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Adam Frank

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

Length 56 min

Earl Miller

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

Length 1 hr 15 min

Anna Ciaunica

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

Length 2 hr 5 min

Kevin Mitchell

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

Length 1 hr 35 min

Donald Hoffman & Karl Friston

What is Ultimately Real? Consciousness, Free Energy & Spacetime

Length 2 hr 40 min

Michael Levin & Robert Chis-Ciure

Neuroscience Beyond Neurons in the Diverse Intelligence Era

Length 1 hr 28 min

Jonathan Schooler

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

Length 2 hr 4 min

Josh Bongard & Richard Watson

Why Get Together? How Life, Mind & Machines Evolve via Integration

Length 2 hr 2 min

Edward Kelly

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

Length 1 hr 50 min

Dr Tevin Naidu

What if the Brain Does NOT Create Consciousness?

Length 3 min

Julia Mossbridge

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

Length 1 hr 27 min

Jared Morningstar & John Buchanan

The Meaning Crisis, Process Philosophy, Psychedelics & Religion

Length 1 hr 39 min

Pim van Lommel

Does Consciousness Survive Death? The Science of Near-Death Experiences (NDE)

Length 1 hr 2 min

Susan Schneider

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

Length 1 hr 49 min

Donald Hoffman

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

Length 2 hr 49 min

Elly Vintiadis

Consciousness Beyond Materialism: A New Framework for Mind & Reality

Length 1 hr 17 min

Adam Safron

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

Length 1 hr 46 min

Eric Schwitzgebel

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

Length 1 hr 31 min

Dr Tevin Naidu

What is the Mind-Body Problem?

Length 4 min

Mind-at-Large Project

The Meaning Crisis, Process Cosmology & Whitehead's Universe

Length 1 hr 39 min

Lauren Ross & Megan Peters

Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other

Length 2 hr 13 min

Adam Zeman

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

Length 1 hr 18 min

Dr Tevin Naidu

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

Length 1 hr 51 min

Russell Hurlburt

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

Length 1 hr 56 min

Robert Prentner

Is Consciousness Fundamental? Interfaces of Reality & Mathematizing Phenomenology

Length 1 hr 3 min

Ruth Kastner

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

Length 1 hr 10 min

Daniela Schiller

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

Length 1 hr 3 min

Karl Friston & Mark Solms

Is it Possible to Engineer Artificial Consciousness?

Length 1 hr 33 min

Azra Raza

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

Length 1 hr 14 min

Aaron Sloman

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

Length 1 hr 9 min

Josh Bongard

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

Length 1 hr 21 min

Suzanne Gildert

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

Length 1 hr 35 min

Terrence Deacon & Michael Levin

What is Life? Complexity, Cognition & the Origin of Purpose

Length 1 hr 30 min

Matthew Segall

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

Length 1 hr 19 min

Susan Blackmore

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

Length 1 hr 1 min

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

What is Exogenous Mind Theory? Metaphysics, Psychedelics, & Mind At Large

Length 1 hr 42 min

Daniel McShea

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

Length 1 hr 7 min

Gunnar Babcock

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

Length 1 hr 2 min

James Cooke

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

Length 1 hr 17 min

Stuart Hameroff

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

Length 1 hr 37 min

Denis Noble & Raymond Noble

Is Life Purposeful? A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Living Systems

Length 1 hr 58 min

Nir Lahav

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

Length 1 hr 35 min

Tom Campbell

How Do We Leave The Simulation? Consciousness Beyond The Virtual Reality

Length 3 hr 15 min

Tom Campbell

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

Length 3 hr 27 min

Robert Lawrence Kuhn

A Landscape of Consciousness? Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations & Implications

Length 1 hr 49 min

Chris Fields

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

Length 1 hr 13 min

Murray Shanahan

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

Length 1 hr 20 min

Terrence Deacon

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

Length 3 hr 9 min

David Papineau

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

Length 1 hr 20 min

Federico Faggin

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

Length 1 hr 45 min

Keith Frankish

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

Length 2 hr 49 min

Tony Nader

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

Length 1 hr 17 min

John Vervaeke

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

Length 2 hr 1 min

Michael Levin

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

Length 1 hr 26 min

Roy Baumeister

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

Length 1 hr 21 min

Johnjoe McFadden

Is Consciousness An Electromagnetic Information Field? The CEMI Field Theory

Length 1 hr 19 min

Dr Tevin Naidu

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

Length 1 hr 7 min

Brian Keating

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

Length 1 hr 14 min

Curt Jaimungal

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

Length 2 hr 35 min

Stephen Law

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

Length 1 hr 19 min

Ogi Ogas

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

Length 1 hr 51 min

Donald Hoffman

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

Length 2 hr 27 min

Karl Friston

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

Length 1 hr 56 min

Stephen Grossberg

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

Length 1 hr 54 min

Michael Muthukrishna

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

Length 1 hr 40 min

Michael Shermer

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

Length 2 hr 10 min

Edouard Machery

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

Length 1 hr 5 min

John Horgan

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

Length 1 hr 36 min

Anand Vaidya

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

Length 2 hr 2 min

David Wolpert

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

Length 50 min

Manil Suri

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

Length 1 hr 12 min

Avi Loeb

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

Length 1 hr 53 min

Lawrence Krauss

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

Length 1 hr 1 min

François Kammerer

Is Consciousness Real? Illusionism As A Theory Of Consciousness

Length 1 hr 49 min

Mark Solms

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

Length 1 hr 36 min

Randolph Nesse

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

Length 1 hr 50 min

Stephen Grossberg

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

Length 2 hr 19 min

Michael Levin

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

Length 1 hr 56 min

Kevin Mitchell

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

Length 2 hr 1 min

Tim Maudlin

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

Length 1 hr 53 min

Ogi Ogas

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

Length 2 hr 17 min

Thomas Metzinger

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

Length 2 hr 16 min

Dr Tevin Naidu

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

Length 1 hr 54 min

Bernardo Kastrup

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

Length 2 hr 28 min

Jude Currivan

Is The Universe A Cosmic Hologram? The Holographic Principle & Infodynamics

Length 1 hr 15 min

Susan Blackmore

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

Length 58 min

Donald Hoffman

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

Length 2 hr 11 min

Karl Friston

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

Length 2 hr 2 min

Angela Mendelovici

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

Length 59 min

Christof Koch

Can Consciousness Be Quantified? Integrated Information Theory & Neural Correlates

Length 1 hr

Noam Chomsky

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

Length 1 hr 21 min

Tony Nader

Is Everything Consciousness? One Unbounded Ocean Of Consciousness

Length 1 hr 44 min

Rebecca Goldstein

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

Length 1 hr 8 min

Bernardo Kastrup

Is Consciousness The Fundamental Reality? Analytic Idealism & The Cosmic Mind

Length 1 hr 52 min

Philip Goff

Is Everything Conscious? Panpsychism & The Purpose Of The Universe

Length 1 hr 40 min

Helen Yetter-Chappell

Is Consciousness Everything? Quasi-Berkeleyan Idealism Without God

Length 1 hr 28 min

Chris Frith

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

Length 1 hr 33 min

Helen Steward

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

Length 58 min

Mark Solms

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

Length 1 hr 51 min

Noam Chomsky

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

Length 37 min

Iain McGilchrist

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

Length 1 hr 59 min

Donald Hoffman

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

Length 2 hr 4 min

Michael Levin

What Is Bioelectrical Intelligence? Technological Approach To Minds Everywhere

Length 1 hr 16 min

Patricia Churchland

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

Length 1 hr 27 min

Gregg Caruso

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

Length 1 hr 58 min

Eric Schwitzgebel

A Weird World? Universal Bizarreness Thesis & Perplexities of Consciousness

Length 2 hr 2 min

Ralph Lewis

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

Length 2 hr 7 min

Menachem Fisch

Is Science Limited? Understanding Normativity & Moving Away from Scientism

Length 1 hr 18 min

Risto Miikkulainen

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

Length 1 hr 16 min

Raymond Tallis

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

Length 1 hr 39 min

Nicholas Humphrey

Why did Consciousness Evolve? Evolution of Sentience & Phenomenal Surrealism

Length 2 hr 28 min

Keith Frankish

Is Consciousness an Illusion? Illusionism & its Ethical Implications

Length 3 hr

Lisa Feldman Barrett

How Do Brains Work? How Emotions are Made & the Derivation of Meaning

Length 1 hr 1 min

Michael Graziano

Rethinking Consciousness? Attention Schema Theory & the Science of Subjectivity

Length 1 hr 34 min