Episodes

Oct. 7, 2023

Lawrence Krauss: Does Science Need Philosophy? The Unbelievers, Known…

Lawrence Krauss is a world-renowned theoretical physicist, commentator, bestselling author, President of The Origins Project Foundation and host of the Origins Podcast. He is one of the few prominent scientists today to have ...

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Oct. 2, 2023

François Kammerer: Is Consciousness Real? Illusionism As A Theory Of …

François Kammerer is a French Philosopher of Mind. He received training in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (MA) and at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (PhD). After his PhD, he held positions as a lecturer in ...

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Oct. 2, 2023

Mark Solms: How Do Dreams Relate To Consciousness? Why We Dream & The…

Professor Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he ...

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Sept. 17, 2023

Randolph Nesse: Are There Good Reasons For Bad Feelings? The Evolutio…

Randolph Nesse is the Founder of Evolutionary Medicine & Psychiatry. He is Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan; Research Professor ...

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Sept. 11, 2023

Stephen Grossberg: How Does Each Brain Make A Mind? Adaptive Resonanc…

Stephen Grossberg is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems & Director of the Cent...

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Aug. 19, 2023

Michael Levin: What Is The Field Of Diverse Intelligence (DI)? All Po…

Michael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University. He holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regener...

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Aug. 12, 2023

Kevin Mitchell: How Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? Free Agents & Co…

Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is a graduate of the Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin (B.A., Mod. 1991) and received his Ph.D. from the University of...

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Aug. 6, 2023

Tim Maudlin: Was Einstein Wrong? Bell's Inequality & Universal Non-Lo…

Tim Maudlin is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. He studied physics and philosophy at Yale University, and history and philosophy of science...

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July 28, 2023

Ogi Ogas: How Did Thinking Emerge From Chaos? Journey Of The Mind, Su…

Ogi Ogas is a Mathematical Neuroscientist and Author. He attained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University. He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his graduate studies, and is t...

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July 22, 2023

Thomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhoo…

Thomas Metzinger is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He is the author of The Ego Tunnel and Being No One (MIT Press), the coeditor of Open MIND, and the editor of Neural Correla...

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July 16, 2023

Tevin Naidu: What is Mind-Body Solution? A Quest to Conquer the Mind-…

Special thanks to Sigma Series for allowing me to re-post this wonderful interview on Mind-Body Solution. Formerly named "The Truth", "Sigma Series" seeks to better understand the fundamental nature of reality through philoso...

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July 10, 2023

Bernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Unde…

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (ontolo...

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July 3, 2023

Jude Currivan: Is The Universe A Cosmic Hologram? The Holographic Pri…

Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Readin...

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June 26, 2023

Susan Blackmore: Did Religions Evolve To Exploit Us? God's Memes & Co…

Susan Blackmore is a freelance 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 parapsych...

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June 19, 2023

Donald Hoffman: Can Consciousness Create Reality? New Experiment to T…

Donald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and...

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June 9, 2023

Karl Friston: Is The Brain A Statistical Organ? The Free Energy Princ…

Professor Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history. He is Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich, University of York and Radboud Un...

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June 2, 2023

Angela Mendelovici: What Is The Role Of Qualia? Phenomenal Intentiona…

Angela Mendelovici' is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Philosophy at The Australian National University, a graduate student at the D...

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May 20, 2023

Christof Koch: Can Consciousness Be Quantified? Integrated Informatio…

Professor Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program. He received his baccalaureate from the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and hi...

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Jan. 30, 2023

Noam Chomsky: Do We Have Free Will? Moral Responsibility & The Meanin…

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist. Known as "the father of modern linguistics", Ch...

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Oct. 24, 2022

Tony Nader: Is Everything Consciousness? One Unbounded Ocean Of Consc…

Dr Tony Nader is a Medical Doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD. in Neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic Scholar. Dr Nader is an author and fellow podcaster, with his b...

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Sept. 13, 2022

Rebecca Goldstein: What's The Matter with Matter & Why Does It Matter…

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a novelist, public intellectual and Professor of Philosophy. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague P...

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Aug. 28, 2022

Bernardo Kastrup: Is Consciousness The Fundamental Reality? Analytic …

Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (ontolo...

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Aug. 11, 2022

Philip Goff: Is Everything Conscious? Panpsychism & The Purpose Of Th…

Philip Goff is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. His main research interest is consciousness, although he also has a sideline in political philosophy (taxation, globalisation, social justice). He blo...

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July 24, 2022

Helen Yetter-Chappell: Is Consciousness Everything? Quasi-Berkeleyan …

Helen Yetter-Chappell is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She received her PhD from Princeton University, and has since been a Bersoff Fellow at NYU and a lecturer at the University of York. Sh...

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