Episodes

Nov. 12, 2025

Why Does Consciousness Exist? Integrated World Modeling Theory & the …

What is consciousness actually doing?In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, neuroscientist and theorist Dr Adam Safron joins Dr Tevin Naidu to explore one of the most ambitious frameworks in contemporary consciousness science...

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Nov. 5, 2025

Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious? The Epistemic Fog of Artifici…

What if tomorrow's AI stares back with hidden inner life - and we're blind to it? Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel shares his new thesis from AI and Consciousness (2026): an unbreakable "fog" of uncertainty means we'll build leg...

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Oct. 29, 2025

The Meaning Crisis, Process Cosmology & Whitehead's Universe | Mind-a…

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, Alfred North Whitehead’s pr...

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Oct. 22, 2025

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

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 of science, UC Irvine) an...

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Oct. 15, 2025

What is the Mind's Eye? The Science of Imagination, Aphantasia & Cons…

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) joins Dr Tevin Naidu on Mind-...

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Oct. 10, 2025

Introducing the Mind-at-Large Project: A New Paradigm in Consciousnes…

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 presence across scales, from quan...

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Oct. 3, 2025

Do We All Have an Inner Voice? Descriptive Experience Sampling & Myth…

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 speaks with Professor Russell H...

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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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