Complexity & Emergence: Neuroscience and the Unity of Matter and Spirit

Luis O. Jiménez-Rodríguez, S.J. will discuss "Complexity and Emergence: Neuroscience and the Unity of Matter and Spirit" on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 7:00 p.m. in the Church. 

Luis O. Jiménez-Rodríguez, S.J. is a full professor in the School of Theology at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Puerto Rico and associate professor in the Department of Theology at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Until 2017, he was a full professor  at the School of Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, and in 2017, he held the Wade Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computing at Marquette
University. Author of more than 50 book chapters, articles, and books on topics ranging from hyperspectral data analysis, signal processing, pattern recognition, engineering ethics, neuroscience, fundamental theology, and the points of contact between the natural sciences and theology, he holds two doctorates, A Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Purdue University, 1996) and a doctorate in Fundamental Theology (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, 2012). He is currently completing his most recent book, Introduction to Theology for University Students and Restless Adults.

This lecture is sponsored by the Aquinas Educational Foundation, the Religious Studies Program in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and the St. Thomas Aquinas Center.