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The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters
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This podcast is a deep exploration of the problem of consciousness. Presented by Jesse Winters, The Hard Problem reviews critical evidence in the neuroscience literature, insights from the philosophy of mind, and the author’s novel ideas in pursuit of a robust theory of consciousness.
Episodes
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The Pseudoscience Letter
Key References: Fleming et al. 'The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness as Pseudoscience' 2023
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The Paradox of Interdependence
Key References: Alan Watts 'This is It' 1958
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Self or Not-Self
Key References: Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rimpoche 'Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness' 1986 Arthur Schopenhauer from 'The Essential Schopenhauer' 2010
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Adversarial Theories
Key References: Elizabeth Finkel ‘Adversarial Search for Neural Basis of Consciousness Yields First Results’, 2023 Lucia Melloni et al. (preprint) ‘An Adversarial Collaboration to Critically Evaluate Theories of Consciousness’, 2023
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On Pursuing What One Wants
Key References: Sebastian Junger 'Tribe' 2016
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Prefrontal Consciousness
Key References: Omri Raccah, Ned Block, and Kieran Fox 'Does the Prefrontal Cortex Play an Essential Role in Consciousness? Insights from Intracranial Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain?' 2021
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Emergence and Non-Duality
Key References: Zoran Josipovic 'Implicit–explicit gradient of nondual awareness or consciousness as such' 2021
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Reality as Territory
Key References: Christoph Durt, Tom Froese, and Thomas Fuchs 'Against AI Understanding and Sentience: Large Language Models, Meaning, and the Patterns of Human Language Use' 2023
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On Dreaming and Daydreaming
Key References: Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold 'When Brains Dream' 2021 Obada Al Zoubi et al. 'Taking the body off the mind: Decreased functional connectivity between somatomotor and default‐mode networks following Floatation‐REST' 2021
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The Lucidity of Conscious States
Key References: Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold 'When Brains Dream' 2021 Hanna Hayat et al. 'Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep' 2020
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Reincarnation and Time
Key References: Albert Einstein 'Relativity' 1916 Dean Buonomano 'Your Brain is a Time Machine' 2017 Carlo Rovelli 'The Order of Time' 2018
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Of Myth and Madness
Key References: Julian Jaynes 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind' 1976 Oliver Sacks 'Hallucinations' 2012
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Mistaken for Consciousness
Key References: Bjorn Merker, Kenneth Williford, and David Rudrauf 'The Integrated Information Theory: A Case of Mistaken Identity' 2022
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Entropy and Pain
Key References: Brett Kagan, Andy Kitchen, Nhi Tran, Forough Habibollahi, Moein Khajehnejad, Bradyn Parker, Anjali Bhat, Ben Rollo, Adeel Razi, and Karl Friston, 'In Vitro Neurons Learn and Exhibit Sentience When Embodied in a Simulated Game World', 2022 Karl Friston 'The Free-Energy Principle: A...
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The Reward Function
Key References: Matthew Hutson 'AI learns the art of diplomacy' 2022 'Lex Fridman Podcast' #344 with Noam Brown, 2022
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Intelligence In Vitro
Key References: Brett Kagan, Andy Kitchen, Nhi Tran, Forough Habibollahi, Moein Khajehnejad, Bradyn Parker, Anjali Bhat, Ben Rollo, Adeel Razi, and Karl Friston, 'In Vitro Neurons Learn and Exhibit Sentience When Embodied in a Simulated Game World', 2022 Fabrizia Claudia Guarnieri, Antoine de...
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Science and Ideology
Key References: 'Great Dialogues of Plato' Translated by W. H. D. Rouse, 1956 The Intercept 'Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans to Police Disinformation', 2022 Jordan Moss and Peter J. O'Connor 'The Dark Triad Traits Predict Authoritarian Political Correctness and Alt-Right Attitudes' 2020
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Intuitions and Elephants
Key References: Jonathan Haidt 'The Righteous Mind' 2012 Oliver Sacks 'The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat' 1970 Kaushal Shah, Shailesh B. Jain, and Roopma Wadhwa 'Capgras Syndrome' 2022
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Awareness and Arousal
Key References: Minji Lee et al. 'Quantifying Arousal and Awareness in Altered States of Consciousness Using Interpretable Deep Learning' 2022 Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004 David Chalmers 'The Conscious Mind' 1996
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Death and Consciousness
Key References: Michael Shermer 'The Believing Brain' 2011 Oliver Sacks 'Hallucinations' 2012 Chris Timmermann et al. 'DMT Models the Near-Death Experience' 2018 Raul Vicente et al. 'Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain' 2022 Jimo Borjigin et al. 'Surge…
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Consciousness and Working Memory
Key References: Jeff Hawkins 'A Thousand Brains' 2021 Boris Velichkovsky 'Consciousness and Working Memory: Current Trends and Research Perspectives' 2017
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Consciousness and Working Memory
Key References: Jeff Hawkins 'A Thousand Brains' 2021 Boris Velichkovsky 'Consciousness and Working Memory: Current Trends and Research Perspectives' 2017
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The Soul and Psyche
Key References: Gregory Koukl 'The Story of Reality' 2017 Aristotle 'Psychology' and 'Ethics'
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Empathy and Will
Key References: Simon Baron-Cohen 'The Science of Evil' 2011 Robert Wright 'Why Buddhism is True' 2017
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Consciousness Rewired
Key References: Steven Pinker 'The Blank Slate' 2003 Jeff Hawkins 'A Thousand Brains' 2021
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The Pure Subject of Knowing
Key References: 'The Essential Schopenhauer' edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, 2010 Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018 Marcus Raichle 'The Brain's Default Mode Network' 2015
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On Being as Suffering
Key References: 'The Essential Schopenhauer' edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, 2010
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The Call to Authenticity
Key References: Sam Harris 'Waking Up' 2015 Carl Rogers 'On Becoming a Person' 1967
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Atman ain’t Brahman
Key References: A.C. Grayling 'A History of Philosophy' 2019 'The Upanishads' translated by Swami Paramananda 1919 Sam Harris 'Waking Up' 2014
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Humility and Anxiety
Key References: Pelin Kesebir 'A Quiet Ego Quiets Death Anxiety: Humility as an Existential Anxiety Buffer' 2014 Roland Griffiths et al. 'Psilocybin Produces Substantial and sustained Decreases in Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Life-threatening Cancer: A Randomized Double-blind Trial'…
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Of Cobwebs and Ghosts
Key References: Gilbert Ryle 'The Concept of Mind' 1949 Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020 Frank Wilczek 'Fundamentals' 2021
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Quining Dennett
Key References: Daniel Dennett 'Quining Qualia' 1988
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Loneliness and Pain
Key References Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020 Julia Groening, Dustin Venini, and Mandyam Srinivasan 'In Search of Evidence for the Experience of Pain in Honeybees: A Self-Administration Study' 2017
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The ABCs of Consciousness
Key References: Colin Hales and Marissa Ericson 'Electromagnetism's Bridge Across the Explanatory Gap: How a Neuroscience/Physics Collaboration Delivers Explanation into All Theories of Consciousness' 2022
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Conversation and Consciousness
Key References: Nico Grant and Cade Metz 'Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims its AI is Sentient' New York Times 2022 Nils Nilsson 'The Quest for Artificial Intelligence' 2010 Mary Papenfuss 'Google Engineer on Leave after He Claims AI Program has gone Sentient' Huffington Post 2022 John Searle...
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Lost in Translation
Key References: Michael Gazzaniga 'Tales from Both Sides of the Brain' 2015 Giulio Avvenuti et al. 'Integrity of Corpus Callosum for the Cross-Hemispheric Propagation of Sleep Slow Waves: A High-Density EEG Study in Split-Brain Patients' 2020
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Madness and Inspiration
Key References: Aldous Huxley 'The Doors of Perception' 1954 Shitij Kapur 'Psychosis as a State of Aberrant Salience: A Framework Linking Biology, Phenomenology, and Pharmacology in Schizophrenia' 2003
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The Cephalo-Podcast
Key References: Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020
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Presence and Time
Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020 John Searle 'Consciousness' 2000
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The Mind’s Levers
Key References: Matthew Lieberman 'Boo! The Consciousness Problem in Emotion' 2018
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The Doors of Deception
Key References: Aldous Huxley 'The Doors of Perception' 1954
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The Evolution of Qualia
Key References: Thurston Lacalli 'Consciousness as a Product of Evolution: Contents, Selector Circuits, and Trajectories in Experience Space' 2021
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The Probability of Consciousness
Key References: Tam Hunt, Marissa Ericson, and Jonathan Schooler 'Where's my Consciousness-Ometer: How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness' 2022 Daniel Dennett 'From Bacteria to Bach and Back' 2017 Jordan Ellenberg 'How Not to Be Wrong' 2014
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Consciousness and Creativity
Key References: Tam Hunt, Marissa Ericson, and Jonathan Schooler 'Where's my Consciousness-Ometer: How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness' 2022
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Consciousness and Individuality
Key References: Jean Piaget 'The Moral Judgement of the Child' 1932 Friedrich Nietzsche 'Beyond Good and Evil' 1886
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Critical Critical Consciousness
Key References: John Stuart Mill 'On Liberty' 1869 Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic 'Critical Race Theory: An Introduction' 2001 Christian Fuchs 'Critical Theory' 2015 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 'The Gulag Archipelago' 1973
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Consciousness and Disorder
Key References: Robert Friedel 'Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified' 2018 Micah Johnson 'How Responsible are Killers with Brain Damage' 2018
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Personality and Consciousness
Key References: Jessie Sun, Scott Barry Kaufman, and Luke Smillie 'Unique Associations Between Big Five Personality Aspects and Multiple Dimension of Well-Being' 2016
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Sanity and Reality
Key References: Rene Descartes 'A Discourse on Method' 1637
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This podcast is a deep exploration of the problem of consciousness. Presented by Jesse Winters, The Hard Problem reviews critical evidence in the neuroscience literature, insights from the philosophy of mind, and the author’s novel ideas in pursuit of a robust theory of consciousness.
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