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Aug. 26, 2025

Can We Cure Cancer? How We (Mis)Treat Cancer, How We Can Do Better, and Why We Must | Azra Raza

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-selling author of "The First Cell: And the human costs of pursuing cancer to…

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July 3, 2025

What is Life? Information, Intelligence, and the Ineffable within Science | Aaron Sloman

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 of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. In 2018, he…

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June 6, 2025

What are Biological Robots? How AI is Reshaping Life, Consciousness & Matter | Josh Bongard

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 crowdsourced robots, as well as computer-designed organisms. In 2007, he was awarded a prestigious Microsoft Research New Faculty…

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May 23, 2025

Can We Engineer Consciousness? Quantum Physics, Robotics & Conscious AI Tech | Suzanne Gildert

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 experimental quantum physics from the University of Birmingham in the UK. Suzanne is a prolific technology inventor with dozens of…

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May 9, 2025

What is Life? Complexity, Cognition & the Origin of Purpose | Terrence Deacon & Michael Levin

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 come together in conversation for the very first time: "A Biology Revolution". Terrence Deacon is Professor and Chair of…

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May 1, 2025

Is the Universe Ensouled with Experience? Consciousness, Cosmology, and Meaning | Matthew Segall

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 the Cobb Institute. He is a transdisciplinary researcher, writer, teacher, and philosopher applying process-relational thought across the…

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April 3, 2025

A New Approach to Consciousness? From the Perspective of a Panpsychism of Models | Susan Blackmore

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 the University of Surrey (1980). Her research interests include memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, and…

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March 6, 2025

What is Exogenous Mind Theory? Metaphysics, Psychedelics, & Mind At Large | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

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 states of consciousness. He is a lecturer at The University of Exeter. Peter is the author of Noumenautics (2015),…

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Feb. 22, 2025

What is Field Theory? Unseen Fields Guide All Goal-Directed Things in the Universe | Daniel McShea

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 Robert Brandon, Biology's First Law, he argues that the complexity of organisms will…

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Feb. 12, 2025

What is The Split-Body Problem? Rethinking Our Understanding of How Life Reproduces | Gunnar Babcock

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 Doctorate in Philosophy from the University at Albany, SUNY. His research is primarily in…

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Jan. 30, 2025

How Did Matter Become Conscious & Alive? Living Mirrors Theory & The Dawn of Mind | James Cooke

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 for over a decade at institutions such as Oxford University, University of California, Berkeley, University…

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Jan. 23, 2025

Is Consciousness a Quantum Orchestra? Microtubules, Objective Reduction, & Orch OR | Stuart Hameroff

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, protein lattices which organize activities within living cells. Hameroff and colleagues developed theories of microtubules as self-organizing molecular…

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Jan. 15, 2025

Is Life Purposeful? A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Living Systems | Denis Noble & Raymond Noble

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 developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart. He is also a philosopher of…

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Jan. 7, 2025

Can Physics Explain Consciousness? A Relativistic Theory & the Equivalence Principle | Nir Lahav

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 Relativistic Theory of Consciousness - a new physical theory in order to solve the…

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Sept. 24, 2024

Landscape of Consciousness? Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations & Implications | Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, PhD., is the creator, executive producer, writer, and host of @CloserToTruthTV the PBS/public television series on Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning that presents leading scientists, philosophers, and creative thinkers discussing fundamental questions. Dr Kuhn has published over 30 books, including The Mystery of Existence: Why is there…

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Sept. 17, 2024

What is a Theory of Consciousness for? Quantum Mechanics, Minds & Minimal Physicalism | Chris Fields

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 entities. He began his career as an experimental physicist, obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science (University of Colorado, Boulder, 1985), and was…

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Sept. 10, 2024

What are Conscious Exotica? Consciousness, AI & the Space of Possible Minds | Murray Shanahan

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) and Cambridge University (King’s College; PhD computer science), he became a full Professor at Imperial, and joined DeepMind. His publications span artificial intelligence, machine…

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Sept. 3, 2024

Did Mind Emerge From Matter? Origin of Life, Causal Emergence, & Descartes' Shadow | Terrence Deacon

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 combines developmental evolutionary biology and comparative neuroanatomy to investigate the evolution of human cognition, and is particularly focused on the explanation of emergent…

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Aug. 27, 2024

Is the Mind Just the Brain? Materialism & the Problem with Phenomenal Consciousness | David Papineau

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 at Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of Robinson College. He did a BSc…

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Aug. 8, 2024

What is One Consciousness? Bridging the Gap between Quantum & Classical Reality | Federico Faggin

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 that qualia reside in quantum fields. Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A…

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July 30, 2024

What is Descartes Prison? Illusionism as Intuition Pumps for Consciousness Theories | Keith Frankish

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 Crete. He is the author of "Mind and Supermind" & "Consciousness", as well…

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July 23, 2024

Is Consciousness All There Is? The Field of All Possibilities | Tony Nader

Tony Nader is a Medical Doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic Scholar. @DrTonyNader is an author and fellow podcaster, with his book titled: "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness" and his podcast titled: "Consciousness Is All There Is", which…

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July 4, 2024

Can Science Untangle the World-Knot of Consciousness? Philosophy of Mind & Meaning | John Vervaeke

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 the director of the Cognitive Science program, and the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory.…

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June 26, 2024

What is Synthbiosis? Diverse Intelligence Beyond AI & The Space of Possible Minds | Michael Levin

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. @drmichaellevin holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative…

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