Podcast Episodes

Stephen Grossberg: How Does Each Brain Make A Mind? Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) & Consciousness

Episode 40

Stephen Grossberg is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Syst…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Michael Levin: What Is The Field Of Diverse Intelligence (DI)? All Possible Intelligent Agents

Episode 37

Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University. He holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and th…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

What is the Mind-Body Problem? Mind-Body Solution with Dr Tevin Naidu

What is the Mind-Body Problem? Are we minds with bodies? Are we bodies with minds? What is the mind-body connection? Does consciousness render the mind-body problem intractable? Mind-Body Solution ta…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Kevin Mitchell: How Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? Free Agents & Cognitive Realism

Episode 36

Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is a graduate of the Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin (B.A., Mod. 1991) and received his Ph…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Tim Maudlin: Was Einstein Wrong? Bell's Inequality & Universal Non-Locality

Episode 35

Tim Maudlin is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. He studied physics and philosophy at Yale University, and history…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Ogi Ogas: How Did Thinking Emerge From Chaos? Journey Of The Mind, Supermind & Beyond

Episode 34

Ogi Ogas is a Mathematical Neuroscientist and Author. He attained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University. He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Thomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood & Epistemic Agent Model

Episode 33

Thomas Metzinger is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He is the author of The Ego Tunnel and Being No One (MIT Press), the coeditor of Open MIND, and th…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Tevin Naidu: What is Mind-Body Solution? A Quest to Conquer the Mind-Body Problem

Episode 32

Special thanks to Sigma Series for allowing me to re-post this wonderful interview on Mind-Body Solution. Formerly named "The Truth", "Sigma Series" seeks to better understand the fundamental nature …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Bernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Understanding Analytic Idealism

Episode 31

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a P…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Jude Currivan: Is The Universe A Cosmic Hologram? The Holographic Principle & Infodynamics

Episode 30

Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. She holds a PhD in Archaeology fro…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago