What causes consciousness? Our inner sense of awareness is at once most mundane and most bizarre. No explanation makes sense. Here are three novel candidates for explaining... video Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation? Episode 04 Season 18 26:48 Watch
Does anything exist beyond the physical world? If yes, could consciousness undermine materialism? If no, could consciousness confirm materialism? It’s the big test. video Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? Episode 09 Season 16 26:48 Watch
Materialism is the belief that only physical things are real. But physical things seem so utterly different from mental things. Could there be more to materialism than the... video Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness? Episode 08 Season 16 26:48 Watch
Can physical facts about the brain account for mental experiences of the mind? Has philosophy of mind made progress? We take a 15-year journey with John Searle and David... video Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness? Episode 07 Season 16 26:46 Watch
Here’s the big question about consciousness, our inner experience of what things feel like. Is consciousness a product of the physical world alone? Because if... playlist Is Consciousness Entirely Physical? Topic Series 8 videos 1:20:05 Watch
What is consciousness, our inner experience of private awareness? Can consciousness be explained by only physical activities of the physical world? Because if not, if there... playlist Anything Non-physical about the Mind? Topic Series 9 videos 1:17:22 Watch
What would it take for consciousness to defeat materialism or physicalism? This is the worldview that only the physical is real, which is the dominant view of scientists and... playlist Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (Part 1) Topic Series 6 videos 57:13 Watch
What would it take for consciousness to defeat materialism or physicalism? This is the worldview that only the physical is real, which is the dominant view of scientists and... playlist Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (Part 2) Topic Series 9 videos 1:16:00 Watch
Are quantum events required for consciousness in a very special sense, far beyond the general sense that quantum events are part of all physical systems? What would it take... playlist Quantum Physics of Consciousness Topic Series 10 videos 1:22:52 Watch
If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities... playlist Can Consciousness be Non-Biological? (Part 1) Topic Series 7 videos 52:31 Watch
If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experience as humans can be generated by non-biological entities... playlist Can Consciousness be Non-Biological? (Part 2) Topic Series 5 videos 43:43 Watch
How to explain our inner awareness that is at once most common and most mysterious? Traditional explanations focus at the level of neuron and neuronal circuits in the brain.... playlist Physics of Consciousness Topic Series 8 videos 1:04:47 Watch
Two fundamental theories — quantum mechanics and relativity — have changed forever our understanding of reality. Quantum mechanics describes the very small-scale... video Strange Physics of The Mind? Roundtable 27:06 Watch
Colin Blakemore Former Director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses, Institute of Philosphy, University of London
Rodney Brooks Robotics Entrepreneur; former Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
David Chalmers Professor of Philosophy and Co-director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University
Stuart Hameroff Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology and Psychology; Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona
Yujin Nagasawa Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics; Professor of the Philosophy, University of Oklahoma
Marilyn Schlitz Professor, Transpersonal Psychology, Sofia University; President Emeritus, Institute of Noetic Sciences
John Searle Former Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Stickgold Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Center for Sleep and Cognition, Harvard University
Charles Tart Associated Distinguished Professor, Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
Giulio Tononi Professor and Director, Wisconsin Institute for Sleep and Conssciousness, University of Wisconsin