Consciousness Live!
Richard Brown
Show overview
Consciousness Live! has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 67 episodes. That works out to roughly 120 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 34m and 2h 11m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, with 2 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2020, with 25 episodes published. Published by Richard Brown.
From the publisher
Where the stream of consciousness goes over the edge. This is the podcast you listen to after you have listened to all the other podcasts on consciousness!
Latest Episodes
View all 67 episodesBarbara Gail Montero Live!
Join me for a discussions with Barbara Gail Montero, Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, as we discuss themes from book in-progress on physicalism in the real world. Barbara’s website: https://barbaramontero.wordpress.com
Susanna Schellenberg Live!
Join me for a discussion with Susanna Schellenberg, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University & Executive Council Faculty, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS), as we discuss themes from her book The Unity of Perception
Farid Masrour Live!
Join me for a discussion with Farid Masrour, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, as we take a deep dive into the philosophy of perception and naive realism
J. Kevin O’Regan Live!
Join me for a discussion with J. Kevin O’Regan, ex-director of the “Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception” at the Université René Descartes, Paris, as we discuss his sensorimotor theory of consciousness.
Peter Langland-Hassan Live!
Join me for a discussion with Peter Langland-Hassan, professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, as we discuss themes from his book Explaining Imagination
Josh Weisberg Live!
Join me for a discussion with Josh Weisberg, professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, as we discuss themes from his new book ‘Explanatory Optimism and the Hard Problem of Consciousness’
Chomsky on Mind and Consciousness
Matthias Michel Live (again!)
Join me for a discussion with Matthias Michel as we discuss the Perceptual Reality Monitoring theory of consciousness
Jamie Woodhouse Live!
Join me for a discussion with Jamie Woodhouse as we discuss all things Sentientist.
Gualtiero Piccinini Live!
Gualtiero Piccinini joins me for a discussion of the nature and physical implementation of computation and consciousness
Steve Fleming Live (again)!
Steve Fleming joins me to discuss his new(-ish) book Know Thyself: The science of Self Awareness, the recent ‘IIT letter’, and a whole lot more! Steve’s blog post on IIT: https://elusiveself.wordpress.com/2023/09/09/iit-vs-gnwt-and-the-meaning-of-evidence-in-consciousness-science/
Eric Schwitzgebel Live!
My struggle with technical issues continues! But after we work that out Eric and I have a really fun discussion about his new book The Weirdness of the World.
Michael Graziano Live!
Join me for a discussion with Michael Graziano. Still having trouble with OBS, but slowly getting it together for a nice discussion.
Rachel Denison Live!
Join me for a discussion with neuroscientist Rachel Denison and to see me comically flustered. For the first thirty-minutes or so of our discussion I thought we were live-streaming when we weren’t! That hasn’t happened to me since the old days of Spacetime Mind. I must be rusty!
Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)
2024 is here and I am slowly coming out of my book-writing-induced coma to return to normal daylight activities. I have submitted the manuscript and we’ll see what reviewers think. In the meantime, I am slowly getting a line up for some Consciousness Live! discussions in the New Year. I started off the New Year … Continue reading Consciousness Live! Season 6(?!?!)
Mark Solms Live!
Join me for a discussion with Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital (Departments of Psychology and Neurology), as we discuss themes from his work and his recent book the Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness Mark’s book: The Hidden Spring Mark’s wikipedia page
Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michael Pitts Live!
Join me for a discussion with Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michal Pitts as we discuss COGITATE -an innovative Open Science, preregistered adversarial collaboration focused on arbitrating between two leading theories of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace theory (GNW) COGITATE project website
Claire Sergent Live!
Join me for a discussion with Claire Sergent, a Professor at the Université de Paris, in the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, as we discuss the neuroscience of consciousness and the Global Workspace Theory
Cevin Soling Live!
Join me for a discussion with Cevin Soling, a filmmaker, philosopher, musician, music producer, and artist, as we discuss his defense of solipsism -the metaphysical view that there is only one mind and that mind is Cevin Soling Cevin’s website
Megan Peters Live!
Join me for a discussion with Megan Peters, an Assistant Professor in the UCI Department of Cognitive Sciences, as we discuss her work on consciousness and metacognition Megan’s website Fund Consciousness Neuromatch Academy M-STEP paper