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Where the stream of consciousness goes over the edge.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ philosophy/neuroscience of consciousness • perception, sensory experience, representation • introspection, selfhood, imagination, memory, emotions • theories: IIT, GNW, global workspace, sensorimotor, illusionism • metaphysics: physicalism, panpsychism, biopsychism, solipsism, theism • AI, metacognition, psychedelicsThis podcast consists largely of long-form, live conversations with philosophers, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists about consciousness and closely related topics in the mind sciences. Across episodes, the host uses interviews to explore how conscious experience might be explained, modeled, or situated in nature, moving between philosophical argument and empirical research programs.
A recurring focus is the relationship between theories of consciousness and evidence: how to formulate testable criteria, how neuroscientific paradigms bear on competing frameworks, and what methodological commitments (including open science and adversarial collaboration) can and cannot decide. Listeners can expect frequent discussion of prominent theoretical approaches in contemporary consciousness science, including global workspace-style accounts, integrated information approaches, sensorimotor and perception-centered theories, and debates about computation and implementation.
Another through-line is the structure of conscious experience itself—perception, mental imagery, imagination, attention, and metacognition—along with disputes about whether introspection is reliable and what epistemic role consciousness plays. Several conversations emphasize philosophy of perception (including naïve realism and representational issues), while others broaden into memory research and the psychological study of self-awareness.
The show also regularly engages with major metaphysical positions about mind and reality, such as physicalism and its challenges, illusionism about phenomenal consciousness, panpsychism and related views (including biopsychism), and more radical proposals about the self and subjectivity (including universalism and solipsism). Some episodes connect consciousness studies to questions about value, emotion, agency, and animal minds.
While the central thread is consciousness, the scope occasionally expands to adjacent topics like artificial intelligence and cognitive enhancement, psychiatry and the unconscious, psychedelics, and intersections between academic philosophy and broader cultural interests. Overall, this podcast functions as an ongoing forum for contemporary debates about what consciousness is, how (or whether) it can be explained, and which tools—philosophical, scientific, or both—are best suited to the task.
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Brian Cutter Live! 2026-Jan-12 |
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Bence Nanay Live! 2026-Jan-05 |
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Maja Spener Live! 2025-Dec-14 |
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Andrei Buckareff Live! 2025-Dec-07 |
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Jake Quilty-Dunn Live! 2025-Dec-01 |
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Arnold Zuboff Live! 2025-Nov-08 |
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Brownapalooza -The Consciousness Live! 100th Episode Spectacular Extravaganza!! 2025-Oct-10 |
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Consciousness Live! Season 8 2025-Sep-02 |
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Farid Masrour Live! 2025-Apr-25 112 minutes |
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J. Kevin O’Regan Live! 2025-Mar-19 136 minutes |
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Peter Langland-Hassan Live! 2025-Jan-26 155 minutes |
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Josh Weisberg Live! 2025-Jan-13 178 minutes |
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Chomsky on Mind and Consciousness 2024-Dec-17 78 minutes |
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Matthias Michel Live (again!) 2024-Mar-28 113 minutes |
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Jamie Woodhouse Live! 2024-Mar-21 151 minutes |
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Gualtiero Piccinini Live! 2024-Mar-05 84 minutes |
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Steve Fleming Live (again)! 2024-Feb-05 180 minutes |
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Eric Schwitzgebel Live! 2024-Jan-30 107 minutes |
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Michael Graziano Live! 2024-Jan-22 78 minutes |
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Rachel Denison Live! 2024-Jan-11 85 minutes |
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Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!) 2024-Jan-03 80 minutes |
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Mark Solms Live! 2021-Sep-18 89 minutes |
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Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michael Pitts Live! 2021-Jul-10 120 minutes |
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Claire Sergent Live! 2021-Jul-06 117 minutes |
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Cevin Soling Live! 2021-Jun-23 92 minutes |
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Megan Peters Live! 2021-May-26 122 minutes |
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Adrien Doerig Live! 2021-May-05 104 minutes |
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Evan Thompson Live! 2021-May-04 92 minutes |
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Hedda Hassel Mørch Live! 2021-Apr-27 107 minutes |
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Peter Carruthers Live! 2021-Apr-21 112 minutes |
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Tony Chemero Live! 2021-Apr-15 109 minutes |
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Kate Pendoley Live! 2021-Apr-06 72 minutes |
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Nicholas Shea Live! 2021-Apr-01 49 minutes |
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Jacob F. Berger Live! 2021-Mar-26 113 minutes |
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Declan Smithies Live! 2021-Mar-24 117 minutes |
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Bernard J. Baars Live! 2021-Mar-17 123 minutes |
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Christof Koch Live! 2021-Mar-10 70 minutes |
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Luke Roelofs Live! 2021-Feb-25 148 minutes |
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Elizabeth Loftus Live! 2021-Feb-19 69 minutes |
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François Kammerer Live! 2020-Dec-20 139 minutes |
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Daniel Stoljar Live! 2020-Nov-21 123 minutes |
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Victor Caston Live! 2020-Nov-06 124 minutes |
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Chris Letheby Live! 2020-Nov-03 141 minutes |
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Heather Berlin Live! 2020-Oct-30 64 minutes |
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David Papineau Live! 2020-Oct-27 151 minutes |
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Myrto Mylopoulos Live! 2020-Oct-20 97 minutes |
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Henry Shevlin Live! 2020-Oct-16 134 minutes |
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Evan Thompson Live! 2020-Sep-16 93 minutes |
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Bernardo Kastrup and Philip Goff Live! 2020-Sep-12 81 minutes |
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Andrew Y. Lee Live! 2020-Aug-29 122 minutes |
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Philip Goff and Bernardo Kastrup Live! 2020-Aug-28 124 minutes |
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John Kubie Live! 2020-Jul-17 119 minutes |
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Hakwan Lau Live! 2020-Jun-19 131 minutes |
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Claudia Passos-Ferreira Live! 2020-Jun-17 126 minutes |
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Alex Kiefer and Pete Mandik Live! 2020-May-28 135 minutes |
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Jennifer Corns Live! 2020-May-23 113 minutes |
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Geoffrey Lee Live! 2020-May-19 112 minutes |
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Benji Kozuch Live! 2020-Apr-29 152 minutes |
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James Dow Live! 2020-Apr-24 139 minutes |
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Joseph LeDoux and David Rosenthal Live! 2020-Apr-14 93 minutes |
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Georg Northoff Live! 2020-Apr-09 90 minutes |
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David Pitt Live! 2020-Apr-09 133 minutes |
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Pete Mandik Live! 2020-Apr-06 164 minutes |
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David Papineau Live! 2020-Mar-31 120 minutes |
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Bryce Huebner Live! 2020-Mar-26 130 minutes |
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David Chalmers Live! 2020-Mar-18 149 minutes |
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Tony Ro Live! 2020-Mar-17 94 minutes |
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Carolyn Dicey Jennings Live! 2019-Nov-16 84 minutes |
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Philip Goff Live! 2019-Nov-14 102 minutes |
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Bernardo Kastrup Live! 2019-Oct-16 115 minutes |
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Susan Schneider Live! 2019-Oct-12 99 minutes |
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Keith Frankish and Philip Goff Live! 2019-Oct-09 138 minutes |
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Axel Cleermans Live! 2019-Oct-09 76 minutes |
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Stephen Fleming Live! 2019-Oct-09 122 minutes |
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Joshua Tan Live! 2019-Oct-09 123 minutes |
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Matthias Michel Live! 2019-Oct-09 132 minutes |
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Ruth Millikan Live! 2019-Oct-08 131 minutes |
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Keith Frankish Live! 2019-Oct-06 139 minutes |
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Michael Silberstein Live! 2019-Oct-05 148 minutes |
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R. Scott Bakker Live! 2019-Oct-05 131 minutes |
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Monica Gagliano Live! 2019-Oct-04 94 minutes |
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Romina Padró Live! 2019-Oct-04 102 minutes |
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Michael Rodriguez Live! 2019-Oct-04 86 minutes |
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Miguel Ángel Sebastián Live! 2019-Oct-03 113 minutes |
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Javier Gomez-Lavin Live! 2019-Oct-01 102 minutes |
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Wayne Wu Live! 2019-Sep-29 81 minutes |
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Jumana Yahya Live! 2019-Sep-28 92 minutes |
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Jorge Morales Live! 2019-Sep-24 107 minutes |
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Carlos Montemayor Live! 2019-Sep-18 129 minutes |
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Philip Goff Live! 2019-Sep-15 120 minutes |
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Masafumi Oizumi and Hakwan Lau Live! 2019-Sep-13 125 minutes |
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Dick Passingham Live! 2019-Sep-09 92 minutes |
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Hakwan Lau Live! 2019-Sep-08 61 minutes |