Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Christof Koch on Consciousness and Integrated Information

3/24/2025 • 80 min

I talk with neuroscientist Christof Koch about what consciousness is, and what it has to do with the brain. Play episode

Alison Gopnik on Children, AI, and Modes of Thinking
AMA | March 2025
Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails
Helen Czerski on Our Energetic Oceans
Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology
Bonus | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter
James Evans on Innovation, Consolidation, and the Science of Science
AMA | February 2025
James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System
Chris Kempes on the Biophysics of Evolution
Tina Eliassi-Rad on Al, Networks, and Epistemic Instability
Solo: Does Time Exist?
Holiday Message | Hits and Misses
Michael Wong on Information, Function, and the Origin of Life
Jeff Lichtman on the Wiring Diagram of the Brain
AMA | December 2024
Emily Wilson on Homer, Poetry, and Translation
Brandon Ogbunu on Fitness Seascapes and the Course of Evolution
Solo: Emergence and Layers of Reality
AMA | November 2024
Addy Pross on Dynamics, Stability, and Life
Doyne Farmer on Chaos, Crashes, and Economic Complexity
Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience
AMA | October 2024
Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Hahrie Han on Making Multicultural Democracy Work
Cari Cesarotti on the Next Generation of Particle Experiments
Max Richter on the Meaning of Classical Music Today
AMA | September 2024
Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
Blaise Agüera y Arcas on the Emergence of Replication and Computation
Nate Silver on Prediction, Risk, and Rationality
AMA | August 2024
Doris Tsao on How the Brain Turns Vision Into the World
Daron Acemoglu on Technology, Inequality, and Power
Joel David Hamkins on Puzzles of Reality and Infinity
Ask Me Anything | July 2024
Samir Okasha on the Philosophy of Agency and Evolution
François Chollet on Deep Learning and the Meaning of Intelligence
Ellen Langer on Mindfulness and the Body
Kieran Healy on the Technology of Ranking People
AMA | June 2024
Cumrun Vafa on the Universe According to String Theory
Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
Solo: Quantum Fields, Particles, Forces, and Symmetries
AMA | May 2024
Gizem Gumuskaya on Building Robots from Human Cells
Stefanos Geroulanos on the Invention of Prehistory
Leslie Valiant on Learning and Educability in Computers and People

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