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Murray Shanahan: What are Conscious Exotica? Consciousness, AI & the Space of Possible Minds
Episode 71
WATCH: https://youtu.be/MrV9IwZd3qE Murray Shanahan is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Educated at Imperial College (…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Terrence Deacon: Did Mind Emerge From Matter? Origin of Life, Causal Emergence, & Descartes' Shadow
Episode 70
WATCH: https://youtu.be/_Kj2OgkxGa0 Terrence Deacon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berk…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
David Papineau: Is the Mind Just the Brain? Materialism & the Problem with Phenomenal Consciousness
Episode 69
Professor David Papineau is a British academic philosopher. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and previously…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Federico Faggin: What is the One Consciousness? Bridging the Gap between Quantum & Classical Reality
Episode 68
Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. A new groundbreaking theory …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Keith Frankish: What is Descartes' Prison? Illusionism as Intuition Pumps for Consciousness Theories
Episode 67
Keith Frankish is a Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, & an Adjunct Professor with the Brain & Mind Programme in Neurosci…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Tony Nader: Is Consciousness All There Is? The Field of All Possibilities & The Ultimate Singularity
Episode 66
Tony Nader is a Medical Doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic Scholar. Tony is an author and fellow pod…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
John Vervaeke: Can Science Untangle the World-Knot of Consciousness? Relevance Realization & Meaning
Episode 64
John Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning Professor at the University of Toronto in the departments of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Buddhist Psychology. He currently teaches courses in the Psych…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Michael Levin: What is Synthbiosis? Diverse Intelligence Beyond AI & The Space of Possible Minds
Episode 63
Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University and associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University. He holds the Va…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Roy Baumeister: Do Humans Have Free Will? The Self, Ego Depletion Theory, Self Control & Willpower
Episode 62
Professor Roy F. Baumeister is one of the world’s most prolific and influential Psychologists. He has published over 700 scientific works, including over 40 books, and is one of the most highly cited…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Johnjoe McFadden: Is Consciousness An Electromagnetic Information Field? The CEMI Field Theory
Episode 61
Johnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry at the University of London, and his PhD at Imperial College Londo…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago