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Erik Hoel — Exploring Consciousness (EP.80)

Dec 13, 2021

59:31

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The Search for Consciousness in Human Beings

04:12

Is There a Consciousness?

03:46

What Does Science Run On?

02:41

Introduction

2min

Book Review - The Hunt for Consciousness

3min

Is Everything Conscious? What Are Your Thoughts?

3min

The Search for Consciousness in Human Beings

4min

Is There a Consciousness?

4min

Are You Going to Categorise the Work That's Being Done?

4min

The Moly Labyrinth

3min

The First Rule Is, Don't Fool Yourself

6min

What Does Science Run On?

3min

10.

Science Is Being Driven by Ego

4min

11.

Book Review: Copenhagen Verse, Many Worlds, I Can Do He All

3min

12.

How to Be More Humiliated, Becoming More Wise

4min

13.

The Good Guys Are the Good Guys in Their Own Eyes

3min

14.

I Don't Want to Make People One or Two Dimensional

3min

15.

I'm Not Sure That I've Read the Book Snow's Idea of Two Cultures, Art and Science

3min

16.

We Lucked Out to Be Born

3min

17.

The Internet Is Our Paris

3min

18.

I'm Going to Wave a Wand and Make You Emperor of the Universe or the Earth for One Day

2min

Erik Hoel is a neuroscientist and an author. Erik often writes about the intersection of humanities and science, and his debut novel "The Revelations" is a tale of science, murder, and consciousness. Our discussion with Erik includes topics like:

Are humans really "conscious"?
Different theories of consciousness
Neural pruning in babies
How emotions drives scientific progress
Accepting the flaws in each of us
And MUCH more!

Follow Erik on his Twitter at https://twitter.com/erikphoel and read more about his work at https://www.erikphoel.com/

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Infinite Loops

Erik Hoel — Exploring Consciousness (EP.80)

The Search for Consciousness in Human Beings

Is There a Consciousness?

What Does Science Run On?

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