42 Minutes of the Best Moments in Consciousness Science Giant's Shoulder 2025

I've condensed the best moments from a year of consciousness
conversations on The Giant's Shoulder 2025 into 42 minutes. Truly
the most Giant episode of the entire year!





You’ll hear groundbreaking ideas from Anil Seth, Michael Levin,
Nick Lane, Peter Godfrey Smith and Mark Solms as they explore the
deepest scientific questions we can ask. Is perception just the
brain’s best guess? Do bacteria have primitive feelings? Why are
nervous systems so central to the evolution of subjectivity?
Could machines ever develop inner experience? And is
consciousness something we create, or something we reveal?


Expect to learn why your brain constantly updates its predictions
to control hallucinated reality, how membrane charge and
metabolic states may be the physical roots of feeling, why large
scale neural oscillations unify experience, and why affective
consciousness might be the true foundation of the
mind.Timestamps:


00:00 Intro00:31 Anil Seth: The Cognitively Impenetrable Messi
Illusion 07:42 Michael Levin: Radical Theories Of
Consciousness17:06 Peter Godfrey Smith: How Animals First Evolved
Experience 23:39 Nick Lane: How Bioelectricity and Metabolism
Creates Consciousness33:27 Mark Solms: How Consciousness is Raw
Feeling...Episode Links1) No. 1 Consciousness Expert: Optical
Illusions that Prove Reality is a Lie, Emotions, Books and AI -
https://youtu.be/lOSA06K0l1o2) Meet the Scientist Creating New
Forms of Synthetic Life! Dr Michael Levin -
https://youtu.be/LTBZRVKUwyM3) Meet the Neuroscientist Exploring
the World of Animal Consciousness -
https://youtu.be/DSCX4A8q9sY4) Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Aliens,
Metabolism, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Ai! -
https://youtu.be/2Nq-Whmpw5I5) Meet the Scientist Proving Dreams
Hold the Key to Consciousness! Dr Mark Solms -
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