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Bernardo Kastrup - Analytic Idealism
Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup takes the “hard problem of consciousness” and completely turns it inside out. Kastrup’s PhD dissertation titled Analyt…
1 year, 5 months ago
Stephen Wolfram - On the Nature of Time
In his article, On the Nature of Time, Stephen Wolfram describes the computational model he has for the universe and how that results in a new way to…
1 year, 5 months ago
Michael Graziano - Attention Schema Theory
You know how in cartoons sometimes they show a dotted line from a person’s eyes to show what the person is looking at? It turns out, that we actuall…
1 year, 6 months ago
Carlo Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics
Do things have properties in and of themselves, or is a thing only what it seems to be to its observer and the interactions it has with other things?…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ernst Mach - Analysis of Sensations
The physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (for whom the unit of velocity as compared to the speed of sound was named), brings us today’s episode, base…
1 year, 6 months ago
Chris Fields - What are our Bodies?
Thanks to the recommendation of a friend at book club, I bring you today’s episode which instead of being based on an article, is based on a YouTube …
1 year, 6 months ago
George Berkeley - Three Dialogues
The Three Dialogues, written in 1713 by George Berkeley lays out his philosophy of “indeterminism” via a series of dialogues between two characters: …
1 year, 6 months ago
William James - Radical Empiricism
The NotebookLM tool that I use to generate these podcasts just got an upgrade which allows me to provide input to the “hosts” as to how they approach…
1 year, 6 months ago
Second Persons and the Constitution of the First Person
If the sense of being a “me” is an illusion, where does it come from? That’s a topic that Professor Jay Garfield covers in today’s article called: S…
1 year, 6 months ago
How and Why Consciousness Arises
Today’s article is called HOW AND WHY CONSCIOUSNESS ARISES: SOME CONSIDERATIONS FROM PHYSICS AND PHYSIOLOGY by Mark Solms and Karl Friston.
What I f…
1 year, 6 months ago