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Chasing Consciousness

The curious person’s guide to all things mind! Have you ever wondered how it is that your thoughts and feelings relate to the grey matter in your head? How space and time came to be out of nothing? How what life means to us influences our day-to-day struggles with mental health? In conversation with experts in physics, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy, Chasing Consciousness will take you to the very fringes of reality and share with you the groundbreaking discoveries that are dramatically

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01:29:06

THE YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS & SOLUTIONS - Louis...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/09/30

Why are we seeing such a rise in youth mental health diagnosis? How do we relativise this against the rise in mental health awareness? What’s the best approach for parents seeking solutions? How can social-connection and loneliness completely change trauma integration? What role does the recent explosion of persuasive technologies in young peoples lives play in the changing situation?In this episode we have the important topic of Youth Mental Health to get ourselves up to date on. Today we’re

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01:40:14

METACOGNITION: THE SCIENCE OF SELF-AWARENESS -...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/09/15

How and why did human’s develop self-awareness of what we know and don’t know? How does it develop in relation to how we evaluate what other people know? What are the risks of cognitive bias tainting our ability to learn and self correct? In this episode, we have the interesting question of our own self-awareness, or Meta-cognition, to understand. For centuries philosophers have called on us to “know thyself”, but only now with the tools of modern neuroscience have we been able to scientifically

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01:28:04

ANALYSING UFO EXPERIENCER'S BRAINS & ANOMALOUS...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/08/31

Is the brain structure found in many UFO experiencers and remote viewers related to intuition? Are anomalous isotope ratio alloys, allegedly fallen from UFO’s, evidence that can help important jumps in the research into energy and transportation technologies? How can this be both a physical and psychological phenomenon simultaneously? Is there a connection between the mind and this brain structure and the phenomena?In this episode, we take a stab at talking scientifically about the fascinating,

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01:18:00

UPDATING OUR MENTAL HEALTH APPROACHES - Camilla Nord...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/07/31

How can neuroscience help us personalise mental health diagnoses and treatments? How are mental heath stats changing and why? How effective are life style changes as a prevention? What other new treatments are proving promising and effective?In this episode we’re going to get an update on all the recent research from neuroscience that’s studying mental health, and not just the issues and the treatments being used to deal with them, but also the importance of the brain itself in the perception of

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01:09:09

THE PHYSICS OF RETRO-CAUSATION AND TIME SYMMETRY -...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/07/14

Can time symmetry in physics, combined with exceptional violations of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and the “quantum handshake” transactional interpretation of Quantum mechanics, open up main stream physics to the possibility of retro-causation? Could it help to explain the many paradoxes left open in modern physics? and is there experimental evidence for it?Today we have the extraordinary possibility of retro-causation to get our heads around: the apparently impossible phenomenon of events in the

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02:00:03

THE MEANING CRISIS & EMBODIED PRACTICE SOLUTIONS -...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/06/30

How have we ended up in a meaning crisis and what are the symptoms? Why is embodiment important to knowing? Why is an ecology of practices part of the solution? Today we have the growing issue of The Meaning Crisis to discuss, and the embodied practices that could offer a few solutions. This conversation is a part 2, following directly on from Episode #51, where John and I talked about Collective intelligence, and how the evolution of distributed cognition has led to homo-sapiens being such

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02:03:04

THE BELIEVING BRAIN & CONSPIRACY THEORY - Michael...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/06/24

Why do we have the tendency to believe things when they may not be true? Why do we project patterns, agency and meaning onto the world when sometimes there is none? How can we consider the probabilities of conspiracies to identify the ones that may be true? How do we encourage brave journalism that calls out conspiracies even by powerful institutions, in spite of the pejorative term ‘conspiracy theorist’?Today we have the uncomfortable topic of how our brains often believe things which aren’t

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02:03:04

THE BELIEVING BRAIN & CONSPIRACY THEORY - Michael...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/06/14

Why do we have the tendency to believe things when they may not be true? Why do we project patterns, agency and meaning onto the world when sometimes there is none? How can we consider the probabilities of conspiracies to identify the ones that may be true? How do we encourage brave journalism that calls out conspiracies even by powerful institutions, in spite of the pejorative term ‘conspiracy theorist’?Today we have the uncomfortable topic of how our brains often believe things which aren’t true

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01:49:15

Dr. Sarah McKay - FEMALE HORMONES: MENOPAUSE &...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/05/31

What role do estrogen and the menstrual cycle play in the moods of women? Is ‘baby brain’ a real phenomena or does the brain actually sharpen during motherhood? What are the symptoms of menopause and how natural and effective is HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy)?- Use the time stamps for those interested only in the neuroscience of Menopause (01:07:45) and Motherhood (37:00). - NO VIDEO Episode, audio only. Today we have the important topic of women’s hormones to up our awareness about. A big

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02:02:09

Jeremy Rifkin - THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SOLUTIONS

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/05/14

What technological solutions can mitigate our ecological and economic crises? Why are horizontally integrated 'smart' data sharing networks so important? What are 'Glocalisation' and Bio-regional governance? Will we rise to the challenge in time to survive the next extinction event?Today we have the technological solutions to our economic and ecological crisis offered by the Third Industrial Revolution to consider. Some may jump to the conclusion that technology and

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01:30:31

Dr. Neil Theise - COMPLEXITY THEORY & SELF ORGANISING...

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2024/04/30

Why do complex systems self-organise? What is cellular uncertainty and stem cell plasticity? Can we create artificial digital life that’s subject to the same creative adaptability that nature and life demonstrate?Today we have the extraordinary phenomena of self-organisation in Complex Systems to look into. We’re going to be looking into the conditions for a system to be considered complex, how a certain amount of randomness in the system releases the creativity required to permit adaptability,

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01:16:09

Peter Levine PHD - TRAUMA STORED IN THE BODY: SOMATIC...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/04/14

How are traumatic memories stored in the body? How has Somatic Experiencing helped thousands of people release the symptoms of trauma through bodily practices rather than talky therapy? How did Peter resolve his own devastating childhood trauma? What will a trauma aware society be like?In this episode we have the fascinating question of the different ways traumatic memories are stored to think about, and how the body itself and not only the brain is instrumental in the way the memory’s are made

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01:28:27

Diana Pasulka PHD - BELIEF IN UFOS: COLLECTIVE VISION...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/03/31

In what way is beef in UFOs religious-like? Is there evidence for collective visions of these objects and entities, or rather for their objective reality? In what way could the experience have elements of both?In this episode we have the ever more mainstream story of UFO experiences to assess; Not necessarily the important questions around the existence of the phenomenon, which the office of the US director of National Intelligence confirmed in an official 2021 report that they were, in fact, a

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02:01:50

Stephen Wolfram PHD - THE COMPUTATIONAL UNIVERSE &...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2024/03/15

Does the use of computer models in physics change the way we see the universe? How far reaching are the implications of computation irreducibility? Are observer limitations key to the way we conceive the laws of physics?In this episode we have the difficult yet beautiful topic of trying to model complex systems like nature and the universe computationally to get into; and how beyond a low level of complexity all systems, seem to become equally unpredictable. We have a whole episode in this series

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01:57:41

John Vervaeke PHD - USING OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Chasing Consciousness ·

2023/12/01

How has the evolution of cognition led to homo-sapiens being such effective collaborators and how is the collective knowledge and wisdom of the society distributed and passed on to later generations? How can we apply the amplified wisdom of distributed cognition to solve some of humanities biggest problems?Today we have the important fields of Collective Intelligence and how we can use it to solve our problems as a society, to try and get our heads around. We’ll be discussing the relevance of

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01:19:50

Rebecca Dennis - BREATHWORK EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness ·

2023/11/15

How does breathwork interact with our nervous system, access memories and help integrate traumatic memories? How has it got results treating auto-immune disease, addiction, agrophobia, PTSD and depression? How can it help sleep, detoxification, digestion, immunity, and taking control of negative thought patterns. In this episode we have the hugely popular practice of Breathwork to look into. After millennia of it being used in bodily practices like martial arts and yoga, conscious breathing was

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01:20:15

Michael Levin PHD - BIOELECTRICITY AND THE BLUEPRINTS...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2023/11/01

What role does bioelectricity play in the formation of new organisms? How do cells connect to form a hierarchy of ever more advanced cognnition, preferences and goals? What are the implications for regenerative medicine, sense of self and consciousness? In this episode we have the extraordinary role of bio-electricity in the orchestration and elaboration of organisms to look at. I became interested in this topic in the nineties when I read a book that was controversial at the time: ‘The Body

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01:05:24

Dr. James Hollis - 'THE SHADOW' AND HOW TO INTEGRATE IT

Chasing Consciousness ·

2023/10/14

What did Jung mean by ‘The Shadow’? What did he mean by making the Unconscious conscious? What is integrating the shadow so useful for us and our relationships? In this episode we cover the fascinating topic of Carl Jung’s concept of ‘The Shadow’ in analytic psychology; a term that has become overused in pop psychology and seems to be understood in many different ways depending on who you talk to. To clarify the mystery, our guest today is one of the worlds most published and respected Jungian

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01:18:06

Shohini Ghose PHD - QUANTUM COMPUTERS AND WOMEN IN...

Chasing Consciousness ·

2023/09/30

How close are we to a scalable quantum computer? How do they work? Why is it so difficult for women in science? Is that changing? In this episode we have the fascinating new technology of Quantum Computers to get our heads around. They’ve been in the news a lot recently for the extraordinary computing power they could offer if harnessed properly; and also in conjunction with misleadingly named ‘teleportation’ technologies that can encode information in a quantum key and have it appear at the

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01:13:21

Roy Baumeister PHD - NEGATIVITY BIAS EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness ·

2023/09/14

Why do we have a negativity bias that predisposes us to focus on bad things in the world? How can we channel that natural tendency to learn and improve, rather that be afraid and depressed by it? What are the implications of negativity bias for the functioning of our society ongoing? In this episode we’ve got the important topic of the inherent Negativity Bias in human psychology to assess. This is the tendency for bad events, experiences and emotions to have more impact than good ones. We see this

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