Gualtiero Piccinini joins me for a discussion of the nature and physical implementation of computation and consciousness

• Gualtiero’s website: https://www.umsl.edu/~philo/People/Faculty/piccinini/index.html
• Brains Blog: https://philosophyofbrains.com
• International Society for the Philosophy of the Mind Sciences: https://www.ispsmind.com
• The Physical Signature of Computation: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-physical-signature-of-computation-9780198833642?cc=us&lang=en&
• Consciousness Online: The Online Consciousness Conference: https://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com

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/

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.

Join me for a discussion with Michael Graziano. Still having trouble with OBS, but slowly getting it together for a nice discussion.

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!

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 with a great discussion with Felipe de Brigard (below) and have a few more in the works. Should be fun!

• January 3rd –Felipe De Brigard
• January 11th –Rachel Denison
• January 22nd –Michael Graziano
• January 29th –Eric Schwitzgebel
• February 5th –Steve Fleming
• March 18th –Matthias Michel
• TBD –Ned Block

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

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

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

• Sergent land website: https://sergent-consciousness-lab.u-paris.fr/

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