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Susan Blackmore: Did Religions Evolve To Exploit Us? God's Memes & Consciousness Delusionism
Episode 29
Susan Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer, broadcaster, and Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK. She has a degree in psychology and physiology from Oxford University (1973) an …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Donald Hoffman: Can Consciousness Create Reality? New Experiment to Test CA Theory's Implications
Episode 28
Donald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an author of over…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Karl Friston: Is The Brain A Statistical Organ? The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference
Episode 27
Professor Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history. He is Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich, Univers…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Angela Mendelovici: What Is The Role Of Qualia? Phenomenal Intentionality Theory & Consciousness
Episode 26
Angela Mendelovici' is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Philosophy at The Australian National University, a…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Christof Koch: Can Consciousness Be Quantified? Integrated Information Theory & Neural Correlates
Episode 25
Professor Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program. He received his baccalaureate from the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Noam Chomsky: Do We Have Free Will? Moral Responsibility & The Meaning Of Life
Episode 24
Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist. Known as "the father …
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Tony Nader: Is Everything Consciousness? One Unbounded Ocean Of Consciousness
Episode 23
Dr Tony Nader is a Medical Doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD. in Neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic Scholar. Dr Nader is an author and fe…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago
Rebecca Goldstein: What's The Matter with Matter & Why Does It Matter? The Mind-Body Problem
Episode 22
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a novelist, public intellectual and Professor of Philosophy. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College…
Published on 3 years, 3 months ago
Bernardo Kastrup: Is Consciousness The Fundamental Reality? Analytic Idealism & The Cosmic Mind
Episode 21
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 3 years, 4 months ago
Philip Goff: Is Everything Conscious? Panpsychism & The Purpose Of The Universe
Episode 20
Philip Goff is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. His main research interest is consciousness, although he also has a sideline in political philosophy (taxation, globalisatio…
Published on 3 years, 4 months ago