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When Life Gives You a Brain — 61 episodes
Is Seeing Really Believing?
Looking for Meaning
Does the Mind Need a Body?
What Gives Brain Activity Meaning?
Does your Brain Represent the Outside World?
Could a Language Model Know What a Dog Is?
How to Talk to Aliens
Hello? Is There Anybody in There?
If It Predicts, Is It Intelligent?
How to Build a Brain
Does Consciousness Come Along for the Ride?
Why is Complexity So Complex?
Could Entropy Explain Consciousness?
Information Isn't Free. Even Demons Must Pay
A Short History of the Mind (and some of the Weird Things We've Thought About It)
Consciousness: Does the Matter Matter?
Coffee With a Shot of Qualia?
False Memories are Exactly What You Need
Yes, We Can Delete Memories. But...
Memory Is Your Brain Making Things Up
Mary's Room: Has the Answer Been in Her Textbook All Along?
How the Blind Use Echolocation to See
Sure, Nagel's Bat Paper is a Classic, But...
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 50 Years On
The Phantom Pain Puzzle
Why Do You Hurt?
Disembodied Pain and the Limits of Armchair Philosophy
Ain't Got No Body: What 'Her' Reveals About Being Human
Can We Have a Mind Without a Body?
The P-Zombie Argument
The Mind of a Crow
Is Everything We Imagine Possible?
Ex Machina: What Would AI Think of Us?
The Science of Out-of-Body Experiences
Non-Reductive Materialism: Can Physicalists Have Their Cake and Choose to Have It Too?
How Science Thinks about Consciousness
Does the Mind Exist? Understanding Eliminative Materialism
The Unity of Consciousness and The Binding Problem
Will AI Ever Be Conscious?
Functionalism: Why the Most Popular Consciousness Theory Might be Wrong
Functionalism: The Mind is What the Brain Does.
The Mind of an Octopus
Identity Theory: the Mind is the Brain
The Woman Who Was Hung, Survived, and Sparked the Birth of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Code that Cures Blindness
What Exists and What is Imagined?
Brain Computer Interface: A Primer
Physicalism: Are You Just a Brain?
Do Animals Dream? Even Flies?
What is Information? The Ins and the Outs [Part 2]
What is Information? The Ins and the Outs [Part 1]
Panpsychism: Is Everything Conscious?
Are Fish More Self Aware than Dogs?
AI Will Not Kill Science
Epiphenomenalism: Is Consciousness a By-Product?
Can AI Generate New Ideas?
What Musk's Neuralink Will Actually Do
Solipsism -- It's Just You
Do Neural Networks See the World Like Us?
Substance Dualism and the Interaction Problem
The Homunculus Fallacy and the Infinite Regress