DMT, Cosmic Identity, and Panpsychism.
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson on psychedelics, personal identity, and how consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality.
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Will Conscious Superintelligence Redesign the Universe?
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Could artificial intelligence ever gain true consciousness? In this episode we explore what might unfold if super intelligent AI acquired consciousness, how it might see itself, and what it’s impact might be on our world and beyond.
Read MoreDoes Consciousness Ground Existence? (new film)
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Does consciousness solve the mystery of existence? A new documentary from Waking Cosmos explores the possibility that the mystery of consciousness and the mystery of existence are deeply connected.
Read MoreReality is an Infinite Consciousness Exploring Itself Forever. Neuroscientist Donald Hoffman on “Conscious Realism”
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For all of science’s impressive advancements, one problem has stubbornly eluded us: Why do we have consciousness? How does inert unconscious matter give rise to the light of conscious experience?
Read MoreConsciousness and Cosmology with Brian Swimme Ph.D. (listen)
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Cosmologist Brian Swimme considers consciousness exists at every level of existence.
Read MoreHave Scientists Discovered a Collective Consciousness? (listen)
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For over three decades the psychologist Roger Nelson Ph.D. and his colleagues at Princeton explored a mysterious extended property of the mind. Their findings seem to suggest that our thoughts and intentions are not encapsulated within our brains or bodies, but extend mysteriously into the world around us, and in scientifically measurable ways.
Read MoreDocumentary - The Living Universe: Cosmos as Organism
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Since the time of Plato, the human understanding of the universe has moved through two epoch-defining paradigms. These are the view of the universe as a great mind, moving into the view of the universe as a great machine. Today there are signs that the modern mind is moving into an organismic view of the universe, apprehended as an evolving, self-generating, and ultimately living process.
Read MoreDean Radin Ph.D. on Consciousness, Parapsychology, and Observer Effects (listen)
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Dean Radin Ph.D. in conversation on consciousness, telepathy, precognition, and observer effects. The Waking Cosmos Podcast
Read MoreDoes the Universe Have a Mind? ~ Exploring Panpsychism with Philip Goff Ph.D.
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Does the Universe have a Mind?
(Listen Below) My guest today is the philosopher Philip Goff, who has received attention for his defense of panpsychism, which is the idea that consciousness, —the distinctly subjective aspect of our minds, could be a fundamental feature of reality.
With growing support for panpsychism in academia, it is a view that Goff believes could do for the philosophy of mind what Darwin’s theory of evolution did for biology.
In our conversation today we discuss the reasons for believing that consciousness is an intrinsic part of reality, as well as the possible implications for both cosmology and life on this planet.
We also explore how panpsychism, in conjunction with “priority monism”, could entail the existence of a cosmic mind. This is a view that Philip has termed “Cosmopsychism.”
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The Conscious Universe - A Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake Ph.D.
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Is consciousness fundamental to the universe? Biologist Rupert Sheldrake offers his perspective on this and other questions in this episode of Waking Cosmos.
Read MoreCan Psychedelics Reveal the Nature of Reality?
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One possibility for David is that psychedelic substances such as DMT override the “reducing valve” function of the brain — opening the floodgates between our ordinary sense of self, and a much greater transpersonal reality.
Read MoreQuantum Mind, Immortality, and the End of Suffering
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What kinds of minds will our descendants have? Transhumanist David Pearce offers his views on this, quantum mind, panpsychism, and the end of all suffering in the reachable universe.
Read MoreConsciousness in Science Fiction - Exploring the Infinite Landscape of Mind
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Today on Waking Cosmos we explore how science fiction brings us into contact with a larger possibility space of minds and conscious experience.
Read MoreThe Future of Mind
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There is a limitless horizon of possible mental experiences, pregnant with unimaginable value and significance. When mind itself is stretched across the canvas, what will we want to want? What values will guide such minds?
Read MoreWhat did the Big Bang feel like?
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The philosopher and president of the Qualia Research Institute Mike Johnson thinks it may well have felt like something to be the Big Bang. And if it did, it probably felt pretty good!
Read MoreConscious Black Holes and the Qualia of Infinity
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How do we map the landscape of mind? What is the future of minds in the universe? And is consciousness an intrinsic part of reality? Today on Waking Cosmos (listen below) I'm joined by Mike Johnson from the Qualia Research Institute, where they're working on a theory of consciousness which could have profound implications for society, including the development of what we might call a 21st century mood-ring, by which we begin to telegraph our phenomenology, and explore entirely new landscapes of experience. In the second half we discuss how any sufficiently "crisp" theory of consciousness can be directed at anything, including cosmological phenomena like black holes and even the Big Bang.
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Can Mind Affect Matter? Collective Consciousness Experiments
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What is the relationship between mind and matter?
In this episode of Waking Cosmos (watch below) we explore how several independent scientific studies suggest that the mind has a mysterious influence on the world. This research also seems to reveal that something like a "collective consciousness" may exist. While this evidence remains controversial, a number of highly qualified scientists are convinced that these strange effects are real.
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The Rise of Panpsychism in Philosophy and Science
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The Search to Understand the Nature of Consciousness is Leading to a New View of Reality.
Read MoreThe Esoteric Science of Psychic Phenomena
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Today a surprising amount scientific studies suggest that phenomena that were once described as "magic" could have a basis in reality. An interview with Dean Radin PhD
Read MoreIs Consciousness Fundamental?
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Is consciousness fundamental to reality? An increasing number of scientists and philosophers think it could be. Today I read from my book Origins of Consciousness, which explores the possibility that consciousness is fundamental to reality.
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