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When Life Gives You a Brain — 61 episodes

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Is Seeing Really Believing?

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Looking for Meaning

3

Does the Mind Need a Body?

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What Gives Brain Activity Meaning?

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Does your Brain Represent the Outside World?

6

Could a Language Model Know What a Dog Is?

7

How to Talk to Aliens

8

Hello? Is There Anybody in There?

9

If It Predicts, Is It Intelligent?

10

How to Build a Brain

11

Does Consciousness Come Along for the Ride?

12

Why is Complexity So Complex?

13

Could Entropy Explain Consciousness?

14

Information Isn't Free. Even Demons Must Pay

15

A Short History of the Mind (and some of the Weird Things We've Thought About It)

16

Consciousness: Does the Matter Matter?

17

Coffee With a Shot of Qualia?

18

False Memories are Exactly What You Need

19

Yes, We Can Delete Memories. But...

20

Memory Is Your Brain Making Things Up

21

Mary's Room: Has the Answer Been in Her Textbook All Along?

22

How the Blind Use Echolocation to See

23

Sure, Nagel's Bat Paper is a Classic, But...

24

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? 50 Years On

25

The Phantom Pain Puzzle

26

Why Do You Hurt?

27

Disembodied Pain and the Limits of Armchair Philosophy

28

Ain't Got No Body: What 'Her' Reveals About Being Human

29

Can We Have a Mind Without a Body?

30

The P-Zombie Argument

31

The Mind of a Crow

32

Is Everything We Imagine Possible?

33

Ex Machina: What Would AI Think of Us?

34

The Science of Out-of-Body Experiences

35

Non-Reductive Materialism: Can Physicalists Have Their Cake and Choose to Have It Too?

36

How Science Thinks about Consciousness

37

Does the Mind Exist? Understanding Eliminative Materialism

38

The Unity of Consciousness and The Binding Problem

39

Will AI Ever Be Conscious?

40

Functionalism: Why the Most Popular Consciousness Theory Might be Wrong

41

Functionalism: The Mind is What the Brain Does.

42

The Mind of an Octopus

43

Identity Theory: the Mind is the Brain

44

The Woman Who Was Hung, Survived, and Sparked the Birth of Cognitive Neuroscience

45

The Code that Cures Blindness

46

What Exists and What is Imagined?

47

Brain Computer Interface: A Primer

48

Physicalism: Are You Just a Brain?

49

Do Animals Dream? Even Flies?

50

What is Information? The Ins and the Outs [Part 2]

51

What is Information? The Ins and the Outs [Part 1]

52

Panpsychism: Is Everything Conscious?

53

Are Fish More Self Aware than Dogs?

54

AI Will Not Kill Science

55

Epiphenomenalism: Is Consciousness a By-Product?

56

Can AI Generate New Ideas?

57

What Musk's Neuralink Will Actually Do

58

Solipsism -- It's Just You

59

Do Neural Networks See the World Like Us?

60

Substance Dualism and the Interaction Problem

61

The Homunculus Fallacy and the Infinite Regress