Episode 91

The eighth episode in a series wherein Mark Taylor talks with me about the mind-body problem and the so-called "hard problem" of consciousness. I continue to explain Robin Carhart-Davis's psilocybin research on the human brain's "default mode network", which leads Mark to explain Bernard Baars' "global workspace theory". We then start to wind things up with a (as promised in an earlier episode) an account of the Penrose-Hameroff "microtubule-based" theory of consciousness.

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• Robin Carhart-Harris
• psilocybin
• default mode network
• Buddhist meditation
• psychedelic mushrooms
• boddhisatvas
• Daniel Dennett
• Microsoft Windows operating system
• "global workspace" theory
• Bernard Baars
• visual cortex
• frontal lobe
• (neural) commisurotomy
• pineal gland
• the self
• consciousness
• Dennett's "philosophical zombies"
• the "hard problem" of consciousness
• microtubules
• "microtubule theory" of consciousness (Penrose-Hameroff "Orchestrated-OR" theory)
• Roger Penrose
• Stuart Hameroff
• quantum (de)coherence
• grasshopper mouse (Onychomys)