TrueSciPhi

Podcast Profile: Consciousness Live!

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98 episodes
2019 to 2026
Median: 115 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast is built around long-form conversations—often recorded live—with philosophers, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists working on core questions about mind and consciousness. Across episodes, guests and host examine competing theories of what consciousness is and how it might be explained, moving between conceptual analysis and empirical work. Recurring topics include the “hard problem,” physicalism and its alternatives, and debates over whether consciousness can be reduced to or identified with physical processes, representational structures, computational mechanisms, or large-scale brain dynamics.

A major throughline is the philosophy and science of perception: how perceptual experience is structured, whether perception is direct or mediated, how imagery and imagination relate to experience, and what unity in perception amounts to. The podcast also frequently returns to self-related phenomena—self-consciousness, self-awareness, introspection, and metacognition—along with questions about the reliability and epistemic role of first-person methods.

Listeners will also encounter coverage of prominent frameworks and research programs in consciousness science, including global workspace approaches and integrated information approaches, as well as discussion of how to evaluate theories with empirical criteria and open-science methods. Some conversations broaden into related areas such as logic, memory, emotion, embodiment, the unconscious, psychiatric and psychedelic contexts, and the implications of artificial intelligence or cognitive enhancement for understanding mind. Overall, the show emphasizes interdisciplinary dialogue, pairing detailed philosophical positions with contemporary cognitive neuroscience and psychological research.