conversation with david poeppel

my aim was to talk with david about his time at the institute, how he sees it and its work now that he is about to leave it to become director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute. inevitably, the conversation soon became more fundamental, touching upon topics like what counts as an aesthetic experience at all, levels of explanation and complexity, the relation between neuroscience and the humanities, the beholders share, and whether it’s really all there in the brain. there simply was no way to keep it brief.