Consciousness is the great mystery of inner awareness. Where does it exist? Humans, obviously. Animals? Which animals? Chimps, elephants, dolphins, dogs? Termites, snails,...
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Episode 08
Season 05
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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...
Season 03
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How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains “experience” the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love?
Episode 03
Season 01
How has “inner experience” radically emerged from cosmic dust? Is consciousness only an accident of biology? Or does consciousness have deeper meaning?
Season 07
Why does the mystery of consciousness lead some to the existence of God and others to only the brain? I’d like to believe in God. Can consciousness help me?
Episode 12
Season 09
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...
Episode 07
Season 16
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...
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Does anything exist beyond the physical world? If yes, could consciousness undermine materialism? If no, could consciousness confirm materialism? It’s the big test.
Episode 09
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....
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Idealism is the theory that all reality is consciousness and only consciousness, and that what we perceive to be the physical world is either a manifestation of consciousness...
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Two fundamental theories — quantum mechanics and relativity — have changed forever our understanding of reality. Quantum mechanics describes the very small-scale...
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