Mind Chat
by Mind Chat with Philip Goff and Keith Frankish
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Andy Clark: The Experience Machine
Andy Clark: The Experience Machine
About this podcast
Philip Goff is a philosopher who thinks consciousness pervades the universe. Keith Frankish is a philosopher who thinks consciousness* doesn't even exist. From their very different perspectives, Keith and Philip interview leading scientists and philosophers of consciousness, engaging and debating in a friendly way in pursuit of truth. Mind Chat aims to be highly accessible, allowing those with no background in science and/or philosophy to get a grip on the cutting edge of the field.
(*To be more precise, Keith thinks *phenomenal* consciousness doesn't exist; listen to find out what this is.)
Episodes
- Andy Clark: The Experience Machine · 1 h 29 min · Season 4 Episode 6Andy Clark is a leading and incredibly influential philosopher and cognitive scientist. Among other things, Andy has done pioneering work on predictive processing and the…
- Philip Goff & Keith Frankish: Heretical Christianity · 1 h 28 min · Season 4 Episode 5Philip recently went public with his conversion to a heretical form of Christianity (see article and video below). In this episode Keith and Philip discuss this and open up to…
- Annaka Harris: Is Consciousness Everywhere? · 1 h 48 min · Season 4 Episode 5Annaka Harris is author of bestselling book "Conscious" and writer and producer of the forthcoming audio documentary series "Lights On." In this episode we mainly focused on…
- Sarah Lane-Ritchie & Aidan Lyon: What Can Psychedelics Tell Us About Mind & Reality? · 1 h 41 min · Season 4 Episode 4Can taking psychedelics teach us more about the mind than science and philosophy? Is it rational to trust what mystical experiences seem to be telling us about ultimate reality?…
- Kevin Mitchell: Do We Have Free Will? · 1 h 45 min · Season 4 Episode 3Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is also the author of the wonderful recent book 'Free Agents: How Evolution Gave…
- Cat Gillen: Do Electrons Exist? · 1 h 12 min · Season 4 Episode 2Recently Philip and Sabine Hossenfelder had a discussion on Twitter about the relationship between science and the entities referred to in scientific theories…
- Halloween Special! The Purpose of the Universe · 1 h 39 min · Season 4 Episode 1Keith and Philip will discuss Philip's new book 'Why? The Purpose of the Universe.' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Purpose-Universe-Philip-Goff/dp/0198883765
- Donald Hoffman: What is Reality? · 1 h 59 min · Season 3 Episode 6Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of 'The Case Against Reality.' He believes that the world we experience is an illusion, whilst ultimate reality is…
- Eric Schwitzgebel : Is the United States Conscious? · 1 h 54 min · Season 3 Episode 5Eric Schwitzgebel is professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, moral…
- Michelle Liu and Edouard Machery: Is the 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' Nonsense Invented by Philosophers? · 2 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 4Many philosophers worry about David Chalmers' 'hard problem' of how brains produce consciousness. But do ordinary people who haven't been exposed to the peculiarities of academic…
- Frank Jackson: The Greatest Argument Against Materialism · 1 h 56 min · Season 3 Episode 3Professor Frank Jackson (Australian National University) came up with one of the most influential arguments against materialism about consciousness, a version of the 'knowledge…
- Francois Kammerer and Luke Roelofs: Illusionism or Panpsychism? · 2 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 2Mind Chat is back!! We've been a bit delayed due to illness in the family and Philip needing to finish a book. This is our delayed Christmas special, and will involve sherry…
- Noam Chomsky: Chomsky on Consciousness · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 1Noam Chomsky is an intellectual giant, who has made major contributions to linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. In this episode Keith and Philip explore Professor…
- Angela Mendelovici: How Does Consciousness Connect us to Reality? Part II · 2 h 59 min · Season 2 Episode 8Angela Mendelovici (University of Western Ontorio) is a prominent proponent of the 'Phenomenal Intentionality Theory': the view that all mental representation is at least partly…
- Ann-Sophie Barwich: Smellosophy--The Philosophy & Neuroscience of Smell · 2 h 24 min · Season 2 Episode 7Ann-Sophie Barwich is a cognitive scientist and empirical philosopher, and author of 'Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind' (Harvard University Press). Ann-Sophie explores…
- Philip Goff: Is Physics Different in the Brain? · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 6In a special follow-up episode, Philip shares some personal reflections on the recent discussion 'What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness?' with Sean Carroll and Barry…
- Sean Carroll and Barry Loewer: What Does Physics Tell Us About Consciousness? · 2 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 6We previously had a long chat with Sean Carroll. A big bone of contention with Philip and Sean was the degree to which physics constrains our theory of consciousness. We decided…
- Helen Steward: Do We Have Free Will? · 2 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 5Helen Steward is a philosopher and author of Metaphysics for Freedom (Oxford University Press), which argues that agency itself—and not merely the special, distinctively human…
- David Papineau: How Does Consciousness Connect Us To Reality? · 2 h 58 min · Season 2 Episode 4Keith and Philip interview David Papineau (Professor of Philosophy at King's College London) about his recent book 'The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience'. David is also a…
- David Chalmers: Are We Living in a Simulation? · 2 h 49 min · Season 2 Episode 3David Chalmers is one of the most important and influential philosophers of consciousness on the contemporary scene. He coined the phrase 'the hard problem of consciousness', and…
- Christmas Special: Panpsychism or Illusionism? · 2 h 47 min · Season 2 Episode 2In the Mind Chat Christmas special, Keith and Philip take it in turns to interrogate each other about their favoured view of consciousness (illusionism and panpsychism…
- Sean Carroll: Is Consciousness Emergent? · 3 h 14 min · Season 2 Episode 1Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll joins us to discuss whether it make sense to think of consciousness as an emergent phenomenon, and whether contemporary physics points in this…
- Anil Seth: Is Consciousness a Controlled Hallucination? · 1 h 57 min · Season 1 Episode 5Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. In this episode we discuss his new book 'Being You: The New Science of…
- Helen Yetter-Chappell: Is Reality Made up of Consciousness? · 2 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 6Dr Helen Yetter-Chappell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Miami. Idealism is the view that the fundamental nature of reality is made up of mentality or…
- Matthias Michel: Is a Science of Consciousness Possible? · 2 h 38 min · Season 1 Episode 4Matthias Michel is a philosopher whose work focuses on the science of consciousness. In a recent paper he outlines how scientists working on consciousness have been having the…
- Christof Koch: The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness · 1 h 35 min · Season 1 Episode 3Christof Koch is a neuroscientist and proponent of the integrated information theory of consciousness, or 'IIT". In this episode we explore with Christof the science and…
- Janet Levin: The Materialist Theory of Consciousness · 1 h 42 min · Season 1 Episode 2Professor Janet Levin is a materialist about consciousness. She thinks our feelings and experiences are identical with physical processes in the brain. In this episode we will…
- Tim O'Connor: Interview with a Dualist · 1 h 55 min · Season 1 Episode 1Tim O'Connor is a dualist: someone who thinks consciousness is not physical. People tend to think of dualists as believing in the soul, a supernatural entity distinct from the…
