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“Nobody expects a computer simulation of a hurricane to generate real wind and real rain,” writes neuroscientist Anil Seth.

“Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?”

Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.

The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.

What can drugs teach us about consciousness?

“Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it.”

Many, from neuroscientists to philosophers to anesthesiologists, have claimed to understand consciousness. Do physicists? Does anyone?

“We do not experience primarily because we have brains; we experience because we are alive.”

Locked inside their minds, thousands await a cure. Neuroscientist Daniel Toker is racing to find it.

The Malling-Hansen writing ball, with its potential and limitations, redefined Nietzsche’s philosophical and creative expression.

Mark Weinstein outlines a new path for social media that protects, respects, and empowers the regular users.

Do our thoughts have any meaning whatsoever?

Consciousness isn’t just a problem for philosophers. On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele sat down with scientists, a mathematician, a spiritual leader, and an entrepreneur, all trying to get to the heart of “the feeling of life itself.”

Do humans share one consciousness? This psychologist says yes.

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”

At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs’ effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

Propofol, a drug commonly used for general anesthesia, derails the brain’s normal balance between stability and excitability.

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.

Could AI develop true intelligence without sentience? Philosopher Jonathan Birch explores the boundaries of artificial and evolved minds.

While we’re busy wondering whether machines will ever become conscious, we rarely stop to ask: What happens to us?

“It’s not about being perfect. It’s about reducing suffering where we can, and right now, we’re choosing not to.”

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.

A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.

Only about 10% of patients survive cardiac arrest. Of the ones who do, many have amazing stories to tell.

A proponent of panpsychism argues moral truth is inherent in consciousness.

Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.

“Many people get stuck in feeling responsible for their psychological state, and there’s a way in which simply being with whatever uncomfortable emotions rather than believing that you are controlling them can be extremely beneficial for psychological wellbeing.”