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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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Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Information and Consciousness
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Key References:
Christof Koch 'Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist' 2012
Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Marcello Massimini, and Christof Koch 'Integrated information theory: from consciousness to its physical substrate' 2016
Sam Harris 'Waking Up' 2014
Jesse Winters 'The Temporally Integrated Causality Landscape: A Theoretical Framework for Consciousness and Meaning' 2020

Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Consciousness and Posterior Cortex
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Key References:
Kingson Man, Jonas Kaplan, Antonio Damasio, and Kaspar Meyer 'Sight and Sound Converge to Form Modality-Invariant Representations in Temperopariatel Cortex' 2012
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Christof Koch, Marcello Massamini, Melanie Boly, and Giulio Tononi 'Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Progress and Problems' 2016
Michael Alkire, Anthony Hudetz, and Giulio Tononi 'Consciousness and Anesthesia' 2008

Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Planning and Consciousness
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Key References:
Christof Koch 'Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist' 2012
Tim Shallice 'From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure' 1988
Marcus Aurelius 'Meditations' 180 AD
Jordan Peterson '12 Rules for Life' 2018
Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, and Thomas Jessell 'Principles of Neural Science' 2000

Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Confabulation and Conscious Will
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Key References:
Daniel Wagner 'The Illusion of Conscious Will' 2002
Joseph LeDoux 'The Cognitive Neuroscience of Mind' 2010
Michael Gazzaniga 'Tales from Both Sides of the Brain' 2015
Bertrand Russell 'The Analysis of Mind' 1921
Gilbert Ryle 'The Concept of Mind' 1949
David Hume 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' 1748

Thursday Nov 12, 2020
On Darkness and Nothingness
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Key References:
Oliver Sacks 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' 1970
Tim Shallice 'From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure' 1988
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004

Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Reading and Consciousness
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Key References:
Tim Shallice 'From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure' 1988
Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, Thomas Jessell 'Principles of Neural Science' 2000
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004

Thursday Oct 29, 2020
The Locus of Consciousness
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Key References:
Rene Descartes 'A Discourse on Method' 1637
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Dean Buonomano 'Your Brain is a Time Machine' 2017

Thursday Oct 22, 2020
The Resemblance of Consciousness
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Key References:
C.L. Hardin 'Color for Philosophers' 1988
Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986
Frank Jackson 'Epiphenomenal Qualia' 1982
Daniel Dennett 'Consciousness Explained' 1991

Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Outside of Consciousness
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Key References:
Lawrence Weiskrantz 'Consciousness Lost and Found' 1997
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Daniel Dennett 'Consciousness Explained' 1991

Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Consciousness as a Qualitative Evaluator
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Key References:
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Benjamin Libet 'Mind Time' 2004
Daniel Wegner 'The Illusion of Conscious Will' 2002