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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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Jul 23, 2020
Jul 23, 2020
22 min
Key References:
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Annaka Harris 'Conscious' 2019
Jul 14, 2020
Jul 14, 2020
19 min
Key References:
William James 'The Principles of Psychology' 1890
Michael Pitts, Lydia Lutsyshyna, and Steven Hillyard 'The Relationship between attention and consciousness: An expanded taxonomy and implications for no-report paradigms' 2018
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Michael Graziano 'The attention schema theory: A mechanistic account of subjective awareness' 2015
Jul 8, 2020
Jul 8, 2020
16 min
Key References:
Michael Gazzaniga 'Tales from Both Sides of the Brain' 2015
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Jul 1, 2020
Jul 1, 2020
17 min
Key References:
Michael Gazzaniga 'Tales from Both Sides of the Brain' 2015
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Daniel Dennett 'Consciousness Explained' 1991
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986
Stanislas Dehaene 'Consciousness and the Brain' 2014
Jun 25, 2020
Jun 25, 2020
19 min
Key References:
A.C. Grayling 'The History of Philosophy' 2019
Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986
David Chalmers 'The Conscious Mind' 1996
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Jesse Winters 'The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: A Theoretical Framework for Consciousness and Meaning' 2020
Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Marcello Massimini, and Christof Koch 'Integrated Information Theory: From Consciousness to its Physical Substrate' 2016
Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020
19 min
Key References:
Eric Kandel 'The Disordered Mind' 2018
Bradley Postle 'The Hippocampus, Memory, and Consciousness' 2016
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Jun 17, 2020
Jun 17, 2020
16 min
Key References:
William James 'The Principles of Psychology' 1890
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Alex Holcombe 'Seeing Slow and Seeing Fast: Two Limits on Perception' 2009
Giulio Tononi, Melanie Boly, Marcello Massimini, and Christof Koch 'Integrated Information Theory: From Consciousness to its Physical Substrate' 2016
Jun 8, 2020
Jun 8, 2020
18 min
Key References:
Julian Jaynes 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind' 1976
David Chalmers 'The Conscious Mind' 1996
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi 'Consciousness: Here, There, and Everywhere' 2015
Victor Lamme 'Challenges for Theories of Consciousness: Seeing or Knowing, the Missing Ingredient, and How to Deal with Panpsychism' 2018
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
18 min
Key References:
Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986
George Mashour 'Consciousness, Anesthesia, and Neural Synchrony' 2013
Hal Blumenfeld 'The Neurology of Consciousness Chapter 16 'Epilepsy and Consciousness'' 2016
Francesca Siclari et al. 'The Neural Correlates of Dreaming' 2017
Christof Koch 'The Quest for Consciousness' 2004
Christof von der Malsburg 'The What and Why of Binding: A Modeler's Perspective' 1999
May 29, 2020
May 29, 2020
17 min
Key References:
David Chalmers 'The Conscious Mind' 1996
Marcello Massimini and Giulio Tononi 'Sizing Up Consciousness' 2018
Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986
Thomas Nagel 'Mind and Cosmos' 2012