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Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an American public intellectual and investment banker. He is also an author, television producer, columnist and commentator, especially on topics related to China. Kuhn is the creator of the PBS series ⁠ @CloserToTruthTV ⁠.View the Landscape of Consciousness Map ⁠here⁠.

TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) The Landscape of Consciousness Map
(16:32) Materialism
(26:58) What Counts As Materialism?
(45:12) The Difference Between Panpsychism and Materialism
(49:36) What’s the Difference Between Panpsychism and Idealism?
(58:12) Idealism and Monism
(1:03:51) Do All These “Theories” Really Differ?
(1:08:40) Dualism and Property Dualism
(1:20:30) Are Psychedelic Experiences Significant?
(1:32:02) The “Challenge” Category
(1:42:36) Quantum Theories of Consciousness
(1:47:57) Integrated Information Theory
(2:01:53) Theological Approaches to Consciousness
(2:15:33) How Theory of Mind Brings Us Together

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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) What’s So Great About Aristotle?
(03:06) Actuality and Potentiality
(12:59) Forms: Aristotle vs Plato
(20:02) The Four Causes
(25:16) Evolution and Final Causation
(29:40) Did Aristotle Believe In God?
(32:38) The Unmoved Mover
(38:58) The Soul (Is Not What You Might Think)
(48:51) How Aristotle Invented Formal Logic
(55:54) The Nicomachean Ethics
(01:15:56) Ethics as Descriptive
(01:21:04) Where To Start With Aristotle

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Keith Frankish is a British philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of cognitive science.

Read Keith's essay, "Illusionism as a theory of consciousness" (2016).
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Keith Frankish and Philip Goff co-host a channel 'Mind Chat', where they debate panpsychism versus illusionism, and explore cutting-edge thought on consciousness:  / @mindchat  

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(0:00) Is Consciousness An Illusion?
(4:02) Do We Have a Private World?
(10:00) The Nature of Visual Experience
(20:13) Is Awareness Behavioural?
(28:17) Isn’t Introspection Itself a Private Experience?
(33:04) Philosophical Zombies
(43:05) What Motivates Illusionism?
(50:02) Psychedelics and the Dissolution of the Self
(59:23) Why Are Philosophers Always Categorising?
(1:10:31) Does Alex’s Triangle Exist?
(1:21:40) Is Pain Just a Reaction to Stimulus?
(1:49:05) Is Pain an Emergent Phenomenon?
(1:55:52) What Illusion Is Actually Happening?
(1:59:07) Can AI Be Conscious?

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@TommyEdisonXP is a blind YouTuber and radio presenter. He got his start online as the “Blind Film Critic”, reviewing movies despite being unable to see them, and thereby offering a unique angle on their storytelling.

TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Being a Blind YouTuber
(2:03) How Do You Understand Blindness If You Are Blind From Birth?
(4:26) Being Blind in School
(7:20) Tommy’s Early Life
(12:11) Has Life Become More Accessible For the Blind?
(19:35) How Vision is Embedded in Our Language
(21:35) How Does A Blind Person Watch A Movie?
(25:40) What Does Tommy Know About Colour?
(27:51) Mary’s Room
(32:16) Can A Blind Person Play Video Games?
(35:39) The Questions People Are Too Afraid to Ask
(41:42) How Does A Blind Person Understand Attractiveness?
(44:27) What Can We Make More Accessible?
(48:24) Why Electric Cars Aren’t Best For Everyone
(51:33) Is Offering Help Patronising?
(54:35) What Can Tommy Do That People Think He Can’t?
(58:32) Why Tommy Chooses Joy

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Simon Critchley is a British philosopher, author and professor at The New School in New York. He is best known for his work on existentialism, mysticism, ethics and continental philosophy, and is the author of books including The Book of Dead Philosophers, Faith of the Faithless and Mysticism. Get Simon's book Mysticism ⁠here⁠.

TIMESTAMPS:
(7:52) What is Mysticism?
(18:58) Unification With the Divine
(29:58) Mysticism and the Self
(40:38) Why Are So Many Mystics Women?
(48:41) The Limits of Language
(59:54) Was Pascal a Mystic?
(01:03:21) Where Does Simon Stand on Mysticism?
(01:11:22) Where Should We Start With Learning About Mysticism?
(01:15:36) Imagery in Simon’s Book

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