Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke

Christoph Koch is the neuroscientist who, along with Francis Crick, initiated modern scientific research into the neuroscience of consciousness in the 1990s. Much of this work was done while he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology and he is now president and chief scientist at the Allen Institute for Consciousness. His books include Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist and most recently The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can't be Computed. Christof also writes the Consciousness Redux column for Scientific American Mind.

In this AMA episode I answer questions on the self, suffering, non-dual awareness, dissociation, tulpas & transpersonal love.

Donald Hoffman is a Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine and author of The Case Against Reality.  We talk about his interface theory of perception and his worldview of conscious realism and its impressive implications.

In this Ask Me Anything episode I answer questions on nested consciousnesses, proto-consciousness, ketamine induced brain death in sheep and more.

John Horgan is a renowned science journalist and author of several books including Rational Mysticism, The Undiscovered Mind, The End of Science, The End of War, and most recently Mind-Body problems which is available for free online at mindbodyproblems.com. He also has a podcast by the same name on meaningoflife.tv.  He is the recipient of the Science-in-Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers and two Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  John is currently the Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He also writes the “Cross-check” blog for Scientific American.  In today’s conversation we talk about whether science can discover objective truths when it comes to issues of human nature like consciousness and free will, the compatibility of science and mysticism as well as the role psychedelics have played in John’s thinking and his thoughts on meditation.

In this episode of the podcast I outline the key takeaways of the Living Mirror Theory of consciousness. Welcome to Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke.  Living Mirrors is a new podcast in which neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke will be interviewing people on topics like consciousness, science, spirituality, meditation and the renaissance in psychedelic research.  Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

In this episode of the podcast I outline my Living Mirror Theory of consciousness for the first time in public. Welcome to Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke. Living Mirrors is a new podcast in which neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke will be interviewing people on topics like consciousness, science, spirituality, meditation and the renaissance in psychedelic research. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to living mirrors with Dr. James Cooke.  This is a new podcast in which neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke will be interviewing people on topics like consciousness, science, spirituality, meditation and the renaissance in psychedelic research.  Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.  A video version will also be online at YouTube.com/DrJamesCooke.