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Matter Over Mind
By Stephen MatherScience
Matter Over Mind episodes
- What is Consciousness?
Thomas asks Stephen to explain the 'small matter' of consciousness. Stephen focuses upon the element of consciousness sometimes called a subjective experience. There is a lot of talk about this question on podcasts and YouTube channels - sometimes called the "hard question of consciousness', coined by David Chalmers. Stephen introduces the work of neuroscientists and psychologists to try to understand this mystery, and also finds what he believes is the most promising theory yet to explain consciousness scientifically. This will only be the first of many discussions about consciousness and its intersection with psychology and physics.
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1 hr 7 min - The Fast and the Massless: The Science Behind the Speed of Light
After watching a Sabine Hossenfelder video on YouTube claiming it might be possible to exceed the speed of light, Stephen asks Thomas whether this could be true, and just why it seems to be impossible. Also included in this episode: What is light? What is a field? What is a charge? What is the electromagnetic spectrum? How does an upside down ice-cream cone help us to understand the Universal speed limit.
Inspiration for the episode, Sabine Hossenfelder. "I Think Faster Thank light Travel Is Possible. Here's Why."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6Wjw
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50 min - Me, Myself and Us: Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
What is an archetype? What did Jung mean when he talked about them? How did Jung draw on, and then adapt Freud's ideas about the unconscious? What is the collective unconscious? This time of Matter Over Mind we focus on the inner world of the mind.
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57 min - Introducing Matter Over Mind
Welcome to Matter Over Mind, your essential guide to help you make sense of the science chatter. This is a short introduction.
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About Matter Over Mind
From the publisher's feed
Aimed at enthusiastic, but sometimes baffled, listeners to science podcasts, Matter Over Mind (we like to call it MOM) is the essential guide to the secrets of the Universe, as revealed through…
physics and psychology. So if you've been listening to a 'science communicator' talking about the AdS CFT Correspondence, but it still sounds like a News Agency to you, or you think the Legrangian is a character from The Matrix, but you really want to understand it, MOM's the word. Confusion is not limited to physics though, so if you're conscious that you don't know about the unconscious, or you don't know what to think about claims about archetypes and essentialism, or if you want to understand what the experts are saying about proposed links between quantum physics and consciousness, then again it's MOM you need.
Hosts are Thomas Vincent, an experimental physicist at the University of Oxford with a Masters degree in Theoretical physics, and currently working towards a PhD in Atomic and laser physics and Stephen Mather, Business Psychologist, with a Bachelors in Psychology and a Masters in Organizational Psychology from the University of London. In each episode Stephen and Thomas take turns to ask the questions about the chatter in the science podcast and YouTube ecosystem, and try their best to make sense of it all. Oh and to spice things up a bit more, Stephen is Thomas' soon-to-be father-in-law!
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