Consciousness Live!

Join me for another discussion with Philip Goff, a consciousness researcher at Durham University. This time we discuss themes from his new book Galileo’s Error Galileo’s Error on Amazon Philip’s website Philip’s blog

Join me for a discussion with Bernardo Kastrup, an independent philosopher who holds a Ph. D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph. D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence), as we discuss his argument against physicalism and his version of Objective Idealism. Bernardo’s website Windt & Metzinger paper on metacognition in dreami...

Join me for a discussion with Susan Schneider, NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair, Library of Congress and NASA, Distinguished Scholar Chair, Library of Congress (2019), Director, AI, Mind and Society (“AIMS”) Group, The University of Connecticut, and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, University of Connecticut, as we discuss her new book Artificial You -AI and the Future...

Join me for a discussion with Keith Frankish and Philip Goff as we discuss all things Illusionism

Join me for a discussion with Axel Cleermans, a professor of cognitive psychology, as we discuss his radical plasticity theory of consciousness Axel’s website [unfortunately I accidentally deleted the video of our discussion]

Join me for a discussion with Steve Fleming, a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist at the University College London, as we discuss science communication, different notions of metacognition, metacognition in animals and humans, levels of consciousness, the status of cognitive neuroscience, the use of reports in consciousness science, Steve’s model of awareness as inference in a …...

Join me for a discussion with Joshua Tan, an astronomer at LaGuardia and based at the Museum of Natural History, as we discuss life in the universe, quantum mechanics, and consciousness

Join me for a discussion with Matthias Michel, currently a postdoctoral associate at New York University, as we discuss the history of consciousness science, phenomenological overflow, optimism v. pessimism about the detection of consciousness, the relation of attention and consciousness, underdetermination of theory by evidence, the role of prefrontal cortex in consciousness, the reputation of &#...

Join me for a discussion with Ruth Millikan, a self-professed retired philosopher who is still writing (in addition she has won the Schock Prize, The Jean Nicod prize, the Rescher prize, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), as we discuss her theory of perception as interpretation of signs, Swamp … Continue reading Ruth Millikan Live!

Join me for a discussion with Keith Frankish, an Honorary Reader at the University of Sheffield, UK, a Visiting Research Fellow with The Open University, UK (where I was formerly a Senior Lecturer), and an Adjunct Professor with the Brain and Mind Programme at the University of Crete, as we discuss dual process theory, the nature of … Continue reading Keith Frankish Live!

Join me for a discussion with Michael Silberstein, a professor at Elizabethtown College, as we discuss relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the relational block world, ontological structural realism, the ‘science first’ approach to ontology, string theory, the principle of sufficient reason, the multiverse, dark matter, subjectivity, the neutrality of Neutral Monism, panpsychism, Russ...

Join me for a discussion with R. Scott Bakker, an author and independent philosopher, as we discuss concepts of consciousness, his Blind Brain theory of consciousness, eliminativism and illusionism, folk psychology, the intentional stance, Transhumanism, neural enhancement, Fermi’s Paradox, Greg Carrusso’s Public Health Model of criminal justice, and the semantic apocalypse. Scott&#821...

Join me for a discussion with Monica Gagliano, a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney & Senior Research Fellow at the Biological Intelligence (BI) Lab, University of Sydney, as we discuss her work on plant cognition, plant intellig...

Do you ever get tired of talking explicitly about consciousness? Join me for a discussion with Romina Padró, director of the Kripke Center at the Graduate Center of CUNY, as we discuss the epistemology of logic and the adoption problem -the question of whether we are able to consciously adopt an ‘alternative’ system of logic.

Join me for a discussion with Michael Rodriguez, an artist at Laguardia Community College, as we discuss all things art. *note* the audio for this one was recorded on my desktop microphone and so is not the greatest, sorry! -but the video has lots of art in it :)* Michael’s website

Join me for a discussion with Miguel Sebastian, a philosopher working as Associate Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at the UNAM, as we discuss first-person representations, unconscious perception, taxonomizing representational theories of consciousness, the phenomenology of the self, regress problems for higher-order theories, teleosemantics, zombies, 2D semantics, p...

Join me for a discussion with Javier Gomez-Lavin, a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the Department of Philosophy with Lisa Miracchi and the MIRA group, as we discuss consciousness and working memory. Javier’s website: https://jgomezlavin.com

Join me for a discussion with Wayne Wu, an associate professor in, and associate director of, The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, as we discuss attention, action, consciousness, phenomenal overflow, and introspection. Wayne’s webpage: https://philpeople.org/profiles/wayne-wu Boxtel, Tsuchiya, Koch Opposing effects of consciousness and attention: http://w...

Join me for a discussion with Jumana Yahya, a PhD Candidate at the University of Osnabruck in the Institute of Cognitive Science, and a LaGuardia Alumnus, as we discuss situated cognition, self-control, emotion, motivation, addiction, and free will.

Join me for a discussion with Jorge Morales, a philosopher and cognitive scientist currently at Johns Hopkins university, as we discuss mental strength -the felt intensity of our phenomenology-, pain asymbolia, dental fear, introspection, signal detection theory, attention, and the neural correlates of consciousness. Jorge’s website

Join me for a discussion with Carlos Montemayor, a philosopher at San Francisco State University whose research focuses on the intersection between philosophy of mind, epistemology and cognitive science, as we discuss consciousness, memory, the experience of time passing, attention, and artificial consciousness. Carlos’ website Christopher Mole’s review of Carlos’ book On the Evo...

Join me for a discussion with Philip Goff, a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, UK, as we discuss physicalism, panpsychism, and cosmopsychism Philip’s website Philip’s blog Richard Dawid paper Daniel Stoljar’s review of Philip’s book

Join me for a discussion with Masafumi Oizumi, a theoretical neuroscientist at the University of Tokyo, and Hakwan Lau, a cognitive neuroscientist at UCLA, as we discuss the Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, and Higher-Order theories of consciousness Oizumi on Twitter: @oizumim Hakwan on Twitter: @hakwanlau Oizumi’s website IIT 3.0 Hakwan’s website