All Episodes

AI and Consciousness: The Turing Test

Balazs Szigeti: Unblinding Effects in Psychedelic Research

Dr. Valerie Bonnelle: The autonomic nervous system and peak experience

Dr. Bradley Cooke: The National Institutes of Health

Compass Pathway's Dr. Steve Levine

Psychedelic Science 2025

Joshua Miele: Connecting Dots

Expanding our Moral Circle with Philosopher Jeff Sebo

Dreaming (part 3) with Antti Revonsuo

Dreams and Anaesthesia: Guest Pilleriin Sikka

Why do we dream?

Daniel Dennett: A Retrospective

AI and Cognition with Daniel Sternberg

Autism with guest Matthew Goodwin

Donald Hoffman's Case Against Reality

Episode 53: Beckley Retreats CEO Neil Markey on guided psychedelic retreats

Episode 52: The IIT controversy with Felipe De Brigard

Episode 51: Robin Carhart-Harris: The promise of psychedelics

Episode 50: Neural Interfaces

Episode 49: The Self: Bundle and Ego Theories

Episode 48: Psychedelic Science 2023

Episode 47: Street Epistemology with Mark Solomon

Episode 46: Manesh Girn: Psychedelics and Brain Networks

Episode 45: Blame and Political Attitudes: Gail Sahar

Episode 44: Daniel Sternberg: The State of Artificial Intelligence

Episode 43: Stephanie Preston: Our Attachment to Stuff

Episode 42: The Science of Sleep with Dr. Aric Prather

Episode 41: The Marshmallow Test

Episode 40: Embodied Cognition

Episode 39: Matthew Gingo: Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them

Episode 38: Flawless Predictions for 2022

Episode 37: Dr. Joshua Miele: The Blind Arduino Project

Episode 36: The Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul

Episode 35: NIH Toolbox with Dr. Julie Hook

Episode 34: Tom Vanderbilt: Beginners

Episode 33: Flawless Predictions For 2021

Episode 32: On Consciousness with Bernard Baars

Episode 31: Music and the Brain: Guests David Rosen and Scott Miles

Episode 30: When Microwaves Continue to Attack

Episode 29: Time Perception and Dopamine

Episode 28: Chris Baty: National Novel Writing Month, Creativity, and Life as a Narrative

Episode 27: The Connectome

Episode 26: COVID-19 and the Behavioral Immune System: Joshua Ackerman

Episode 25: NASA Data Scientist Chris Mattmann

Episode 24: Childrens' Learning and Play: Guest David Sobel

Episode 23: Flawless Predictions for the 2020s

Episode 22: The Neuroscience of Free Will: Guest Aaron Schurger

Episode 21: Pain perception and treatment: Guest Mike Trujillo

Episode 20: Improving medical treatment in hearing loss: Guest Erick Gallun

Episode 19: Concussions, TBI, and Sports

Episode 18: The Psychology of Religion with David Wulff

Episode 17: Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority

Episode 16: Dopamine with Michael Frank

Episode 15: Speech Synthesis From Neural Signals

Episode 14: Color, Concepts, and Design: Guest Karen Schloss

Episode 13: Blue Light and Sleep

Episode 12: The Future of Medical Education: Guest Brent Stansfield

Episode 11: Intelligence

Episode 10: Augmenting the Brain

Episode 9: Self-Control as a Resource

Episode 8: Artificial Life

Episode 7: Heroism and Heroic Actions: Stephanie Preston

Episode 6: The Illusion of Conscious Will

Episode 5: Reading the Mind with EEG: Adrian Nestor

The Frey Effect, Continued: Dr. Beatrice Golomb

The Frey Effect (or, When Microwaves Attack)

Brain-Computer Interfaces, part A

Brain-Computer Interfaces, part B

Episode 2: Using Virtual Reality for Therapy

Episode 1: Building machines that think like us