New Books in Neuroscience

Martin Monti, “The Limits of Consciousness” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Oct 8, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Is There Something Beyond the Brain That Causes Who You Are?
01:42 • 3min
3
The One Thing You Can't Change Without Affecting Who You Are
04:25 • 2min
4
Cognitive Science Is Getting More Popular These Days
06:08 • 2min
5
What Should Journalists Be Looking For?
08:13 • 2min
6
Is There Any Field of Study That You Haven't Considered Seriously?
10:20 • 2min
7
The Choice Under Uncertainty
11:52 • 2min
8
How Did You Develop Your Intuition?
14:08 • 4min
9
What Is a Vegetative State?
18:26 • 3min
10
What Are You Doing in a Vegetative State?
21:37 • 2min
11
How Much Brain Processing Is Remaining?
23:56 • 4min
12
Is There a Real Recollection?
28:15 • 2min
13
How Does It Work?
29:47 • 2min
14
Are These People in a Situation of Being in a Vegetative State?
32:01 • 3min
15
The Difference Between a Vegetative State and a Minimumly Conscious State?
34:47 • 4min
16
Is There a Consciousness Spectrum?
38:19 • 3min
17
The Intuitive Behind Playing Tennis
41:25 • 2min
18
Is There a Misdiagnosis?
43:47 • 2min
19
Is Your Brain Active All the Time?
45:32 • 2min
20
Is Your Brain Recognizing Language as Su?
47:05 • 2min
21
Using the Vegetative State as a Probable Hypothesis
49:34 • 5min
22
The Three Day Aspect of the Brain
54:38 • 2min
23
The Concept of Integration in the Brain
56:13 • 3min
24
Is There a Mechanistic Understanding of the Fingerprint of Consciousness?
59:09 • 2min
25
Is There a Level of Consciousness?
01:01:30 • 3min
26
Is There Room for Interaction Between Mathematicians and Computer Scientists?
01:04:01 • 2min
27
What's the Difference Between a Coma and Anesthesia?
01:05:44 • 2min
28
The Interrelation Between Language and Thought
01:07:54 • 5min
29
Are Our Thoughts Structured by Language?
01:13:10 • 2min
30
Do You Think Differently in One Language or Another?
01:14:53 • 5min
31
What Does This Mean About Language Structuring Thought?
01:19:59 • 2min
32
Animals Can Do Transitive Inferences
01:21:39 • 3min
33
Syntactical Structure of Language and Music Theory
01:24:52 • 3min
34
Is Language the Most Important?
01:27:47 • 4min