Episodes

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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Aug. 27, 2024

David Papineau: Is the Mind Just the Brain? Materialism & the Problem…

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 taught for several years ...

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Aug. 8, 2024

Federico Faggin: What is the One Consciousness? Bridging the Gap betw…

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 of consciousness proposes ...

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Aug. 2, 2024

Keith Frankish: What is Descartes' Prison? Illusionism as Intuition P…

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 Neurosciences at the University of...

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July 23, 2024

Tony Nader: Is Consciousness All There Is? The Field of All Possibili…

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 podcaster, with his book titl...

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July 4, 2024

John Vervaeke: Can Science Untangle the World-Knot of Consciousness? …

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 Psychology department. He is th...

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June 26, 2024

Michael Levin: What is Synthbiosis? Diverse Intelligence Beyond AI & …

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 Vannevar Bush endowed Chair ...

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June 8, 2024

Roy Baumeister: Do Humans Have Free Will? The Self, Ego Depletion The…

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 scientists alive today. I...

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June 1, 2024

Johnjoe McFadden: Is Consciousness An Electromagnetic Information Fie…

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 London. He is an accomplished s...

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June 1, 2024

Tevin Naidu: What is Consciousness? Theories of Consciousness & The M…

This interview with me was hosted by Dr Tony Nader on his wonderful podcast "Consciousness Is All There Is" where we discussed the various pros and cons of different theories of consciousness. If you enjoy MBS, you will love ...

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May 24, 2024

Brian Keating: What Is Space, Time, & Matter? The Origin & Evolution …

Brian Keating is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inve...

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May 18, 2024

Curt Jaimungal: What Is A Theory Of Everything? Theories Of Everythin…

Curt Jaimungal is a Torontonian filmmaker and podcast host, with a Degree in Mathematical Physics from the University of Toronto. His channel "Theories of Everything" (TOE) analyses various "Theories of Everything" by explori...

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