What is consciousness?

A short introduction to this album. 

The difficulties of explaining consciousness scientifically. 

Are animals conscious? Can we produce conscious machines? 

Examining the nature of consciousness. 

Examining the nature of consciousness. 

The difficulties of trying to describe consciousness. 

The difficulties of trying to describe consciousness. 

Can consciousness ever be described and explained in scientific terms? 

<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

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the problems of consciousness, one of the greatest mysteries facing science and philosophy today. The frustrations, the stubborn facts and the curiosities of today’s thinkers, philosophers, physicists and psychologists, demonstrate the elusiveness, ... Show More

Language and Mind: What is rationality? What is consciousness? How do we manage to express our thoughts and experiences in language? 

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

What is consciousness? How does it arise? Where do our thoughts come from? And how do the mind and the material world relate to one another? In this recording of a talk given in 2014, Daniel Morley looks at the question of consciousness from a Marxist perspective and analyses one ... Show More