The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

By thehardproblemScience
Download on the App Store

The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters episodes

  • Humility and Anxiety

    Key References:

    Pelin Kesebir 'A Quiet Ego Quiets Death Anxiety: Humility as an Existential Anxiety Buffer' 2014

    Roland Griffiths et al. 'Psilocybin Produces Substantial and sustained Decreases in Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Life-threatening Cancer: A Randomized Double-blind Trial' 2016

    Michael Pollan 'How to Change Your Mind' 2018

    18 min
  • Loneliness and Pain

    Key References

    Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Metazoa' 2020

    Julia Groening, Dustin Venini, and Mandyam Srinivasan 'In Search of Evidence for the Experience of Pain in Honeybees: A Self-Administration Study' 2017

    17 min
  • The ABCs of Consciousness

    Key References:

    Colin Hales and Marissa Ericson 'Electromagnetism's Bridge Across the Explanatory Gap: How a Neuroscience/Physics Collaboration Delivers Explanation into All Theories of Consciousness' 2022

    22 min
  • Conversation and Consciousness

    Key References:

    Nico Grant and Cade Metz 'Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims its AI is Sentient' New York Times 2022

    Nils Nilsson 'The Quest for Artificial Intelligence' 2010

    Mary Papenfuss 'Google Engineer on Leave after He Claims AI Program has gone Sentient' Huffington Post 2022

    John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997

    17 min
  • Lost in Translation

    Key References:

    Michael Gazzaniga 'Tales from Both Sides of the Brain' 2015

    Giulio Avvenuti et al. 'Integrity of Corpus Callosum for the Cross-Hemispheric Propagation of Sleep Slow Waves: A High-Density EEG Study in Split-Brain Patients' 2020

    18 min
  • Madness and Inspiration

    Key References:

    Aldous Huxley 'The Doors of Perception' 1954

    Shitij Kapur 'Psychosis as a State of Aberrant Salience: A Framework Linking Biology, Phenomenology, and Pharmacology in Schizophrenia' 2003

    19 min

About The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters

From the publisher's feed

This podcast is a deep exploration of the problem of consciousness. Presented by Jesse Winters, The Hard Problem reviews critical evidence in the neuroscience literature, insights from the philosophy…