REFLECTIONS ON THE EDUCATIONAL POSSIBILITIES OF STUDYING THE EMERGENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS BASED ON A WEB CONFERENCE

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This article investigates the experience of holding a web conference on the origin and characteristics of consciousness in 2021, with simultaneous transmission to anyone interested on YouTube. This work sought to articulate research, teaching and extension, with the objective of examining the possibilities of approaching the theme of the emergence of consciousness in the context of scientific dissemination and science teaching activities. To support the investigation, a broad theoretical review was carried out on different topics related to the study of consciousness. Particularly, conceptions present in the field of Philosophy of Science were analyzed on the concept of emergence of new characteristics in more complex levels of organization. Academic works generally stress the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the phenomenon of consciousness. A questionnaire was prepared, in the format of a “Google Form”, to investigate the conceptions of the participants of the web conference about the themes addressed in it. This questionnaire was answered by a total of 19 participants. The data obtained point to the importance of implementing scientific dissemination activities on frontier topics in science, as is the case of the study of the emergence of consciousness.