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This podcast is a deep exploration of the problem of consciousness. Presented by Jesse Winters, The Hard Problem reviews critical evidence in the neuroscience literature, insights from the philosophy of mind, and the author’s novel ideas in pursuit of a robust theory of consciousness.
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Feb 18, 2021
Feb 10, 2021
Feb 10, 2021
19 min
Key References:
Bertrand Russell 'The Analysis of Mind' 1921
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
21 min
Key References:
Jaak Panksepp 'Affective Neuroscience' 1998
Bertrand Russell 'The Analysis of Mind' 1921
Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
19 min
Key References:
Bret Weinstein and Deborah Ciszek 'The reserve-capacity hypothesis: evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair' 2002
Dean Buonomano 'Your Brain is a Time Machine' 2017
Jan 21, 2021
Jan 21, 2021
20 min
Key References:
Oliver Sacks 'Hallucinations' 2012
Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018
Edward Hubbard and V.S. Ramachandran 'Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Synesthesia' 2005
Donald Hoffman 'The Case Against Reality' 2019
Jan 14, 2021
Jan 14, 2021
25 min
Key References:
Philip Goff 'Galileo's Error' 2019
William James 'Pragmatism' 1907
Donald Hoffman 'The Case Against Reality' 2019
Rene Descartes 'Discourse on Method' 1637
Jan 7, 2021
Jan 7, 2021
21 min
Key References:
Philip Goff 'Galileo's Error' 2019
Christof Koch 'Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist' 2012
Dec 30, 2020
Dec 30, 2020
20 min
Key References:
Daniel Dennett 'Consciousness Explained' 1991
Jaak Panksepp 'Affective Neuroscience' 1998
Philip Goff 'Galileo's Error' 2019
Dec 23, 2020
Dec 14, 2020
Dec 14, 2020
21 min
Key References:
Winters et al. 'Functional deficit in hippocampal activity during fear extinction recall in the single prolonged-stress model of PTSD in male rats' 2020
Edvard Moser, Emilio Kropff, and May-Britt Moser 'Place Cells, Grid Cells, and the Brain's Spatial Representation System' 2008
Stanislas Dehaene 'Consciousness and the Brain' 2014