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Matthias Michel: Is a Science of Consciousness Possible?

Aug 15, 2021

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Is There a Science of Consciousness?

05:03

Is Consciousness Just a Functional Notion?

02:00

Conscious Perception Without Attention?

04:06

Introduction

6min

The Conscious Versus Unconscious Distinction

3min

The Overflow of Consciousness

3min

Conscious Perception Without Attention?

4min

What's the Difference Between the Unconscious and the Totally Unconscious Perception?

2min

The Overflow View

4min

Slow Change Blindness

2min

Do You Have Inattentional Blindness?

2min

Is There a Science of Consciousness?

5min

10.

The Problem of Quantity Individuation

3min

11.

Is There Something Special About Consciousness That Makes This Problem Particularly Difficult?

2min

12.

Is There a Sharp Edge to Consciousness?

2min

13.

Consciousness Is Not Publicly Observable

6min

14.

Is Consciousness Observable?

3min

15.

Do You Think There Are Subjective Data?

4min

16.

Is Subjective Data a Scientific Data?

6min

17.

Is the Word Pinktus a Mental Representation of a Quality?

2min

18.

The Pinkness Is a Quality of the Experience

2min

19.

Is the Overflow Thesis True or False?

3min

20.

The Spelling Experiment

5min

21.

Is Conscioust Adding to the Story?

4min

22.

Is Consciousness Just a Functional Notion?

2min

23.

The Science of Consciousness

4min

24.

Why Is It Tactic to Do?

1min

25.

The Metter Problem of Consciousness

3min

26.

Consciousness Is Unexplainable

3min

27.

Consciousness Research

2min

28.

Is There a Theory of Consciousness?

2min

29.

The Future of Consciousness

2min

30.

Consciousness - I Caused Yo to Lose It

2min

31.

The Richness of Consciousness

5min

32.

Is Consciousness Absolute?

2min

33.

The Science of Consciousness

4min

34.

Is the Global Work Space Theory Promising?

4min

35.

The Effects of Visual Masking on Visibility

5min

36.

How to Insulate Theories of Consciousness

5min

37.

The Axioms Are Not Conscious

2min

38.

Is There an Explanatory Gap?

3min

39.

What Is Science in Inverted Commers?

4min

40.

The Hard Problem Isn't Taking Us Forward

2min

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The Problem Is That Theory Is Not Empirically Accurate

3min

42.

How Do You Know What's Real?

3min

43.

Matis's Paper, the Historical Paper, Is Really Interesting

2min

44.

I'm Going to Be a Aih Imby Which One's the Strike?

2min

45.

I Think He's a Realist, a Sensible Position.

2min

46.

I Think Theon Line Sessions Are Working a Lot Better Than They Used to Be.

3min

47.

I Think It's a Reasonable Route to Go Down a Certain Conception of Consciousness

2min

48.

Is There a Conscious Perception?

2min

49.

What Is the First Anaesthetic?

4min

50.

Dose, Isay, I'm in Pain, I Am in Pain

4min

51.

You're Not Allowing Me My View on What Ar E Sensation Is.

2min

52.

Is There a Phenomenality in Consciousness?

3min

Matthias Michel is a philosopher whose work focuses on the science of consciousness. In a recent paper he outlines how scientists working on consciousness have been having the same debates for 150 years without reaching consensus. In this episode, we will explore why the science of consciousness is more challenging than other scientific endeavours and examine possible ways forward.

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