volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Consciousness & Altered States The mathematics of mind-time The special trick of consciousness is being able to project action and time into a range of possible futures Karl Friston
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Philosophy of Mind Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true Philip Goff
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Philosophy of Mind Telling memories Jewish émigrés from the former Soviet Union tell inconsistent stories. What does this say about the nature of memory? Helen Haft
Essay/Neuroscience Maps in the head How animals navigate their way around provides clues to how the brain forms, stores and retrieves memories Kate Jeffery
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Neuroscience The real problem It looks like scientists and philosophers might have made consciousness far more mysterious than it needs to be Anil K Seth
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Philosophy of Mind The mind isn’t locked in the brain but extends far beyond it Keith Frankish
volume_up play_arrow pause Idea/Knowledge Whatever you think, you don’t necessarily know your own mind Keith Frankish
ORIGINAL Video/Virtual Reality New realities are imminent: how VR reframes big questions in philosophy 5 minutes
Video/Philosophy of Language Does the meaning of words rest in our private minds or in our shared experience? 2 minutes
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Should we be afraid of AI? Machines seem to be getting smarter and smarter and much better at human jobs, yet true AI is utterly implausible. Why? Luciano Floridi
Essay/Philosophy of Mind Consciousness creep Our machines could become self-aware without our knowing it. We need a better way to define and test for consciousness George Musser
Video/History of Ideas If, as Shakespeare suggested, all the world’s a stage, do we have a ‘true self’? 2 minutes
Essay/Philosophy of Mind I am not a story Some find it comforting to think of life as a story. Others find that absurd. So are you a Narrative or a non-Narrative? Galen Strawson
Essay/Illness & Disease A good forgetting Personal identity is tied to memory, but sometimes we find peace, clarity and a true sense of completeness in the lapses Marianne Janack
Essay/Illness & Disease The disremembered Dementia undermines all of our philosophical assumptions about the coherence of the self. But that might be a good thing Charles Leadbeater
Video/Free Will Can we really make conscious decisions, or is agency just a trick of the brain? 2 minutes
Essay/Cultures & Languages From Aesop to doge The animal who speaks in a human voice is a figure of the most enduring imaginative power. What do we hope to hear? Stassa Edwards
Video/Philosophy of Mind A colony of cooperating jellyfish challenges conventional ideas of individuality 2 minutes
Video/Philosophy of Mind A comparative cognition road trip across the US in search of a map of the mind 21 minutes
Essay/Law & Justice The concrete abyss We know solitary confinement annihilates the minds of its victims — but what does it do to the rest of us? Lisa Guenther
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Endless fun The question is not whether we can upload our brains onto a computer, but what will become of us when we do Michael Graziano
Essay/Consciousness & Altered States The mental block Consciousness is the greatest mystery in science. Don’t believe the hype: the Hard Problem is here to stay Michael Hanlon
volume_up play_arrow pause Essay/Consciousness & Altered States How the light gets out Consciousness is the ‘hard problem’, the one that confounds science and philosophy. Has a new theory cracked it? Michael Graziano
Essay/Addiction The outsider While one person dabbles in drugs with few ill-effects, another will become a chronic addict. What's the difference? Hanna Pickard
Essay/Computing & Artificial Intelligence Omens When we peer into the fog of the deep future what do we see – human extinction or a future among the stars? Ross Andersen