Consciousness: the central psychological...

A short introduction to this album. 

What does consciousness mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries. 

Are animals conscious? Can we produce conscious machines? 

The difficulties of trying to describe consciousness. 

The difficulties of trying to describe consciousness. 

Can consciousness ever be described and explained in scientific terms? 

Examining the nature of consciousness. 

Examining the nature of consciousness. 

<p>It's pretty obvious to each of us that we are conscious, as we go about our days and feel the experience of just ‘being ourselves'. But how do we know that someone else is conscious? </p><p>It’s something we lose during dreamless sleep, under anaesthesia or in a coma. But wha ... Show More

<p>What exactly is consciousness, and why is it such a hard problem to solve? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly take you deep into the mysteries of consciousness and objective reality, David Chalmers, a philosopher and cognitive scientist. </p><p>NOTE: ... Show More

How do your billions of tiny brain cells build consciousness as they chatter away with electrical spikes and chemical signals? And why is your laptop, with its sophisticated algorithms and billions of parts, presumably not conscious? Could other large systems like a city become c ... Show More

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Hard Problem of consciousness is the difficulty of reconciling experience with materialism. In this episode of the <a href= "http://www.philosophybites.com">Philosophy Bites podcast</a>, in conversation with Nigel Warburton, <a href= "https:/ ... Show More