All Episodes

Is Science Blind to Human Experience? Rethinking Life, Mind, the Universe and Meaning | Adam Frank

Is The Brain an Analog Computer? Consciousness as Dynamic Brainwave Organization | Earl Miller

Is Your Whole Body Conscious? Biological Idealism: From Cells to Selves | Anna Ciaunica

Does Consciousness Require a Subject? The Self, Agency & AI Limitations | Kevin Mitchell

What is Ultimately Real? Consciousness, Free Energy & Spacetime | Donald Hoffman & Karl Friston

Neuroscience Beyond Neurons in the Diverse Intelligence Era | Michael Levin & Robert Chis-Ciure

What is Consciousness? Nested Observer Windows, Meta-Awareness & Mind Wandering | Jonathan Schooler

Why Get Together? How Life, Mind & Machines Evolve via Integration | Josh Bongard & Richard Watson

What if the Brain Doesn’t Create Consciousness? Irreducible Mind & Beyond Physicalism | Edward Kelly

What if the Brain Does NOT Create Consciousness?

Can Consciousness Access the Future? Precognition, Time & the Transcendental Mind | Julia Mossbridge

The Meaning Crisis, Process Philosophy, Psychedelics & Religion | Jared Morningstar & John Buchanan

Does Consciousness Survive Death? The Science of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) | Pim van Lommel

Can AI Ever Be Conscious? Machine Phenomenology, Ethics of AI & the Future of Mind | Susan Schneider

What Are Traces of Consciousness? A New Breakthrough Unifying Mind and Reality | Donald Hoffman

Consciousness Beyond Materialism: A New Framework for Mind & Reality | Elly Vintiadis

Why Does Consciousness Exist? Integrated World Modeling Theory & the Cybernetic Mind | Adam Safron

Will We Know When AI Becomes Conscious? The Epistemic Fog of Artificial Minds | Eric Schwitzgebel

What is the Mind-Body Problem?

The Meaning Crisis, Process Cosmology & Whitehead's Universe | Mind-at-Large Project

Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other | Lauren Ross & Megan Peters

What is the Mind's Eye? The Science of Imagination, Aphantasia & Consciousness | Adam Zeman

Introducing the Mind-at-Large Project: A New Paradigm in Consciousness Research | Mind-Body Solution

Is Inner Speech Universal? Descriptive Experience Sampling & Myths of the Mind | Russell Hurlburt

Is Consciousness Fundamental? Interfaces of Reality & Mathematizing Phenomenology | Robert Prentner

What is Quantum Reality? Consciousness, Beyond Spacetime & Into Possibility | Ruth Kastner

What is Fear? Memory, Emotion & the Malleability of the Mind | Daniela Schiller

Is it Possible to Engineer Artificial Consciousness? | Karl Friston & Mark Solms

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

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

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

Suzanne Gildert: Can We Engineer Consciousness? Quantum Physics, Robotics & Conscious AI Technology

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

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

Susan Blackmore: A New Approach to Consciousness from the Perspective of a Panpsychism of Models

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tom Campbell: How Do We Leave The Simulation? Consciousness Beyond The Virtual Reality

Tom Campbell: Are We Living In A Simulation? Consciousness & A Theory Of Everything

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tony Nader: Is Consciousness All There Is? The Field of All Possibilities & The Ultimate Singularity

John Vervaeke: Can Science Untangle the World-Knot of Consciousness? Relevance Realization & Meaning

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

Roy Baumeister: Do Humans Have Free Will? The Self, Ego Depletion Theory, Self Control & Willpower

Johnjoe McFadden: Is Consciousness An Electromagnetic Information Field? The CEMI Field Theory

Tevin Naidu: What is Consciousness? Theories of Consciousness & The Mind-Body Solution

Brian Keating: What Is Space, Time, & Matter? The Origin & Evolution Of The Universe

Curt Jaimungal: What Is A Theory Of Everything? Theories Of Everything /\ Mind-Body Solution

Stephen Law: Could God be Evil? Belief in the Supernatural & The Evil God Challenge

Ogi Ogas: Can this Unified Theory of Consciousness Explain all States of Mind? The Hard Problem

Donald Hoffman: What is an "Observer"? New Discovery in Search of "One" Consciousness Beyond Reality

Karl Friston: How does Death Shape Life? Mortal Computation & the Field of Diverse Intelligence

Stephen Grossberg: A Unified Theory of Consciousness? Adaptive Resonance Theory & The Hard Problem

Michael Muthukrishna: What is a Theory of Everyone? Who We Are, How We Got Here & Where We're Going

Michael Shermer: Why Do The Rational Believe The Irrational? Biases, Fallacies, & Skepticism 101

Edouard Machery: When does Science go Wrong? Issues with Common Sense & Folk Ideology

John Horgan: Can Science Explain Everything? Scientism & Philosophy's Role In Science

Anand Vaidya: What Is Pure Consciousness? Non-Dualism & Indian Philosophy Of Mind

David Wolpert: What Can We Really Know About That Which We Cannot Even Imagine? No Free Lunch

Manil Suri: Can We Build The Universe Using Only Math? The Big Bang Of Numbers

Avi Loeb: Where is Everybody? Fermi's Paradox & the Scientific Search For Extraterrestrial Life

Lawrence Krauss: Does Science Need Philosophy? The Unbelievers, Known Unknowns & Edge Of Knowledge

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

Mark Solms: How Do Dreams Relate To Consciousness? Why We Dream & The Felt Uncertainty Theory

Randolph Nesse: Are There Good Reasons For Bad Feelings? The Evolution of Mental Disorder

Stephen Grossberg: How Does Each Brain Make A Mind? Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) & Consciousness

Michael Levin: What Is The Field Of Diverse Intelligence (DI)? All Possible Intelligent Agents

Kevin Mitchell: How Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? Free Agents & Cognitive Realism

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

Ogi Ogas: How Did Thinking Emerge From Chaos? Journey Of The Mind, Supermind & Beyond

Thomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood & Epistemic Agent Model

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

Bernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Understanding Analytic Idealism

Jude Currivan: Is The Universe A Cosmic Hologram? The Holographic Principle & Infodynamics

Susan Blackmore: Did Religions Evolve To Exploit Us? God's Memes & Consciousness Delusionism

Donald Hoffman: Can Consciousness Create Reality? New Experiment to Test CA Theory's Implications

Karl Friston: Is The Brain A Statistical Organ? The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference

Angela Mendelovici: What Is The Role Of Qualia? Phenomenal Intentionality Theory & Consciousness

Christof Koch: Can Consciousness Be Quantified? Integrated Information Theory & Neural Correlates

Noam Chomsky: Do We Have Free Will? Moral Responsibility & The Meaning Of Life

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

Rebecca Goldstein: What's The Matter with Matter & Why Does It Matter? The Mind-Body Problem

Bernardo Kastrup: Is Consciousness The Fundamental Reality? Analytic Idealism & The Cosmic Mind

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

Helen Yetter-Chappell: Is Consciousness Everything? Quasi-Berkeleyan Idealism Without God

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keith Frankish: Is Consciousness an Illusion? Illusionism & its Ethical Implications

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

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