We have final cover art with typography from the amazing Gemma O’Brien!
My producer, Jay Shapiro, and I have completed 6 of the 10 episodes of my podcast documentary series on consciousness, and we’ll be in post production soon.
Featuring conversations with Sara Imari Walker, David Eagleman, Brian Greene, Janna Levin, George Musser, Adam Frank, Anil Seth, Donald Hoffman, Sue Blackmore, Sean Carroll, Lee Smolin, Philip Goff, and more… Stay tuned!
I gave a talk on September 8, 2023 in NY at a conference organized by Philip Goff and Andrei Buckareff on the topic of “treating consciousness as fundamental.” It was a fascinating and exciting gathering, and I was honored to present alongside so many brilliant scientists and philosophers—Lee Smolin, Don Hoffman, Luke Roelofs, and Hedda Hassel Morch were among them, along with a fun public debate the first evening between Philip Goff and Sean Carroll.
Click here to watch the video of my talk, “Is Consciousness Fundamental?”
Last week, I put everything on hold to help craft the script for Sam’s recent podcast on Making Sense. I hope everyone will listen with an open mind.
Click here to listen on YouTube
Our intuitions have been shaped by natural selection to quickly provide life-saving information, and these evolved intuitions can still serve us in modern life… But our guts can deceive us as well, and “false intuitions” can arise in any number of ways, especially in domains of understanding — like science and philosophy — that evolution could never have foreseen.
Click here to continue reading my article in IAI Magazine, “Consciousness May Not Require a Brain”
Today’s release on The Best of Making Sense feed:
“#159 CONSCIOUS. Sam speaks with his wife, Annaka Harris, about her book, CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.”