Excellent conversation

Great stuff - thanks for making this conversation happen and sharing. I'm a little bit in love with Christof

Wonderful talk! I think that at 53 minutes where Horgan expresses a concern that coming up with a single theory of the mind/body problem will detract from human freedom and creativity, this is a fear of the answer being simple, and our minds want a more complicated picture. Every time science reduces problems to a readily understandable explanation it leads to more avenues of inquiry opening up; whereas, dogmatism shuts down inquiry. It seems that we are more comfortable being in awe of something rather than understanding it, like some kind of mental inertia.

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Well spoken thete Project. The supernatural is just nature that we haven't yet dicovered. We may never know why the universe exist or no why life is here. But I agree with you on how creative and delusional the human mind can be. We want to feel special and have a divine purpose in life. So many laymen out there are typical dualistic mindset. Even thou science is showing us a better method of inquiry. This integrated information theory is close to a answer.

Christoph Koch would be the coolest uncle ever

"spiritual" people are always so happy when they can pass judgement rather than discuss theory. The problem they forget is that spiritual people often reduce others to widgets in their metaphysics 🤷 materialism should be liberating. Being part of something bigger requires universal justice which is highly relative. Reductionism can occur at many scales.

What if our brains were able evolve further, would we be even more 'conscious'? It's all the braincells/neurons that make up our conscious minds, but it wasn't always as complex. Maybe if we had a just few extra neurons we'd understand something we've been missing all along.

I've watched a few of your videos. The interviewing is excellent...is it a method, a conviction or a pre-disposition? thank you.

Link to the book is broken.

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Sometimes I think Mr. Horgan is deliberately irritating his interviewees... Especially by his particular look after those poor guys give their responses. But this makes it all more entertaining for me, I must admit.

Sadly, the US motto is now "In God We Trust," not "E pluribus unum." We went from a motto of inclusion to exclusion. Sad, very sad, indeed.

Why see consciousness, whatever you take it to mean, as a problem to be solved ? It is simply a part of physical reality like anything else, like comets, Apples, mountains etc.. why not just leave it at that? Is it because career philosophers have rents to pay that it needs to be kept alive?