Consciousness Live!

Where the stream of consciousness goes over the edge. This is the podcast you listen to after you have listened to all the other podcasts on consciousness!

Jake Quilty-Dunn Live!

Join me for a discussion with Jake Quilty-Dunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, as we discuss the cognitive science and philosophical psychology of perception and cognition Jake’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/jakequiltydunn/home

12-01
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Arnold Zuboff Live!

Join me for a discussion with Arnold Zuboff as we discuss his views on the nature of the self -universalism or the idea that there is just one subject of experience: everyone.

11-08
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Farid Masrour Live!

Join me for a discussion with Farid Masrour, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, as we take a deep dive into the philosophy of perception and naive realism

04-25
01:52:51

J. Kevin O’Regan Live!

Join me for a discussion with J. Kevin O’Regan, ex-director of the “Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception” at the Université René Descartes, Paris, as we discuss his sensorimotor theory of consciousness.

03-19
02:16:18

Peter Langland-Hassan Live!

Join me for a discussion with Peter Langland-Hassan, professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, as we discuss themes from his book Explaining Imagination

01-26
02:35:24

Josh Weisberg Live!

Join me for a discussion with Josh Weisberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, as we discuss themes from his new book ‘Explanatory Optimism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness’

01-13
02:58:41

Matthias Michel Live (again!)

Join me for a discussion with Matthias Michel as we discuss the Perceptual Reality Monitoring theory of consciousness

03-28
01:53:02

Jamie Woodhouse Live!

Join me for a discussion with Jamie Woodhouse as we discuss all things Sentientist.

03-21
02:31:39

Gualtiero Piccinini Live!

Gualtiero Piccinini joins me for a discussion of the nature and physical implementation of computation and consciousness

03-05
01:24:20

Steve Fleming Live (again)!

Steve Fleming joins me to discuss his new(-ish) book Know Thyself: The science of Self Awareness, the recent ‘IIT letter’, and a whole lot more! Steve’s blog post on IIT: https://elusiveself.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/iit-vs-gnwt-and-the-meaning-of-evidence-in-consciousness-science/

02-05
03:00:41

Eric Schwitzgebel Live!

My struggle with technical issues continues! But after we work that out Eric and I have a really fun discussion about his new book The Weirdness of the World.

01-30
01:47:23

Michael Graziano Live!

Join me for a discussion with Michael Graziano. Still having trouble with OBS, but slowly getting it together for a nice discussion.

01-22
01:18:28

Rachel Denison Live!

Join me for a discussion with neuroscientist Rachel Denison and to see me comically flustered. For the first thirty-minutes or so of our discussion I thought we were live-streaming when we weren’t! That hasn’t happened to me since the old days of Spacetime Mind. I must be rusty!

01-11
01:25:25

Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)

2024 is here and I am slowly coming out of my book-writing-induced coma to return to normal daylight activities. I have submitted the manuscript and we’ll see what reviewers think. In the meantime, I am slowly getting a line up for some Consciousness Live! discussions in the New Year. I started off the New Year … Continue reading Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)

01-03
01:20:00

Mark Solms Live!

Join me for a discussion with Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), as we discuss themes from his work and his recent book the Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark’s book: The Hidden Spring Mark’s wikipedia page

09-18
01:29:30

Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michael Pitts Live!

Join me for a discussion with Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michal Pitts as we discuss COGITATE -an innovative Open Science, preregistered adversarial collaboration focused on arbitrating between two leading theories of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNW) COGITATE project website

07-10
02:00:57

Claire Sergent Live!

Join me for a discussion with Claire Sergent, a Professor at the Université de Paris, in the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, as we discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the Global Workspace Theory

07-06
01:57:12

Cevin Soling Live!

Join me for a discussion with Cevin Soling, a filmmaker, philosopher, musician, music producer, and artist, as we discuss his defense of solipsism -the metaphysical view that there is only one mind and that mind is Cevin Soling Cevin’s website

06-23
01:32:25

Megan Peters Live!

Join me for a discussion with Megan Peters, an Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences, as we discuss her work on consciousness and metacognition Megan’s website Fund Consciousness Neuromatch Academy M-STEP paper

05-26
02:02:37

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