.
Goals of the project
The goal of the Human Mind Project was to serve as a research hub, in order to facilitate interdisciplinary work to gain insight into the human mind. By integrating the sciences and the humanities, the project aimed to identify the key challenges where work and funding should be focused on. Unlike the Human Brain Project, which has tried to gain understanding of the mind by simulating the brain and made specific assumptions on the brain's functions and processes, the Human Mind Project intended to encourage research targeting some of the basic questions about the mind: what is its basic nature, its function, its origin and its mechanisms.
Project results
The main outcome of the project was the identification of the Grand Challenges, [4] which are a set of research directions to be followed in order to gain insight into the human mind. Some of these directions are:
- to understand which mental capacities are distinctively human
- to provide a general account of the mind that can be reconciled with individual and cultural differences
- to explore the role of imagination
- to accommodate the interactions of the body and the mind
- to characterize the relation of emotion, cognition and social processing
- to provide an account of the contribution that language makes to the human mind
- to cast light on the role of artistic production and aesthetic response
- to map out the consequences of neurobiological findings.
The project participants hoped that these challenges will encourage collaboration between disciplines, especially across the arts and humanities, and the sciences. They believe that only such broad collaboration can provide real insight into what the mind is and how it works.
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