Dr. Daniel Branco
Harvard-Trained Neuroscientist, Neurologist, Author, Speaker
Dr. Daniel Branco became a physician and a neurologist as part of his pursuit of the understanding of how the brain creates consciousness. As a post-doctoral neuroscientist at Harvard, he pioneered brain mapping techniques to enhance the precision of epilepsy and brain tumor surgeries. Realizing, however, that understanding consciousness solely through the study of the brain was elusive, Daniel shifted his focus to the understanding of consciousness from a combined neuroscientific and spiritual perspective. In his book Spiriduality: Spiritual Initiation for Rational People, he discusses whether the brain creates consciousness or consciousness creates the brain. The answer to this question is the ultimate frontier for mankind as we know it. Connect with Dr. Daniel at www.danielbranco.com.
Recent Articles
A Verb, Not a Position
Not long ago a student of mine sent me a chart. One page, dense type, ten colored families. It was Robert Lawrence Kuhn’s “Landscape of Consciousness,” drawn by the neuroscientist Alex Gomez-Marin: a heroic attempt to map every serious answer to the question of what consciousness is. Ten varieties of materialism. Quantum theories. Panpsychisms, monisms, dualisms, idealisms. Some two hundred named positions, each with its champions, its journals, and its quiet certainty that the other hundred and ninety-nine are confused.
What Happens When a Rational Neuroscientist Has a Near-Death Experience? – An Interview with Dr. Daniel Branco
Most of us never stop to ask the question; we simply assume the brain is in charge and consciousness is just along for the ride. In this conversation, Dr. Daniel Branco, a Harvard-trained neurologist who once mapped the human brain for surgeons, challenges that assumption from hard-won experience. He shares the story of the heart attack that left him unconscious for ten minutes, and the profound peace he found in that silence, an experience that sent him searching for answers science alone couldn’t give him.