How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains “experience” the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love? video Why is Consciousness So Mysterious? Episode 03 Season 01 26:46 Watch Is our mental life a random accident, solely the product or byproduct of physical brain? Or is there something deeply special about conscious awareness that may reveal a... video Is Consciousness Fundamental? Episode 08 Season 03 26:45 Watch Is consciousness something special in the universe, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution? I hope... video Is Consciousness an Illusion? Episode 02 Season 10 26:46 Watch Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else. video Confronting Consciousness Episode 13 Season 11 26:46 Watch Why do we have inner awareness? Why does it ‘feel like something’ inside to see, hear, taste, think? It’s called ‘consciousness’ and it seems mysterious—but can... video Toward a Science of Consciousness? Episode 09 Season 14 26:45 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 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 Dualism claims reality has two parts, a physical and a nonphysical (mental or spiritual), both equally real. Dualism is believed by most people but rejected by most... video Can Dualism Explain Consciousness? Episode 12 Season 15 26:47 Watch 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 Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness. Where does it exist? Humans, obviously. Animals? Which animals? Chimps, elephants, dolphins, dogs? Termites, snails,... video What Things are Conscious? Episode 08 Season 05 26:46 Watch Some claim that their scientific study of extrasensory perception, or parapsychology, overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements... video Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical? Episode 11 Season 01 26:46 Watch Some say that consciousness is the only true reality—that everything else, including the universe, comes from consciousness. If so, how would consciousness relate to the... video Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality? Episode 13 Season 15 26:48 Watch Cosmos and consciousness seem utterly different, the former encompassing the vast universe, the latter emerging from tiny brains. Yet consciousness founds most religions, and... video Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos? Episode 12 Season 06 26:46 Watch
How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains “experience” the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love? video Why is Consciousness So Mysterious? Episode 03 Season 01 26:46 Watch
Is our mental life a random accident, solely the product or byproduct of physical brain? Or is there something deeply special about conscious awareness that may reveal a... video Is Consciousness Fundamental? Episode 08 Season 03 26:45 Watch
Is consciousness something special in the universe, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution? I hope... video Is Consciousness an Illusion? Episode 02 Season 10 26:46 Watch
Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else. video Confronting Consciousness Episode 13 Season 11 26:46 Watch
Why do we have inner awareness? Why does it ‘feel like something’ inside to see, hear, taste, think? It’s called ‘consciousness’ and it seems mysterious—but can... video Toward a Science of Consciousness? Episode 09 Season 14 26:45 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
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
Dualism claims reality has two parts, a physical and a nonphysical (mental or spiritual), both equally real. Dualism is believed by most people but rejected by most... video Can Dualism Explain Consciousness? Episode 12 Season 15 26:47 Watch
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
Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness. Where does it exist? Humans, obviously. Animals? Which animals? Chimps, elephants, dolphins, dogs? Termites, snails,... video What Things are Conscious? Episode 08 Season 05 26:46 Watch
Some claim that their scientific study of extrasensory perception, or parapsychology, overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements... video Does ESP Reveal the Nonphysical? Episode 11 Season 01 26:46 Watch
Some say that consciousness is the only true reality—that everything else, including the universe, comes from consciousness. If so, how would consciousness relate to the... video Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality? Episode 13 Season 15 26:48 Watch
Cosmos and consciousness seem utterly different, the former encompassing the vast universe, the latter emerging from tiny brains. Yet consciousness founds most religions, and... video Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos? Episode 12 Season 06 26:46 Watch
