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Mind-Body SolutionThe Turing Test vs The Garland Test: Murray Shanahan on Consciousness in Ex MachinaMurray Shanahan is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Educated at Imperial College (BSc(Eng) computer science) and Cambridge University (King’s College; PhD computer science), he became a full Professor at Imperial, and joined DeepMind. His publications span artificial intelligence, machine learning, logic, dynamical systems, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. He was Scientific Advisor on the film Ex Machina (2014). He has written several books, including “Embodiment and the Inner Life” (2010) and “The Technological Singularity” (2015).Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrV9IwZd3qETitle: "Murray Shanahan: What are C...2025-02-2711 minMind-Body SolutionLife is Simple: Science is Occam's Razor | Johnjoe McFaddenJohnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry at the University of London, and his PhD at Imperial College London. He is an accomplished scientist and author. He has written several books, including "Quantum Evolution: Life in the Multiverse" (2000), "Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology" (2014), and his latest book "Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe" (2021). His research interests include systems biology, mycobacterial genetics, pathogenicity of tuberculosis, neisserial genetics, pathogenicity of meningococcal meningitis. However, along with...2025-02-2754 minMind-Body SolutionJames Cooke: How Did Matter Become Conscious & Alive? Living Mirrors Theory & The Dawn of MindDr James Cooke, PhD trained is a neuroscientist, speaker, and writer. He holds three degrees from Oxford University (a PhD and Masters in Neuroscience & a BA in Experimental Psychology). He has conducted scientific research for over a decade at institutions such as Oxford University, University of California, Berkeley, University College London, Trinity College Dublin, and Riken Brain Sciences Institute in Tokyo. James is the author of The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive (2024), which synthesizes science and spiritual insight to offer a radical solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness. He is the founder of the "...2025-01-301h 17Mind-Body SolutionIain McGilchrist Debunks Pop Psychology Myths About Brain Hemisphere DifferencesIain McGilchrist is a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original research on neuroimaging in schizophrenia, the phenomenology of schizophrenia, and other topics. Some of his many books include "The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain...2025-01-2811 minMind-Body SolutionA Synopsis of Spinoza's Metaphysics | Peter Sjöstedt-HughesDr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Spinoza—and in fields pertaining to panpsychism, pantheism, mental causation, and altered states of consciousness. He is a lecturer at The University of Exeter. Peter is the author of Noumenautics (2015), Modes of Sentience (2021), co-editor and contributor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022), the TEDx Talker on ‘psychedelics and consciousness‘, and he is inspiration to the recreation of inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.
Lecture Title: "A Synopsis of Spinoza's Metaphysics"
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- Peter's...2025-01-2516 minMind-Body SolutionStuart Hameroff: Is Consciousness a Quantum Orchestra? Microtubules, Objective Reduction, & Orch ORStuart Hameroff MD is Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Hameroff became interested in intelligent behavior of microtubules, protein lattices which organize activities within living cells. Hameroff and colleagues developed theories of microtubules as self-organizing molecular computers. In the 1990s Hameroff teamed with Sir Roger Penrose on the controversial Penrose-Hameroff "Orch OR" model of consciousness based on quantum computing in brain neuronal microtubules, a notion bolstered by recent evidence. Hameroff also organizes the biennial interdisciplinary conferences, The Science of Consciousness Conference. The Science of Consciousness (‘TS...2025-01-251h 37Mind-Body SolutionDoes Science Need Philosophy? Tim Maudlin on Physics & PhilosophyFull Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzEazFNqOMk
Title: "Tim Maudlin: Was Einstein Wrong? Bell's Inequality & Universal Non-Locality"
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Disclaimer: The information provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. The content is shared in the spirit of open discourse and does not constitute, nor does it substitute, professional...2025-01-2511 minMind-Body SolutionRescuing the Self from the Philosophers | Raymond TallisRaymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and at St Thomas’ in London and has 4 honorary degrees: DLitt (Hull, 1997) and Litt.D. (Manchester, 2001) for contributions to the humanities; and DSc (St George’s Hospital Medical School, 2015; University of East Anglia, 2017) for contributions to medicine. He was an editor and major contributor to two key textbooks in the field, The Clinical Neurology of Old Age and Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and...2025-01-2545 minMind-Body SolutionDenis Noble & Raymond Noble: Is Life Purposeful? A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Living Systems
Denis Noble is Emeritus Professor and co-Director of Computational Physiology who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford. He is one of the pioneers of systems biology and developed the first viable mathematical model of the working heart. He is also a philosopher of biology, and his books The Music of Life and Dance to the Tune of Life challenge the foundations of current biological sciences, question the central dogma, its unidirectional view of information flow, and its imposition of a bottom-up methodology for research in the life sciences.
Raymond Noble is Honorary...2025-01-251h 57Mind-Body SolutionMichael Levin Addresses Consciousness & the Mind-Body ProblemFull Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMxTS7eKkNM
Title: "Michael Levin: What Is The Field Of Diverse Intelligence (DI)? All Possible Intelligent Agents"
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Title: "Bernardo Kastrup: Is Consciousness The Fundamental Reality? Analytic Idealism & The Cosmic Mind"
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Disclaimer: The information provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. The content is shared in the spirit of open discourse and does...2025-01-2509 minMind-Body SolutionNir Lahav: Can Physics Explain Consciousness? A Relativistic Theory & the Equivalence PrincipleDr Nir Lahav PhD, is a Physicist from Bar-Ilan University, now at Cambridge University. His field of study is in Neuroscience and Consciousness studies. He uses network theory, non linear dynamics and chaos. He developed The Relativistic Theory of Consciousness - a new physical theory in order to solve the hard problem of consciousness. He is also developing a model for chaotic neural networks in collaboration with Zachariah Neemeh, his 2022 paper ("A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness") was chosen as one of the most influential articles of the year by Neuroscience News.
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(5:44...2025-01-251h 35Mind-Body SolutionEmotions and the Free Energy Principle of Brain Function | Karl FristonProfessor Karl Friston is one of the most highly cited living neuroscientists in history. He is Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich, University of York and Radboud University. He is the world expert on brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, and pioneers the Free-Energy Principle for action and perception, with well-over 300,000 citations. Friston was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999). In 2000 he was President of the international Organization of Human Brain Mapping. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. He became a Fellow...2025-01-2524 minMind-Body SolutionFederico Faggin Reveals 'Live Information': Bridging Quantum and Classical Realities
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Title: "Federico Faggin: What is the One Consciousness? Bridging the Gap between Quantum & Classical Reality"
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Title: "Tom Campbell: Are We Living In A Simulation? Consciousness & A Theory Of Everything"
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Disclaimer: The information provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. The content is shared in the spirit of open discourse and does not constitute, nor does it substitute, professional or medical...2025-01-0211 minMind-Body SolutionNoam Chomsky on Science's Blind Spot: Free Will
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Title: "Noam Chomsky: Do We Have Free Will? Moral Responsibility & The Meaning Of Life"
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Disclaimer: The information provided on this channel is for educational purposes only. The content is shared in the spirit of open discourse and does not constitute, nor does it substitute, professional or...2025-01-0211 minMind-Body SolutionTerrence Deacon Lecture: Inverse Darwinism: Evolution as Thermodynamic Work
Terrence Deacon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. His research combines developmental evolutionary biology and comparative neuroanatomy to investigate the evolution of human cognition, and is particularly focused on the explanation of emergent processes in biology and cognition. Terrence is a Harvard Lehman Fellow, a Harvard Medical School Psychiatric Neuroscience Fellow, a Western Washington University Centenary Alumni Fellow, and the 69^th James Arthur Lecturer for the American Museum of Natural History. He has published over 100 research papers in collected volumes and scholarly...2025-01-0224 minMind-Body SolutionDonald Hoffman Lecture: Do We See Reality As It Is?Donald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including the bestseller “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.”
Lecture Title: "Do We See Reality As It Is?"
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EPISODE LINK...2024-12-2429 minMind-Body SolutionNicholas Humphrey Lecture: The Evolution of Consciousness & Sentience: A Tribute to Daniel DennettNicholas Humphrey is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities, & Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge. He has been Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford, Assistant Director of the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow in Parapsychology at Cambridge, Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, New York, & School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is best known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence & consciousness. His books include "Consciousness Regained", "Leaps of Faith", "The Inner Eye", "Soul Searching", "Seeing Red", "...2024-12-241h 06Mind-Body SolutionAnand Vaidya Lecture: Vedanta and the Hard Problem of ConsciousnessAnand Vaidya is Professor of Business Ethics and the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at San Jose State University, and Visiting Professor of Indian Philosophy of Mind and Knowledge at University of California, Los Angeles. He graduated from UCLA in 1998. He studied logic, language, metaphysics, Kant and Wittgenstein. He then went on to UCSB to study epistemology and philosophy of mind, writing a dissertation on knowledge of possibility and necessity via two-dimensional modal logic. Since his graduation he has expanded his research out to the cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary study of mind and epistemology. He now does work in Indian philosophy...2024-12-241h 05Mind-Body SolutionDonald Hoffman Lecture: Consciousness and its Physical HeadsetDonald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including the bestseller “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.”
Lecture Title: "Consciousness and its Physical Headset"
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- Dona...2024-12-2436 minMind-Body SolutionStephen Grossberg Lecture: Explainable and Reliable AI and Autonomous Adaptive IntelligenceStephen Grossberg is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems & Director of the Center for Adaptive Systems. He is a Cognitive Scientist, Theoretical and Computational Psychologist, Neuroscientist, Mathematician, Biomedical Engineer, and Neuromorphic Technologist. He has published 18 books or journal special issues, over 560 research articles, 7 patents and 100 000+ citations. He has been recognised for the past 50 years as the most important pioneer and current research leader who explains how our brains make our minds. Grossberg is often called the Einstein of the Mind.
Lecture Title: "...2024-12-241h 00Mind-Body SolutionMichael Levin Lecture: Where Minds Come From: The Scaling of Collective Intelligence, AI, and YouMichael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University and associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University. Prof Levin holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Prior to college, Michael Levin worked as a software engineer and independent contractor in the field of scientific computing. He attended Tufts University, interested in artificial intelligence and unconventional computation. To explore the algorithms by which the biological world implemented complex adaptive behavior, he got...2024-12-2455 minMind-Body SolutionKarl Friston Lecture: Certainties & Surprises in Our Daily Lives: The Brain as a Prediction MachineProfessor Karl Friston is one of the most highly cited living neuroscientists in history. He is Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich, University of York and Radboud University. He is the world expert on brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, and pioneers the Free-Energy Principle for action and perception, with well-over 300,000 citations. Friston was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999). In 2000 he was President of the international Organization of Human Brain Mapping. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. He became a Fellow...2024-12-2424 minMind-Body SolutionKeith Frankish Lecture: The Reactivity Schema Theory of ConsciousnessKeith Frankish is a Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, & an Adjunct Professor with the Brain & Mind Programme in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of "Mind and Supermind" & "Consciousness", as well as numerous journal articles & book chapters. He is the editor of "Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness" & the co-editor of "In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond", "New Waves in Philosophy of Action", "The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science", & "The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence". Keith’s research interests lie mainly in ph...2024-12-241h 50Mind-Body SolutionHyman Schipper Lecture: Kabbalah & The Mind-Body ProblemProfessor Hyman Schipper is a Professor of Neurology and Medicine (Geriatrics) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, a clinical neurologist at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital and the director of a neuroscience laboratory in the hospital’s affiliated Lady Davis Institute for biomedical research. His research focuses on degenerative diseases affecting the brain and mind, and he is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers on these and related topics. Prof. Schipper has long been interested in the interface between contemporary science and the Jewish mystical tradition (Kabbalah). His work in this area was initially published in Yeshiva University’s Torah...2024-12-242h 10Mind-Body SolutionTom Campbell: How Do We Leave The Simulation? Consciousness Beyond The Virtual Reality🚀 Journey through Consciousness & Out of the Body with Dr Tom Campbell 🌌
In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, we go on a mind-expanding journey through altered states of consciousness as we sit down with Tom Campbell, a seasoned physicist who has ventured into the fascinating realm of an consciousness & virtual realty. With a career spanning over half a century, Tom has masterfully fused his scientific expertise with an insatiable quest for understanding the fundamental nature of reality.🎓
📖 In this enlightening conversation, we'll delve deep into the logical consequences of consciousness as the bedrock of existence and explore thought-provoking topics such as out-of-bo...2024-12-213h 15Mind-Body SolutionTom Campbell: Are We Living In A Simulation? Consciousness & A Theory Of EverythingThomas Campbell is a Nuclear Physicist, Lecturer, and Author of the "My Big T.O.E." (Theory of Everything) trilogy. He worked as a physicist in technology development and complex-system risk analysis for both government and industry. In addition, he championed for more than 50 years the scientific, drug-free research into altered states of consciousness. This unique combination enabled him to develop My Big TOE, a scientific model of reality based on the insight that consciousness – not matter – is fundamental to all existence. After obtaining degrees in mathematics and physics, he attained his PhD at the University of Virginia. His work...2024-12-213h 26Mind-Body SolutionRobert Lawrence Kuhn: A Landscape of Consciousness? Toward a Taxonomy of Explanations & ImplicationsRobert Lawrence Kuhn, PhD., is the creator, executive producer, writer, and host of Closer To Truth, the PBS/public television series on Cosmos, Life, Consciousness, and Meaning that presents leading scientists, philosophers, and creative thinkers discussing fundamental questions. Dr Kuhn has published over 30 books, including The Mystery of Existence: Why is there Anything At All? (with John Leslie); Closer To Truth: Challenging Current Belief; Closer To Truth: Science, Meaning and the Future; How China’s Leaders Think; and The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin (the first biography of a living Chinese leader published in...2024-09-241h 49Mind-Body SolutionChris Fields: What is a Theory of Consciousness for? Quantum Mechanics, Minds & Minimal PhysicalismWATCH: https://youtu.be/jW2C3ZNzijE
Chris Fields, PhD., is an independent scientist interested in both the physics and the cognitive neuroscience underlying the human perception of objects as spatially and temporally bounded entities. He began his career as an experimental physicist, obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science (University of Colorado, Boulder, 1985), and was an early developer of automated DNA sequence analysis tools and systems for the Human Genome Project. He has published over 150 refereed papers in nuclear physics, artificial intelligence, molecular biology and cognitive psychology. He holds U.S Patent # 5355435 (1994) for an integrated...2024-09-171h 13Mind-Body SolutionMurray Shanahan: What are Conscious Exotica? Consciousness, AI & the Space of Possible MindsWATCH: https://youtu.be/MrV9IwZd3qE
Murray Shanahan is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Educated at Imperial College (BSc(Eng) computer science) and Cambridge University (King’s College; PhD computer science), he became a full Professor at Imperial, and joined DeepMind. His publications span artificial intelligence, machine learning, logic, dynamical systems, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. He was Scientific Advisor on the film Ex Machina (2014). He has written several books, including “Embodiment and the Inner Life” (2010) and “The Technological Singularity” (2015).
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(2:40) - Artificial General Intelligence, Cognition...2024-09-101h 20Mind-Body SolutionTerrence Deacon: Did Mind Emerge From Matter? Origin of Life, Causal Emergence, & Descartes' ShadowWATCH: https://youtu.be/_Kj2OgkxGa0
Terrence Deacon is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. His research combines developmental evolutionary biology and comparative neuroanatomy to investigate the evolution of human cognition, and is particularly focused on the explanation of emergent processes in biology and cognition. Terrence is a Harvard Lehman Fellow, a Harvard Medical School Psychiatric Neuroscience Fellow, a Western Washington University Centenary Alumni Fellow, and the 69^th James Arthur Lecturer for the American Museum of Natural History. He has published over 100 research...2024-09-033h 08Mind-Body SolutionDavid Papineau: Is the Mind Just the Brain? Materialism & the Problem with Phenomenal ConsciousnessProfessor David Papineau is a British academic philosopher. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and previously taught for several years at Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of Robinson College. He did a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Natal, followed by a BA and PhD in philosophy at Cambridge. After academic posts at Reading, Macquarie, Birkbeck, and Cambridge, he joined King's College London in 1990. From 2015-21 he spent half of each year at the Graduate Center of CUNY in New York...2024-08-271h 19Mind-Body SolutionFederico Faggin: What is the One Consciousness? Bridging the Gap between Quantum & Classical RealityFederico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. A new groundbreaking theory of consciousness proposes that qualia reside in quantum fields. Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world’s entire information technology. With the knowledge and experience of a lifetime in cutting-edge fields, Federico now turns his attention to consciousness and the nature of reality, sh...2024-08-081h 44Mind-Body SolutionKeith Frankish: What is Descartes' Prison? Illusionism as Intuition Pumps for Consciousness TheoriesKeith Frankish is a Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, & an Adjunct Professor with the Brain & Mind Programme in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of "Mind and Supermind" & "Consciousness", as well as numerous journal articles & book chapters. He is the editor of "Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness" & the co-editor of "In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond", "New Waves in Philosophy of Action", "The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science", & "The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence". Keith’s research interests lie mainly in ph...2024-08-022h 48Mind-Body SolutionTony Nader: Is Consciousness All There Is? The Field of All Possibilities & The Ultimate SingularityTony Nader is a Medical Doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic Scholar. Tony is an author and fellow podcaster, with his book titled: "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness" and his podcast titled: "Consciousness Is All There Is", which also happens to be the name of his NEW book (link below). As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s successor, Dr Nader is head of the international Transcendental Meditation® organisations in over 100 countries. From the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Africa, Dr Nader guides the Transcendental Meditation program and its adv...2024-07-231h 16Mind-Body SolutionJohn Vervaeke: Can Science Untangle the World-Knot of Consciousness? Relevance Realization & MeaningJohn Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning Professor at the University of Toronto in the departments of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Buddhist Psychology. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department. He is the director of the Cognitive Science program, and the director of the Consciousness and the Wisdom Studies Laboratory. He has won and been nominated for several teaching awards, including the 2001 Students’ Administrative Council and Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students Teaching Award for the Humanities, and the 2012 Ranjini Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published articles on relevance realization, general intelligence, mindfulness, flow, metaphor, and wisdom. He...2024-07-042h 00Mind-Body SolutionMichael Levin: What is Synthbiosis? Diverse Intelligence Beyond AI & The Space of Possible MindsMichael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University and associate faculty at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University. He holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. Prior to college, Michael Levin worked as a software engineer and independent contractor in the field of scientific computing. He attended Tufts University, interested in artificial intelligence and unconventional computation. To explore the algorithms by which the biological world implemented complex adaptive behavior, he got dual...2024-06-261h 26Mind-Body SolutionRoy Baumeister: Do Humans Have Free Will? The Self, Ego Depletion Theory, Self Control & WillpowerProfessor Roy F. Baumeister is one of the world’s most prolific and influential Psychologists. He has published over 700 scientific works, including over 40 books, and is one of the most highly cited scientists alive today. In 2013, he received the highest award given by the Association for Psychological Science, the William James Fellow award, in recognition of his lifetime achievements. As of 2024, He holds affiliations with Harvard University, Constructor University Bremen, Florida State University, BetterUp, Inc., and the University of Bamberg. Additionally, Baumeister serves as the president-elect of the International Positive Psychology Association. He is a Fellow of both the Society fo...2024-06-081h 20
Into the Impossible With Brian KeatingWhat’s the Relationship Between Matter and Space-Time? w/ Tevin NaiduJoin my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN!What’s the relationship between matter and space-time? What’s the fundamental nature of reality? And how should we, as science communicators, push back against anti-scientific BS?These are just some of the topics I had the pleasure of discussing with Tevin Naidu. Tevin is a medical doctor, philosopher, and ethicist whose academic work spans theories of consciousness, computational psychiatry, phenomenological psychopathology, values-based practice, moral luck, addi...2024-06-061h 18Mind-Body SolutionJohnjoe McFadden: Is Consciousness An Electromagnetic Information Field? The CEMI Field TheoryJohnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry at the University of London, and his PhD at Imperial College London. He is an accomplished scientist and author. He has written several books, including "Quantum Evolution: Life in the Multiverse" (2000), "Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology" (2014), and his latest book "Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe" (2021). His research interests include systems biology, mycobacterial genetics, pathogenicity of tuberculosis, neisserial genetics, pathogenicity of meningococcal meningitis. However, along with...2024-06-011h 18Mind-Body SolutionTevin Naidu: What is Consciousness? Theories of Consciousness & The Mind-Body SolutionThis interview with me was hosted by Dr Tony Nader on his wonderful podcast "Consciousness Is All There Is" where we discussed the various pros and cons of different theories of consciousness. If you enjoy MBS, you will love the content on Dr Nader's channel, so please check it out, like his content, and subscribe! Let's grow the Consciousness Community! Special thanks to Dr Nader for allowing me to repost this wonderful discussion. It was recorded a year ago, and many of my views have changed (slightly) since then, however I believe it is still worth the watch/listen. E...2024-06-011h 07Mind-Body SolutionBrian Keating: What Is Space, Time, & Matter? The Origin & Evolution Of The UniverseBrian Keating is the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a writer and the best-selling author of one of Amazon Editors’ "Best Non-fiction Books of All Time", "Losing the Nobel Prize". He is also a successful podcaster. If you enjoy Mind-Body Solution, you'll love Brian...2024-05-241h 14Mind-Body SolutionCurt Jaimungal: What Is A Theory Of Everything? Theories Of Everything /\ Mind-Body SolutionCurt Jaimungal is a Torontonian filmmaker and podcast host, with a Degree in Mathematical Physics from the University of Toronto. His channel "Theories of Everything" (TOE) analyses various "Theories of Everything" by exploring theoretical physics, consciousness, Ai, and God in a technically rigorous manner. Similar to Mind-Body Solution, a separating factor of TOE from other podcasts is its focus on depth even at the risk of limiting the audience due to how much detail we delve into subjects. Paralleling the intensity found in academic discourse, Curt is increasingly embracing a spectrum of unconventional ideas to conduct research during this...2024-05-182h 35Mind-Body SolutionStephen Law: Could God be Evil? Belief in the Supernatural & The Evil God ChallengeStephen Law is a Philosopher and Author. Currently director of Philosophy and Course Director of the Certificate of Higher Education at the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University, he was formerly Reader in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London. He attained his BSc in Philosophy at City University in London, a BPhil at Trinity College, Oxford, and was for three years Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, Oxford, where he obtained his PhD. He researches primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and essentialism. His popular books include The Phi...2024-05-181h 19Mind-Body SolutionOgi Ogas: Can this Unified Theory of Consciousness Explain all States of Mind? The Hard ProblemOgi Ogas is a Mathematical Neuroscientist and Author. He attained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University. He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his graduate studies, and is the director of the Dark Horse Project in the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His the author of several books including “A Billion Wicked Thoughts” (2011), “This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You” (2022), “Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos” (2022), and "Consciousness: How It's Made: A Super-Simple Explanation for Everyone" (2...2024-05-061h 50Mind-Body SolutionDonald Hoffman: What is an "Observer"? New Discovery in Search of "One" Consciousness Beyond RealityDonald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine with joint appointments in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the School of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including the bestseller “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.”
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(0:00) Introduction
(2:00 New Discovery (Observer)
(21:32) Theories of Consciousness (Graziano, Tononi, Hammerhof, Frankish etc.)
(39:49) Theoretical Limits in Science
(46:19) Finding "The One" (aka "God") Mathematically
(57:32) Scientific Spirituality
(1:00:16 Thomas Camp...2023-12-212h 27Mind-Body SolutionMichael Shermer: Why Do The Rational Believe The Irrational? Biases, Fallacies, & Skepticism 101Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, and was a monthly columnist for Scientific American for 18 years. He received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M...2023-12-012h 09Mind-Body SolutionEdouard Machery: When does Science go Wrong? Issues with Common Sense & Folk Ideology🧠 Delve into the Frontiers of Experimental Philosophy with Prof Edouard Machery 📚
Welcome to our latest podcast episode, where we engage in a profound exploration of philosophy, consciousness, and free will with Edouard Machery, a distinguished French-American philosopher and Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. 🌐
📘 In this enlightening conversation, we uncover the intricacies of experimental philosophy and consciousness, challenging traditional notions and exploring the intersection of philosophy and cognitive science. Join us as we navigate the landscape of experimental philosophy, discussing the characteristics of intuition, folk judgments about intentional action, and the broader...2023-12-011h 05Mind-Body SolutionJohn Horgan: Can Science Explain Everything? Scientism & Philosophy's Role In Science🧠 Dive into the Depths of the Mind-Body Problem with John Horgan 📚
Welcome to our latest podcast episode, where we embark on an exploration of science & consciousness with John Horgan, a distinguished science writer, journalist, and author, known for his thought-provoking insights. 📰
📖 In this enlightening conversation, we delve into the complexities of consciousness, life's improbability, and the mysteries of science & enlightenment. Join us as we discuss the balance between being a conscious observer and an active participant in life. 🌌
🔍 What to Expect:
(00:00) The Mind-Body Problems
(04:12) The allure of science mysteries.
(10:30) Philosophy's role in science.
(15:20) Contemplating consciousness.
(25:16) Determinism and free will.
(30:15) Implications of denying free wi...2023-11-191h 36Mind-Body SolutionAnand Vaidya: What Is Pure Consciousness? Non-Dualism & Indian Philosophy Of Mind🧠 Dive into the Fascinating World of Indian Philosophy with Prof Anand Vaidya 📚
In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, we embark on an intellectual journey into the depths of Indian Philosophy with Dr Vaidya, a distinguished Professor and Philosopher, renowned for his expertise in this intricate field. 🎓
📖 In this enlightening conversation, we explore the captivating realm of Indian philosophical traditions, the concept of consciousness, and its intersection with Western and Indian philosophy. Discover the profound insights into idealism, realism, panpsychism, illusionism, and the contemporary relevance of Indian philosophy. 🌟
🕒 What to Expect:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:10) Defining Consciousness, the Self & Mind
(06:18) The Diversity of Indian Philosophy
(14:42...2023-11-192h 01Mind-Body SolutionDavid Wolpert: What Can We Really Know About That Which We Cannot Even Imagine? No Free LunchDavid Wolpert is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, external professor at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, adjunct professor at ASU, and research associate at the ICTP in Trieste. He is the author of three books (and co-editor of several more), over 200 papers, has three patents, is an associate editor at over half a dozen journals, has received numerous awards, and is a fellow of the IEEE. He has over 30,000 citations, was the Ulam Scholar at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, and before that he was at NASA Ames Research Center and a consulting professor at Stanford University...2023-10-2549 minMind-Body SolutionManil Suri: Can We Build The Universe Using Only Math? The Big Bang Of NumbersManil Suri is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math, as well as three internationally acclaimed novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and The City of Devi. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, LA Times Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W. H. Smith Literary Award, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among others...2023-10-251h 12Mind-Body SolutionAvi Loeb: Where is Everybody? Fermi's Paradox & the Scientific Search For Extraterrestrial LifeAbraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is a Theoretical Astrophysicist and Bestselling Author. Avi has written 8 books and has over 800 academic publications on black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. He is the founder of the Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts, the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy, Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative and Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He...2023-10-071h 52Mind-Body SolutionLawrence Krauss: Does Science Need Philosophy? The Unbelievers, Known Unknowns & Edge Of KnowledgeLawrence Krauss is a world-renowned theoretical physicist, commentator, bestselling author, President of The Origins Project Foundation and host of the Origins Podcast. He is one of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture. He is the author of over 500 publications, as well as numerous popular articles on physics and astronomy. He received undergraduate degrees in both Mathematics and Physics at Carleton University. He received his PhD in Physics from MIT, then joined the Harvard Society of Fellows. He was Assistant Professor & Associate Professor at the faculty of the departments of Physics...2023-10-071h 00Mind-Body SolutionFrançois Kammerer: Is Consciousness Real? Illusionism As A Theory Of ConsciousnessFrançois Kammerer is a French Philosopher of Mind. He received training in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (MA) and at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (PhD). After his PhD, he held positions as a lecturer in Paris (Ecole Normale Supérieure/Institut Jean Nicod) and as a postdoctoral research fellow in Belgium (Université catholique de Louvain/FNRS), Germany (Ruhr-Universität Bochum/Humboldt Foundation) and the United States (New York University) and currently a postdoc at the Institute for Philosophy of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research mostly focuses on phenomenal consciousness. He defends an illusionist conception of phenome...2023-10-021h 49Mind-Body SolutionMark Solms: How Do Dreams Relate To Consciousness? Why We Dream & The Felt Uncertainty TheoryProfessor Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he is director of Neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), an Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association (since 2013). He founded the International...2023-10-021h 35Mind-Body SolutionRandolph Nesse: Are There Good Reasons For Bad Feelings? The Evolution of Mental DisorderRandolph Nesse is the Founder of Evolutionary Medicine & Psychiatry. He is Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan; Research Professor of Life Sciences, and Founding Director of The Center for Evolution and Medicine, Arizona State University; Founding President of The International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Randy's Website: http://randolphnesse.com/
Randy's Books...2023-09-171h 49Mind-Body SolutionStephen Grossberg: How Does Each Brain Make A Mind? Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) & ConsciousnessStephen Grossberg is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems & Director of the Center for Adaptive Systems. He is a Cognitive Scientist, Theoretical and Computational Psychologist, Neuroscientist, Mathematician, Biomedical Engineer, and Neuromorphic Technologist. He has published 18 books or journal special issues, over 560 research articles, 7 patents and 100 000+ citations. He has been recognised for the past 50 years as the most important pioneer and current research leader who explains how our brains make our minds. Grossberg is often called the Newton and Einstein of the Mind.
EPISODE...2023-09-112h 19Mind-Body SolutionMichael Levin: What Is The Field Of Diverse Intelligence (DI)? All Possible Intelligent AgentsMichael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University. He holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. To explore the algorithms by which the biological world implemented complex adaptive behavior, he got dual B.S. degrees, in CS and in Biology and then received a PhD from Harvard University. He did post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, where he began to uncover a new bioelectric language by which cells coordinate their activity during embryogenesis. The Levin Lab...2023-08-191h 56Mind-Body SolutionWhat is the Mind-Body Problem? Mind-Body Solution with Dr Tevin NaiduWhat is the Mind-Body Problem? Are we minds with bodies? Are we bodies with minds? What is the mind-body connection? Does consciousness render the mind-body problem intractable? Mind-Body Solution takes an in-depth philosophical probe into philosophy of mind's most infamous problem: "The Mind-Body Problem".
Podcast Title: What is The Mind-Body Problem? | Mind-Body Solution with Dr Tevin Naidu
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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Audio Podcast is currently on your favorite plat...2023-08-1907 minMind-Body SolutionKevin Mitchell: How Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? Free Agents & Cognitive RealismKevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is a graduate of the Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin (B.A., Mod. 1991) and received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1997), where he studied nervous system development with Prof. Corey Goodman. He did postdoctoral research at Stanford University, using molecular genetics to study neural development in the mouse. He was an EMBO Young Investigator and was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College in 2009. He served as Associate Director of Undergraduate Science Education at Trinity College Dublin from 2016-18 and led a re-imagining...2023-08-122h 00Mind-Body SolutionTim Maudlin: Was Einstein Wrong? Bell's Inequality & Universal Non-LocalityTim Maudlin is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. He studied physics and philosophy at Yale University, and history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his PhD. He taught for more than two decades at Rutgers University before joining the Department of Philosophy at New York University in 2010. Maudlin has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the "Foundational Questions Institute" of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and h...2023-08-061h 53Mind-Body SolutionOgi Ogas: How Did Thinking Emerge From Chaos? Journey Of The Mind, Supermind & BeyondOgi Ogas is a Mathematical Neuroscientist and Author. He attained his PhD in Computational Neuroscience at Boston University. He was a United States Department of Homeland Security Fellow during his graduate studies, and is the director of the Dark Horse Project in the Laboratory for the Science of Individuality at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His the author of several books including "A Billion Wicked Thoughts" (2011), "This is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You" (2022), "Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos" (2022) among several others. His work focuses on a unified...2023-07-292h 17
Mind-Body SolutionThomas Metzinger: Is The Self An Illusion? Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood & Epistemic Agent ModelThomas Metzinger is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. He is the author of The Ego Tunnel and Being No One (MIT Press), the coeditor of Open MIND, and the editor of Neural Correlates of Consciousness (both MIT Press). His research focus lies in analytical philosophy of mind and cognitive science, as well as in connections between ethics, philosophy of mind and anthropology. He is the recipient of several awards and Fellowships, including a Fellowship by the Gutenberg Research College and a Research Professorship from the German Ministry of Science, Education and Culture. He was the D...2023-07-222h 16
Mind-Body SolutionTevin Naidu: What is Mind-Body Solution? A Quest to Conquer the Mind-Body ProblemSpecial thanks to Sigma Series for allowing me to re-post this wonderful interview on Mind-Body Solution. Formerly named "The Truth", "Sigma Series" seeks to better understand the fundamental nature of reality through philosophy, science, & art. If you like Mind-Body Solution, you'll love this educational channel. Please check it out and don't forget to subscribe!
EPISODE LINKS:
- Carlos's Sigma Series: https://www.youtube.com/@SigmaCarlos
- Original Interview: https://youtu.be/kMVrO-OpNFQ
- Tony Nader's Interview: https://youtu.be/T2_GAcVb8yE
- Theories of Everything: https://youtu.be/eouxDJMlPuM
TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) - Highlights
(1:18) - Tevin's background
(9:58) - The "pure...2023-07-161h 53
Mind-Body SolutionBernardo Kastrup: Are We Dissociated Alters Of A Universal Mind? Understanding Analytic IdealismBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered).
EPISODE LINKS:
- Bernardo's Website: https://www.bernardokastrup.com/
- Bernardo's YouTube: https://youtube.com/@bernardokastrup
- Full Course on Analytic Idealism...2023-07-102h 27
Mind-Body SolutionJude Currivan: Is The Universe A Cosmic Hologram? The Holographic Principle & InfodynamicsDr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specialising in cosmology and quantum physics. She is the author of seven books currently available in over 16 languages. Jude integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic world-view. This underpins her work aimed at enabling transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary...2023-07-031h 14
Mind-Body SolutionSusan Blackmore: Did Religions Evolve To Exploit Us? God's Memes & Consciousness DelusionismSusan Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer, broadcaster, and Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK. She has a degree in psychology and physiology from Oxford University (1973) an MSc and a PhD in parapsychology from the University of Surrey (1980). Her research interests include memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, and meditation. She is author of about 15 books, 60 academic articles, 80 book contributions and many book reviews. The Meme Machine (1999) has been translated into nearly twenty other languages. She is a TED lecturer and often appears on radio, television and podcasts.
EPISODE LINKS:
- Sue's Website: https://www.susanblackmore.uk/
- Sue's...2023-06-2657 min
Mind-Body SolutionDonald Hoffman: Can Consciousness Create Reality? New Experiment to Test CA Theory's ImplicationsDonald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.” (2019). He has a TED Talk titled “Do We See Reality as It Is?". He received a Distinguished Scientific Award of the American Psychological Association for early career research, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. His writin...2023-06-192h 10
Mind-Body SolutionKarl Friston: Is The Brain A Statistical Organ? The Free Energy Principle & Active InferenceProfessor Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history. He is Professor of Neuroscience at King's College London and holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich, University of York and Radboud University. He is the world expert on brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, and pioneers the Free-Energy Principle for action and perception, with well-over 300,000 citations. Friston received the first Young Investigators Award in Human Brain Mapping (1996) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999). In 2000 he was President of the international Organization of Human Brain Mapping. In 2003 he was awarded the Minerva Golden...2023-06-092h 02
Mind-Body SolutionAngela Mendelovici: What Is The Role Of Qualia? Phenomenal Intentionality Theory & ConsciousnessAngela Mendelovici' is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Philosophy at The Australian National University, a graduate student at the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, and an undergrad at McGill University. She is the author of "The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality" (2018) as well as dozens of philosophical publications. Her research is in the philosophy of mind, specifically on Phenonal Intentionality Theory (PIT), and the relationship between consciousness and reality.
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- Angela's Website:https://tinyurl.com/5dprecn5
- Angela's Publications: https://tinyurl.com/29hfu6d6
- Ang...2023-06-0258 min
Mind-Body SolutionChristof Koch: Can Consciousness Be Quantified? Integrated Information Theory & Neural CorrelatesProfessor Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program. He received his baccalaureate from the Lycée Descartes in Rabat, Morocco, his B.S. and M.S. in physics from the University of Tübingen in Germany and his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute for biological Cybernetics in 1982. Subsequently, he spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1987 until 2013, Koch was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, from his initial appointment as Assistant Professor, Di...2023-05-211h 00
Mind-Body SolutionNoam Chomsky: Do We Have Free Will? Moral Responsibility & The Meaning Of LifeNoam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist. Known as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books and well over 400 articles in major publications. Professor Chomsky has received honorary degrees from University...2023-01-311h 21
Mind-Body SolutionTony Nader: Is Everything Consciousness? One Unbounded Ocean Of ConsciousnessDr Tony Nader is a Medical Doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD. in Neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic Scholar. Dr Nader is an author and fellow podcaster, with his book titled: "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness" and his podcast titled: "Consciousness Is All There Is". As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s successor, Dr Nader is head of the international Transcendental Meditation® organisations in over 100 countries. From the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Africa, Dr Nader guides the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced practices, and the practical applications of this technology in all areas of...2022-10-251h 44
Mind-Body SolutionRebecca Goldstein: What's The Matter with Matter & Why Does It Matter? The Mind-Body ProblemRebecca Newberger Goldstein is a novelist, public intellectual and Professor of Philosophy. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy. She has taught at Columbia and Rutgers. She has been a visiting scholar at Brandeis University, a visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, a Visiting Professor of Philosophy and English at NYU, as well as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at...2022-09-141h 07
Consciousness Is All There IsDifferent Theories of Consciousness: Pros and Cons | Dr. Tony Nader with Dr. Tevin NaiduIn this episode, Dr. Nader and Dr. Tevin Naidu evaluate the various theories of consciousness and discuss the pros and cons of each theory. From physicalism to idealism, they explain their own impressions on these theories and broaden our understanding of what consciousness is.
Dr. Tevin Naidu is a medical doctor, philosopher and ethicist from South Africa. He is the host of the podcast ‘Mind-Body Solution’ which explores the difficulties of the mind-body problem, and aims to get one step closer to the mind-body solution. Dr. Naidu’s academic work focuses on theories of consciousness, computational psychiatry, phenomenological psychopathology, values-based practi...2022-08-291h 05
Consciousness Is All There IsDifferent Theories of Consciousness: Pros and Cons | Dr. Tony Nader with Dr. Tevin NaiduIn this episode, Dr. Nader and Dr. Tevin Naidu evaluate the various theories of consciousness and discuss the pros and cons of each theory. From physicalism to idealism, they explain their own impressions on these theories and broaden our understanding of what consciousness is.Dr. Tevin Naidu is a medical doctor, philosopher and ethicist from South Africa. He is the host of the podcast ‘Mind-Body Solution’ which explores the difficulties of the mind-body problem, and aims to get one step closer to the mind-body solution. Dr. Naidu’s academic work focuses on theories of consciousness, computational psychiatry, phenomenological psycho...2022-08-291h 05
Consciousness Is All There IsDifferent Theories of Consciousness: Pros and Cons | Dr. Tony Nader with Dr. Tevin NaiduIn this episode, Dr. Nader and Dr. Tevin Naidu evaluate the various theories of consciousness and discuss the pros and cons of each theory. From physicalism to idealism, they explain their own impressions on these theories and broaden our understanding of what consciousness is.Dr. Tevin Naidu is a medical doctor, philosopher and ethicist from South Africa. He is the host of the podcast ‘Mind-Body Solution’ which explores the difficulties of the mind-body problem, and aims to get one step closer to the mind-body solution. Dr. Naidu’s academic work focuses on theories of consciousness, computational psychiatry, phenom...2022-08-291h 05
Mind-Body SolutionBernardo Kastrup: Is Consciousness The Fundamental Reality? Analytic Idealism & The Cosmic MindBernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art...2022-08-291h 52
Mind-Body SolutionPhilip Goff: Is Everything Conscious? Panpsychism & The Purpose Of The UniversePhilip Goff is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University, UK. His main research interest is consciousness, although he also has a sideline in political philosophy (taxation, globalisation, social justice). He blogs at Conscience and Consciousness, and his work has been published in The Guardian and Philosophy Now, among others. He is the author of Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (Vintage, 2019), and the co-editor of Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism (forthcoming, 2022). He is now working on a book exploring the middle ground between God and atheism, an...2022-08-111h 39
Mind-Body SolutionHelen Yetter-Chappell: Is Consciousness Everything? Quasi-Berkeleyan Idealism Without GodHelen Yetter-Chappell is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. She received her PhD from Princeton University, and has since been a Bersoff Fellow at NYU and a lecturer at the University of York. She is currently writing a book, titled "The View From Everywhere: Realist Idealism Without God." The book develops a novel quasi-Berkeleyan realist idealism, which does not rely upon God to do the metaphysical heavy lifting. This non-theistic idealism offers a fresh approach to the persistence and stability of the physical world. The resulting theory has implications for the nature of perception and the...2022-07-241h 27
Mind-Body SolutionChris Frith: What Is The Function of Consciousness? The Evolutionary Purpose Of Conscious MindsChris Frith is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London (UCL), Visiting Professor at the Interacting Minds Centre at Aarhus University, Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences from 1999, Chris was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008 and an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association in 2010. He has won numerous medals and awards for his significant contributions to neuroscience, including the 2009 European Latsis Prize alongside his wife, the developmental psychologist Uta Frith — also a...2022-07-061h 33
Mind-Body SolutionHelen Steward: Why Do We Have Free Will? Libertarianism & The Advantage Of AgencyHelen Steward is Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Action at the University of Leeds. Her interests include the metaphysics and ontology of mind and agency; the free will problem; the relation between humans and animals; and the philosophy of causation and explanation. She joined the University of Leeds in 2007, having previously been a Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford for 14 years. She obtained a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1992, a B.Phil. in 1988 and a BA in philosophy, politics and economics in 1986. In February 2015 she was awarded a Research Leadership Fellowship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council...2022-06-2957 min
Mind-Body SolutionMark Solms: Where Is The Source Of Consciousness? The Hidden Spring & The Cortical FallacyProfessor Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he is director of Neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), an Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and the President of the South African Psychoanalytical Association. He is also Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association (since 2013). He founded the...2022-05-241h 50
Mind-Body SolutionNoam Chomsky: What Is The Mind-Body Problem? The Hard Problem Of Consciousness & MaterialismNoam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in modern history. He is a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist. Known as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books and well over 400 articles in major publications. Professor Chomsky has received honorary degrees from University...2022-05-1637 min
Mind-Body SolutionIain McGilchrist: Why Are Our Brains Divided? Hemispheric Differences And Its Impact On The MindIain McGilchrist is a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital, London, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. Some of his many books include "The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" (2009), The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning; Why...2022-04-271h 58
Mind-Body SolutionDonald Hoffman: Is Reality An Illusion? Interface Theory of Perception & Conscious RealismDonald Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He earned his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in Quantitative Psychology, and received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Computational Psychology. He is an author of over 120 scientific papers and three books, including “The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes.” (2019). He has a TED Talk titled “Do We See Reality as It Is?". In addition to his positions at UC Irvine, Hoffman has been a guest lecturer at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forsc...2022-04-122h 04
Mind-Body SolutionMichael Levin: What Is Bioelectrical Intelligence? Technological Approach To Minds EverywhereMichael Levin is a Distinguished Professor in the Biology department at Tufts University. He holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair and serves as director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. He attended Tufts University, interested in artificial intelligence and unconventional computation. To explore the algorithms by which the biological world implemented complex adaptive behavior, he got dual B.S. degrees, in CS and in Biology and then received a PhD from Harvard University. He did post-doctoral training at Harvard, where he began to uncover a new bioelectric language by which...2022-03-221h 16
Mind-Body SolutionPatricia Churchland: Why Do We Have A Conscience? Moral Intuition & Eliminative MaterialismPatricia Churchland is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. She holds degrees from Oxford University, the University of Pittsburg and the University of British Columbia. She has contributed to the fields of philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of the mind and neuroethics. Her research has centered on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy with a current focus on the association of morality and the social brain. She has been awarded the MacArthur Prize, The Rossi Prize for Neuroscience and the Prose Prize for Science. She has authored multiple...2022-03-171h 26
Mind-Body SolutionGregg Caruso: Is Free Will Real? Hard Incompatibilism, Moral Luck & Rejecting RetributivismGregg Caruso is Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, Visiting Fellow at the New College of the Humanities, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is also Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law. His research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, punishment, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, social and political philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and neurolaw. His books include Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice (2021), Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (2021) and many more.
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Mind-Body SolutionEric Schwitzgebel: A Weird World? Universal Bizarreness Thesis & Perplexities of ConsciousnessEric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at University of California at Riverside. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford and his PhD in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley. He blogs at The Splintered Mind and is the author of Perplexities of Consciousness (2011) and A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (2019). He has published dozens of articles on the issue of introspection, moral psychology, the nature of belief and other attitudes; the epistemology of philosophy; ancient Chinese philosophy; philosophical issues in moral, developmental, and perceptual psychology; the metaphysics of consciousness; and the relationship between philosophy and science fiction.
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Mind-Body SolutionRalph Lewis: Can We Find Purpose Without God? Why We Care Even if the Universe Doesn'tRalph Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada and a psycho-oncology consultant at the Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. Dr. Lewis writes a popular blog series, Finding Purpose, hosted and promoted by his hospital and publishes regularly on Psychology Today. He has published articles on a psychiatric understanding of belief and purpose in Skeptic magazine and the Human Prospect. He has also written a best selling book: "Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If The...2022-02-262h 07
Mind-Body SolutionMenachem Fisch: Is Science Limited? Understanding Normativity & Moving Away from ScientismMenachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Senior Fellow of the Goethe University Frankfurt's Forschungskolleg Humanwisseschaften, Bad Homburg. He has published widely on the history of 19th century British science and mathematics, on confirmation theory and rationality, on the theology of the talmudic literature, and the philosophy of talmudic legal reasoning. His recent work explores the limits of normative self-criticism, the Talmud's dispute of religiosity, the possibilities of articulating a pluralist political philosophy from within the assumptions...2022-02-161h 18
Mind-Body SolutionRisto Miikkulainen: What are "Other" Minds? Neuroevoloution of Past, Present & Future MindsRisto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and AVP of Evolutionary Intelligence at Cognizant AI Labs. He received an M.S. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990. His current research focuses on methods and applications of neuroevolution, evolutionary computation, machine learning, cognitive science as well as neural network models of natural language processing and vision; he is an author of over 450 articles in these research areas. In 2016, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical...2022-02-131h 16
Mind-Body SolutionRaymond Tallis: Are We Destined for Freedom? A Case for Compatibilism & Ontological AgnosticismRaymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and at St Thomas’ in London and has 4 honorary degrees: DLitt (Hull, 1997) and Litt.D. (Manchester, 2001) for contributions to the humanities; and DSc (St George’s Hospital Medical School, 2015; University of East Anglia, 2017) for contributions to medicine. He was an editor and major contributor to two key textbooks in the field, The Clinical Neurology of Old Age and Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and auth...2022-02-101h 39
Mind-Body SolutionNicholas Humphrey: Why did Consciousness Evolve? Evolution of Sentience & Phenomenal SurrealismNicholas Humphrey is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities, & Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge. He has been Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford, Assistant Director of the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow in Parapsychology at Cambridge, Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, New York, & School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is best known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence & consciousness. His books include "Consciousness Regained", "Leaps of Faith", "The Inner Eye", "Soul Searching", "Seeing Red", "Soul...2021-08-092h 28
Mind-Body SolutionKeith Frankish: Is Consciousness an Illusion? Illusionism & its Ethical ImplicationsKeith Frankish is a Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, & an Adjunct Professor with the Brain & Mind Programme in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of "Mind and Supermind" & "Consciousness", as well as numerous journal articles & book chapters. He is the editor of "Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness" & the co-editor of "In Two Minds: Dual Processes and Beyond", "New Waves in Philosophy of Action", "The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science", & "The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence". Keith’s research interests lie mainly in philosophy of...2021-08-023h 00
Mind-Body SolutionLisa Feldman Barrett: How Do Brains Work? How Emotions are Made & the Derivation of MeaningLisa Feldman Barrett is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. In addition to the books "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" and "How Emotions are Made", Dr. Barrett has published over 240 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well...2021-07-251h 00
Mind-Body SolutionMichael Graziano: Rethinking Consciousness? Attention Schema Theory & the Science of SubjectivityMichael Graziano is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1989 in Psychology. He attended graduate school in neuroscience at MIT from 1989 to 1991 and then returned to Princeton University to complete his doctoral degree in 1996, in Neuroscience and Psychology. He remained at Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a professor of neuroscience and psychology. He's a best-selling author and has written several books including "Consciousness and the Social Brain", "Re-thinking Consciousness", "The Spaces Between Us", and much more. His scientific research focuses on the brain...2021-07-121h 33