Ep 6: In Hindsight with Jay Shapiro

09/17/19 • 30 min

Jay Shapiro looks back at Episode 6 with Erik Hoel and speaks about a central question about the mind/body problem. What is fundamental? Plus a guest joins the hindsight and throws some good questions his way.

Jay's fun primer on consciousness is here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb7VcWaQLT0&

Jay's fun primer on consciousness is here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb7VcWaQLT0&

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S01E06: Conscious Robots - Erik Hoel

As your finger hovers over the power button on your computer it says, "Please don't turn me off. That will hurt and kill me. I want to live!" Should you believe it?

Hosts Jay Shapiro and Coleman Hughes grapple with "the hard problem of consciousness" and discuss Integrated Information Theory (IIT), one of the leading scientific theories of consciousness, with consciousness researcher and scientist Erik Hoel.

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Betsy is a nurse who believes that one must accept Jesus to earn entry into heaven. Steve is an atheist who also happens to be on his death bed and a patient of Betsy.

Best selling author and well-known atheist Sean Carroll joins host Jay Shapiro for a conversation about death, religion, the after life, and the ethics of a hospital bed.