Season 2, Episode 5: Anil Seth, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and neuroscientist Anil Seth, author
of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness to explore the hard
problem of consciousness. Because the deep puzzles of
consciousness can’t be solved head-on with existing scientific
methods, Seth aims to gradually “dissolve” the problem by looking
at levels of consciousness, the content of consciousness, and the
mystery of the sense of self.


Together, they unpack several of the hard questions: How can
physical beings have subjective experiences? How can we measure
consciousness? Is consciousness the feeling of being alive? 


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Footnotes:


Consciousness

Artificial Intelligence

What Is It Like To Be A Bat? By Thomas Nagel  

Psychiatric Injury

Functional Neuroimaging

Phenomenology Consciousness

Functional Consciousness

Behavioral Consciousness 

Experiential Perception

Pattern Recognition 

Self-Driving Vehicles

Qualia

Hard Problem of Consciousness

Panpsychism

Élan Vital

EEG, MRI, fMRI

Locked-In Syndrome 

Adrian Owen 

Sense Perception

Controlled Hallucination

Chris Frith

Plato: Allegory of the Cave

Sensory Nervo



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