THE REASONING SHOW

"TRUTH AND HUMANITY - DR. SUSAN BLACKMORE

In this show, the seemingly indefatigable Susan Blackmore and hosts David Quinn and Dan Rowden try to come to grips with issues as diverse yet integrated as mystical experiences, memes, free will, consciousness and how truth can become integrated into the nature of what we are as humans. In a wide ranging and stimulating discussion other subjects touched upon include reincarnation, the illusory nature of the self and what it's like to get beyond such an illusion, emotional attachments, cognitive dissonance, life and death and the nature of modern academic life."

THE REASONING SHOW - Truth and Humanity - Dr Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore: "Consciousness Isn't What It Seems To Be"

PROGRAM NOTES
03:30 Jon Hanna introduces Susan Blackmore
08:04 "A lot of people kind of think that scientists like myself are kind of pushing the problem [of what is consciousness] away, some are, but there’s a huge excitement about what we do with this mystery, and it’s a very strange mystery indeed."
09:22 "That’s what we mean by consciousness, in contemporary science, what it’s like for you."
09:38 Susan talks about ‘the great chasm’ between mind and brain, sometimes called the ‘fathomless abyss’ . . . "It’s the chasm between subjective, how it is to me, and objective, how we believe it must be in the real physical world. Don’t underestimate this problem."
11:48 "So that’s the sense in which I mean consciousness might be an illusion: not what it seems to be."
18:48 Susan begins her discussion about free will.
24:34 "You can see the readiness potential building up in someone’s brain a long time, a long time in brain terms, before they know they are spontaneously and freely act."
26:56 "We can believe that free will is an illusion. That’s my preferred solution. I don’t want to press it on you, but it seems this way: When you look at these results, and many other results too, consciousness just doesn’t seem to be the thing that starts things off."
51:07 "I suggest, that when you’re walking around in your ordinary life, just realize how much you are not seeing, but you are not seeing it all."

» Podcast 104 - "Consciousness Isn't What It Seems To Be"

Susan Blackmore: Memes

Susan Blackmore - Memes