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September 10, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Gregg Caruso
The Wright Show
- What is neuroexistentialism?
- Neuroscience, free will, and existentialism
- The "compatibilist" claim that free will and determinism can co-exist
- To define "free will," first redefine "agency"
- Why the importance of luck should make us doubt intuitions about free will
- Moral responsibility and the Nazi war criminal thought experiment
- Does Gregg's personality predispose him to reject retribution?
November 02, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Eric Kandel
The Wright Show
- The research on memory that won Eric the Nobel Prize
- The difference between normal memory loss and Alzheimer's
- Eric's new book, The Disordered Mind
- Eric's breakthrough study of marine snails with giant nerve cells
- What it's like to win the Nobel Prize
- Eric's childhood escape from Nazi-ruled Vienna to America
- Why Vienna was a center of intellectual ferment in the early 20th century
November 17, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Eddy Nahmias
The Wright Show
- Explaining "compatibilism," the view that there's no conflict between free will and determinism
- Without free will, what happens to moral responsibility?
- Eddy tells Bob he errs in saying determinism means events are "inevitable"
- Free will is hard to imagine, but not nonsensical
- Why most philosophers today are compatibilists
- Bob: Compatibilists are just playing word games
- Were prisoners destined from birth to wind up in prison?
- Waiting for the "Einstein of consciousness"
April 04, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Evan Thompson
The Wright Show
- Time travel and other features of everyday awareness
- Lucid dreaming is to ordinary dreaming as mindfulness is to waking life
- Meta-awareness and the search for the true self
- Self is a construction, says Evan, but not an illusion
- Near-death and out-of-body experiences
- Ways to approach the problem of consciousness
August 04, 2015 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Sophia
- The "strong AI thesis": Can a machine think?
- Debating the usefulness of the Turing test
- Could your brain be swapped with a silicon replica?
- Massimo: You'll never be able to upload your consciousness
- Digging into the famous "Chinese room" thought experiment
- Dan: Neuroscience won't solve philosophy of mind puzzles
October 05, 2015 —
Jonathan Phillips & Steven Frankland
- How the brain builds complex thoughts out of reusable parts
- More fodder for the brain-as-computer model
- Sorry, we're not quite there with the mind-reading thing
- Possible reasons for the brain's topographic organization
- Why Steven's paper is controversial (and exciting)
- Cognitive neuroscience questions for the near future
September 08, 2017 —
Robert Wright & Alison Gopnik
The Wright Show
- How a personal crisis brought Alison back to David Hume
- Hume's (likely) chance encounter with Buddhism
- Lessons learned from 23-year-old Hume's nervous breakdown
- Which ideas might Hume have borrowed from Buddhism?
- How meditation disrupts the 'autopilot' of adulthood
- Is introspection as valuable as neuroscience?
March 23, 2018 —
Robert Wright & Massimo Pigliucci
The Wright Show
- Massimo's new edited volume, Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism
- What is scientism?
- Science and the challenge of studying subjective experience
- And about those pesky fundamental questions of existence...
- How philosophical thought underpins all research methodology
- Massimo: Core concepts across science have competing interpretations
- The importance of distinguishing "is" from "ought"
- What neuroscience can never explain about human consciousness
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