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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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Sep 17, 2021
Sep 17, 2021
19 min
Key References:
Olaf Blanke and Thomas Metzinger 'Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood' 2009
Sep 10, 2021
Sep 10, 2021
21 min
Key References:
Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018
Raphael Milliere et al. 'Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness' 2018
Sep 3, 2021
Sep 3, 2021
18 min
Key References:
Gerald M. Edelman and Vernon B. Mountcastle 'The Mindful Brain' 1978
Aug 26, 2021
Aug 26, 2021
17 min
Key References
Adrien Doerig, Aaron Schurger, Kathryn Hess, and Michael Herzog 'The Unfolding Argument: Why IIT and Other Causal Theories Cannot Explain Consciousness' 2019
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Aug 20, 2021
Aug 20, 2021
16 min
Key References:
Bernardo Kastrup 'Bernardo Kastrup's Small Theory of Everything' 2015 (YouTube)
Simone Reinders 'Cross-examining dissociative identity disorder: Neuroimaging and etiology on trial' 2008
Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021
15 min
Key References:
Arthur C. Clarke 'Childhood's End' 1953
Carl Sagan 'Cosmos' 1980
Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021
22 min
Key References:
Tam Hunt and Jonathan Schooler 'The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness' 2019
Jul 29, 2021
Jul 29, 2021
16 min
Key References:
George Northoff and Zirui Huang 'How do the brain's time and space mediate consciousness and its different dimensions? Temporo-spatial theory of consciousness (TTC)' 2017
Jul 23, 2021
Jul 23, 2021
19 min
Key References:
Lachlan Kent and Marc Whitmann 'Time Consciousness: The Missing Link in Theories of Consciousness' 2021
Jesse Winters 'The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: A Theoretical Framework for Consciousness and Meaning' 2020
Jul 15, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
19 min
Key References:
Stephen Hawking 'The Universe in a Nutshell' 2001
Oliver Sacks 'Hallucinations' 2012
Donald Hoffman 'The Case Against Reality' 2019
Marvin Minsky 'The Society of Mind' 1985