Where does consciousness come from?

Reanimation! is a seven-part series created by seven animation teams and 12 scientists, writers, engineers, physicists, and an archaeologist, on the lasting impact of Shelley’s famous work.

Each episode waxes poetic about different scientific, ethical, and philosophical domains and the lessons we’ve collectively learned from Dr. Frankenstein’s mistakes and triumphs.

In the third episode, A Spark of Consciousness, David Chalmers, renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist and Danbee Kim, a comparative neuroscientist, tease apart the complicated nature of behavior and its relationship to neural circuitry as well as the environment. What exactly makes us conscious and why? Animated by the amazing Rosanna Wan with sound by Skillbard.