Episodes

Sept. 26, 2025

Is Consciousness Fundamental? Interfaces of Reality & Mathematizing P…

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 philosopher and interdiscip...

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Sept. 17, 2025

What is Quantum Reality? Consciousness, Beyond Spacetime & Into Possi…

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. Kastner argues that quantum...

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Sept. 14, 2025

What is Fear? Memory, Emotion & the Malleability of the Mind | Daniel…

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-Body Solution, Dr Tevin Naid...

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Sept. 2, 2025

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

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?". From mimicry to qualia...

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Aug. 26, 2025

Azra Raza: Can We Cure Cancer? How We (Mis)Treat Cancer, How We Can D…

Dr Azra Raza is a Professor of Medicine, Clinical Director of the Evans Foundation MDS Center, and Executive Director of The First Cell Coalition for Cancer Survivors at Columbia University in New York. She is the best-sellin...

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July 3, 2025

Aaron Sloman: What is Life? Information, Intelligence, and the Ineffa…

Aaron Sloman is Emeritus/Honorary Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at University of Birmingham, UK. He is a Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Society for the Study...

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June 6, 2025

Josh Bongard: What are Biological Robots? How AI is Reshaping Life, C…

Josh Bongard is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and director of the Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory. His work involves automated design and manufacture of soft-, evolved-, and crowdsour...

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June 6, 2025

Suzanne Gildert: Can We Engineer Consciousness? Quantum Physics, Robo…

Dr Suzanne Gildert, Roboticist & Quantum Physicist, is the CEO-founder of Nirvanic Consciousness Technologies, a quantum-AI technology company innovating “Conscious AI” for improved AI decision-making. She holds a Ph.D. in ex...

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May 9, 2025

Terrence Deacon & Michael Levin: What is Life? Complexity, Cognition …

Professor Terrence Deacon & Professor Michael Levin have both shaped the fields of developmental evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and so much more. In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, these distinguished giants com...

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May 1, 2025

Matthew Segall: Is the Universe Ensouled with Experience? Consciousne…

Matthew David Segall, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Department at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for...

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April 3, 2025

Susan Blackmore: A New Approach to Consciousness from the Perspective…

Susan Blackmore is a 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 MSc and a PhD in parapsychology from...

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March 6, 2025

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes: What is Exogenous Mind Theory? Metaphysics, Ps…

Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Spinoza—and in fields pertaining to panpsychism, pantheism, mental causation, and altered ...

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March 6, 2025

Daniel McShea: What is Field Theory? Unseen Fields Guide All Goal-Dir…

Daniel McShea is Professor of Biology, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is a scientist, philosopher and author. His work focuses on 2 main areas: 1) Evolution of Complexity: In a 2010 book with Rob...

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March 6, 2025

Gunnar Babcock: What is The Split-Body Problem? Rethinking Our Unders…

Dr Gunnar Babcock is a lecturer in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biology at Duke University. He received his Doctora...

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Jan. 30, 2025

James Cooke: How Did Matter Become Conscious & Alive? Living Mirrors …

Dr James Cooke, PhD trained is a neuroscientist, speaker, and writer. He holds three degrees from Oxford University (a PhD and Masters in Neuroscience & a BA in Experimental Psychology). He has conducted scientific research f...

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Jan. 25, 2025

Stuart Hameroff: Is Consciousness a Quantum Orchestra? Microtubules, …

Stuart Hameroff MD is Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Hameroff became interested in intelligent behavior of microtubules...

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Jan. 25, 2025

Denis Noble & Raymond Noble: Is Life Purposeful? A Paradigm Shift in …

Denis Noble is Emeritus Professor and co-Director of Computational Physiology who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford. He is one of the pioneers of systems biology and deve...

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Jan. 25, 2025

Nir Lahav: Can Physics Explain Consciousness? A Relativistic Theory &…

Dr Nir Lahav PhD, is a Physicist from Bar-Ilan University, now at Cambridge University. His field of study is in Neuroscience and Consciousness studies. He uses network theory, non linear dynamics and chaos. He developed The ...

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Dec. 21, 2024

Tom Campbell: How Do We Leave The Simulation? Consciousness Beyond Th…

🚀 Journey through Consciousness & Out of the Body with Dr Tom Campbell 🌌 In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, we go on a mind-expanding journey through altered states of consciousness as we sit down with Tom Campbell, a se...

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Dec. 21, 2024

Tom Campbell: Are We Living In A Simulation? Consciousness & A Theory…

Thomas Campbell is a Nuclear Physicist, Lecturer, and Author of the "My Big T.O.E." (Theory of Everything) trilogy. He worked as a physicist in technology development and complex-system risk analysis for both government and i...

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Sept. 24, 2024

Robert Lawrence Kuhn: A Landscape of Consciousness? Toward a Taxonomy…

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, PhD., is the creator, executive producer, writer, and host of Closer To Truth, the PBS/public television series on Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning that presents leading scientists, philosophers,...

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Sept. 17, 2024

Chris Fields: What is a Theory of Consciousness for? Quantum Mechanic…

WATCH: https://youtu.be/jW2C3ZNzijE Chris Fields, PhD., is an independent scientist interested in both the physics and the cognitive neuroscience underlying the human perception of objects as spatially and temporally bounded ...

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Sept. 10, 2024

Murray Shanahan: What are Conscious Exotica? Consciousness, AI & the …

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 (BSc(Eng) computer science)...

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Sept. 3, 2024

Terrence Deacon: Did Mind Emerge From Matter? Origin of Life, Causal …

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, Berkeley. His research combin...

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