The Heart Problem of Consciousness

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Alove: We still don't really have an acceptable theory for conjure the so called hard problem of consciousness. Alove: This is the point of having open dialogue about subjects like this. That's the only way to learn when you've been wrong about something. So let's start there. How do you think about consciousness, where you started back in the sixties and seventies, to what the naero scientist says now? And why have we not solved this problemw well, we have not solved thisproblem.

Michael Shermer speaks with scientist, educator, activist, and accomplished author, Fritjof Capra, about the evolution of his thinking over five decades. In this conversation, based on Capra’s book, Patterns of Connection, Shermer and Capra discuss: what it means to be spiritual in an age of science, nuclear energy and why Capra thinks we don’t need it and Shermer thinks we do, 50 years of progress or regress, limitations of models and theories of reality, limitations of analogies between western physics and eastern mysticism, mind and consciousness, and why Capra is hopeful for the future of humanity.