
Consciousness is everything you’ve ever known, and the only thing you’ll ever know. It is highly unlikely that anyone else will be able to experience exactly what you experience; likewise, you will probably never be able to sample someone else’s mind directly. Because the topic of consciousness is so personal and so complex, and because scientists have confined means to study it, the field has att... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 13 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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| Categories | Religion & SpiritualityScienceSpirituality | ||||

What if the self you think you are… doesn’t actually exist?
In this conversation, philosopher Jay L. Garfield argues that the “self” is a powerful cognitive illusion – and that letting go of it can make us more ethical, more compassionate, and more ... more
Do we really have free will — or is that just an illusion? Are our choices the result of physical and biological processes?
In this video, I explore the classic free will debate from a scientific and philosophical perspective. Drawing on neuroscien... more
Dr. Andrew Newberg is one of the pioneers of neurotheology – the scientific study of what happens in the brain during prayer, meditation, and mystical experience. In this conversation, we dig into what the brain is doing during spiritual practice – a... more
In this AI-assisted conversation, I speak with 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume — the great skeptic of the Enlightenment and one of the first thinkers to question the idea of a permanent self. We discuss his early years in Edinburgh, his ... more
Could today’s AIs already be conscious? Before you say no, let’s look at what “consciousness” really means – and why machines may already qualify.
In this episode of What is Mind?, William Gadea looks at:
* Why definitions of consciousness depend ... more
In this episode of What Is Mind?, I speak with Dr. Swayam Bagaria, Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Trained as an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins, Bagaria explores how religion, cognition, and technology intertwine in ... more
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz, neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine and author of Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery. We discuss what it’s like to operate under extreme pressure, the controversial legacy of Dr. Willi... more
I was named after the neurosurgeon who operated on H.M., history’s most famous amnesiac. In this episode, I trace Henry Molaison’s case, the discoveries it unlocked about memory, and a parallel story from my own family that began in the same Hartford... more
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