
Consciousness Live!
Where the stream of consciousness goes over the edge.
This is the podcast you listen to after you have listened to all the other podcasts on consciousness!
Latest episodes

Jan 22, 2024 • 1h 18min
Michael Graziano Live!
screenshot: Michael Graziano attempts to remove the invisible squirrel lodged in Richard Brown’s head
Join me for a discussion with Michael Graziano. Still having trouble with OBS, but slowly getting it together for a nice discussion.

Jan 11, 2024 • 1h 25min
Rachel Denison Live!
Join me for a discussion with neuroscientist Rachel Denison and to see me comically flustered. For the first thirty-minutes or so of our discussion I thought we were live-streaming when we weren’t! That hasn’t happened to me since the old days of Spacetime Mind. I must be rusty!

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 20min
Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)
2024 is here and I am slowly coming out of my book-writing-induced coma to return to normal daylight activities. I have submitted the manuscript and we’ll see what reviewers think. In the meantime, I am slowly getting a line up for some Consciousness Live! discussions in the New Year.
I started off the New Year with a great discussion with Felipe de Brigard (below) and have a few more in the works. Should be fun!
January 3rd –Felipe De Brigard
January 11th –Rachel Denison
January 22nd –Michael Graziano
January 29th –Eric Schwitzgebel
February 5th –Steve Fleming
March 18th –Matthias Michel
TBD –Ned Block

Sep 18, 2021 • 1h 30min
Mark Solms Live!
Join me for a discussion with Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), as we discuss themes from his work and his recent book the Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Mark’s book: The Hidden SpringMark’s wikipedia page

Jul 10, 2021 • 2h 1min
Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michael Pitts Live!
Join me for a discussion with Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michal Pitts as we discuss COGITATE -an innovative Open Science, preregistered adversarial collaboration focused on arbitrating between two leading theories of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNW)
COGITATE project website

Jul 6, 2021 • 1h 57min
Claire Sergent Live!
Join me for a discussion with Claire Sergent, a Professor at the Université de Paris, in the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, as we discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the Global Workspace Theory
Sergent land website: https://sergent-consciousness-lab.u-paris.fr/

Jun 23, 2021 • 1h 32min
Cevin Soling Live!
Join me for a discussion with Cevin Soling, a filmmaker, philosopher, musician, music producer, and artist, as we discuss his defense of solipsism -the metaphysical view that there is only one mind and that mind is Cevin Soling
Cevin’s website

May 26, 2021 • 2h 3min
Megan Peters Live!
Join me for a discussion with Megan Peters, an Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences, as we discuss her work on consciousness and metacognition
Megan’s websiteFund Consciousness Neuromatch AcademyM-STEP paper

May 5, 2021 • 1h 44min
Adrien Doerig Live!
Join me for a discussion with Adrien Doerig, currently a Postdoc with Tim Kietzmann at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behavior, as we discuss empirical criteria for theories of consciousness

May 4, 2021 • 1h 33min
Evan Thompson Live!
Join me for a discussion with Evan Thompson, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and an Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology (Cognitive Science Group), as we discuss Biopsychism -the view that mind and consciousness are co-extensive with life.
Evan’s website