Podcast Episodes

What is the Mind-Body Problem?

What is the Mind-Body Problem?For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have asked how an inner world of experience could emerge from an outer world of matter.From Plato and Descartes to mo…

Published on 2 months ago

The Meaning Crisis, Process Cosmology & Whitehead's Universe | Mind-at-Large Project

Episode 95

In this conversation, Dr Andrew M. Davis joins Dr Tevin Naidu for a deep exploration of meaning, process philosophy, and the evolving story of consciousness. They discuss the modern meaning crisis, A…

Published on 2 months ago

Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other | Lauren Ross & Megan Peters

Episode 94

Why do science and philosophy so often stand apart - and what happens when they come back together?In this thought-provoking conversation, Dr Tevin Naidu brings together Prof Lauren Ross (philosopher…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

What is the Mind's Eye? The Science of Imagination, Aphantasia & Consciousness | Adam Zeman

Episode 93

What does it really mean to see with the mind’s eye?In this conversation, neurologist and consciousness researcher Professor Adam Zeman (Cognitive & Behavioural Neurologist, University of Exeter) joi…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Introducing the Mind-at-Large Project: A New Paradigm in Consciousness Research | Mind-Body Solution

Episode 92

The Mind-at-Large Project is a three-year, multidisciplinary initiative exploring consciousness and its role in reality. Mind-at-Large seeks to expand this paradigm - investigating the mind’s presenc…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Is Inner Speech Universal? Descriptive Experience Sampling & Myths of the Mind | Russell Hurlburt

Episode 91

What really goes on in our inner lives? Do we all think in words, narrating our experience with a constant "inner voice"? Or is that just a myth of the mind?In this conversation, Dr Tevin Naidu speak…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Is Consciousness Fundamental? Interfaces of Reality & Mathematizing Phenomenology | Robert Prentner

Episode 90

Can phenomenology, the study of lived experience, be rigorously formalized in mathematics without losing its essence?In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, I speak with Professor Robert Prentner, a p…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

What is Quantum Reality? Consciousness, Beyond Spacetime & Into Possibility | Ruth Kastner

Episode 89

In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, Dr Tevin Naidu speaks with Dr Ruth Kastner, physicist and philosopher, about her groundbreaking Possibilist Transactional Formulation (PTF) of quantum theory. K…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

What is Fear? Memory, Emotion & the Malleability of the Mind | Daniela Schiller

Episode 89

What if our memories weren’t fixed, but flexible? And what if the key to understanding fear, emotion, and consciousness lies in how the brain constantly reshapes experience?In this episode of Mind-Bo…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Is it Possible to Engineer Artificial Consciousness? | Karl Friston & Mark Solms

Episode 88

Professors Karl Friston & Mark Solms, pioneers in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and theoretical biology, delve into the frontiers of consciousness: "Can We Engineer Artificial Consciousness…

Published on 4 months ago