Decoding Consciousness and Bioethics

Alberto García Gómez is the Dean and Professor of Philosophy of Law and International Law at the School of Bioethics of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He is also a Researcher of the Human Rights Institute at Complutense University of Madrid and a member of the Steering Committee of Bioethics in the Council of Europe. In 2005, he was honored with the National Prize of the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors in the field of legal and social sciences.Alberto Carrara is the Director of the Neurobioethics Research Group of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights, and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. He is also Doctor in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Padua, Italy, and in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum. His research fields are anthropology, philosophy of mind, bioethics, neuroethics, neuroscience, and biotechnology.