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July 6, 2022

What Is The Function of Consciousness? The Evolutionary Purpose Of Conscious Minds | Chris Frith

Chris Frith is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London (UCL), Visiting Professor at the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Academy of…

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June 28, 2022

Why Do We Have Free Will? Libertarianism & The Advantage Of Agency | Helen Steward

Helen Steward is Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Action at the University of Leeds. Her interests include the metaphysics and ontology of mind and agency; the free will problem; the relation between humans and animals; and the philosophy of causation and explanation. She joined the University of Leeds in…

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May 24, 2022

Where Is The Source Of Consciousness? The Hidden Spring & The Cortical Fallacy | Mark Solms

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 is director of Neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments…

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May 16, 2022

What Is The Mind-Body Problem? The Hard Problem Of Consciousness & Materialism | Noam Chomsky

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”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field…

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April 27, 2022

Why Are Our Brains Divided? Hemispheric Differences And Its Impact On The Mind | Iain McGilchrist

Iain McGilchrist is a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,…

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April 12, 2022

Is Reality An Illusion? Interface Theory of Perception & Conscious Realism | Donald Hoffman

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 three books, including “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.”…

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March 22, 2022

What Is Bioelectrical Intelligence? Technological Approach To Minds Everywhere | Michael Levin

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 Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Prior to college, Michael Levin worked as a software engineer…

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March 17, 2022

Why Do We Have A Conscience? Moral Intuition & Eliminative Materialism | Patricia Churchland

Patricia Churchland is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. She holds degrees from Oxford University, the University of Pittsburg and the University of British Columbia. She has contributed to the fields of philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of…

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March 15, 2022

Is Free Will Real? Hard Incompatibilism, Moral Luck & Rejecting Retributivism | Gregg Caruso

Gregg Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free…

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March 9, 2022

A Weird World? Universal Bizarreness Thesis & Perplexities of Consciousness | Eric Schwitzgebel

Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford and his PhD in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley. He blogs at The Splintered Mind and is the author of Perplexities of Consciousness (2011) and A Theory of Jerks and Other…

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Feb. 26, 2022

Can We Find Purpose Without God? Why We Care Even if the Universe Doesn't | Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada and a psycho-oncology consultant at the Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. Dr. Lewis writes a popular and widely praised blog series,…

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Feb. 16, 2022

Is Science Limited? Understanding Normativity & Moving Away from Scientism | Menachem Fisch

Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Senior Fellow of the Goethe University Frankfurt's Forschungskolleg Humanwisseschaften, Bad Homburg. He has published widely on the history of 19th…

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Feb. 13, 2022

What are "Other" Minds? Neuroevoloution of Past, Present & Future Minds | Risto Miikkulainen

Risto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and AVP of Evolutionary Intelligence at Cognizant AI Labs. He received an M.S. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in…

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Feb. 10, 2022

Are We Destined for Freedom? A Case for Compatibilism & Ontological Agnosticism | Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and at St Thomas’ in London and has 4 honorary degrees: DLitt (Hull, 1997) and…

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Aug. 9, 2021

Why did Consciousness Evolve? Evolution of Sentience & Phenomenal Surrealism | Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Humphrey is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities, & Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge. He has been Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford, Assistant Director of the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow in Parapsychology at…

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Aug. 2, 2021

Is Consciousness an Illusion? Illusionism & its Ethical Implications | 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 25, 2021

How Do Brains Work? How Emotions are Made & the Derivation of Meaning | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science…

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July 12, 2021

Rethinking Consciousness? Attention Schema Theory & the Science of Subjectivity | Michael Graziano

Michael Graziano is a scientist and novelist who is currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He’s a best-selling author and has written several books including “Consciousness and the Social Brain”, “Re-thinking Consciousness”, “The Spaces Between Us”, and much more. His scientific research at Graziano Lab focuses…

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