Épisodes

  • Episode 22 Self in Mind
    Jun 12 2022
    Best-selling author of Being You, superstar neuroscientist Anil Seth in discussion on selfhood, the fundamentals of consciousness and why we should be optimistic about the future of the science.
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    1 h et 1 min
  • Series 2, Episode 20: Transcendent minds
    Jan 27 2022
    In the first episode of the new series of Enter the Psychosphere, Melanie talks with award-winning writer and scientist, Gaia Vince, on her book Transcendence and the cultural and cognitive shifts that have made us as transformative as we are.
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    52 min
  • Demystifying consciousness
    Dec 7 2021
    Neurologist Todd Feinberg guides us through his theories on the origins of consciousness and what we know about the basis of selfhood.
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    42 min
  • Animal Personhood
    Nov 12 2021
    Science writer, Brandon Keim joins Melanie for a discussion of animal personhood and how meeting animals as persons might alter how we behave towards them.
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    45 min
  • Minds in Miniature
    Nov 10 2021
    Pioneering neurobiologist Randolf Menzel and I discuss the minds of honeybees and their abilities to dance symbolically and even to dream.
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    47 min
  • Minds in the Dark
    Oct 12 2021
    Philosopher David Livingstone Smith joins a discussion on dehumanization, racism, and what we can all do to resist the urge to see one another as less than human.
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    1 h et 1 min
  • Something Fishy
    Sep 23 2021
    World-renowned researcher into the behavioural ecology of fishes, Culum Brown, speaks to Melanie about the frontiers of fish intelligence and how we should rethink the lives of one of the most numerous organisms on Earth.
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    38 min
  • Out of this World
    Aug 3 2021
    Harvard Professor of Astronomy Avi Loeb discusses his book Extraterrestrial, the biases and prejudices that can make science resistant to earth-shattering new ideas, and the possibility of advanced alien intelligences.
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    44 min