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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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A neuroscientist lost a 25-year bet to a philosopher—and it may be one of the most revealing failures in modern science. In 1998, Christof Koch bet David Chalmers that within 25 years, neuroscience would identify the precise brain mechanisms responsible for consciousness. Research teams around the world launched ambitious experiments to track and measure conscious experience in the brain. The deadline came—and the mystery remained.
In this fascinating episode, Raghunath and Kaustubha unpack the implications of that failed wager. Why can’t the most advanced minds in science explain subjective experience? And what did the ancient yogis know that modern labs still don’t?
From Vedic insights to modern mind-benders, this episode blends laughter, science, and timeless wisdom in a way only Wisdom of the Sages can.
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0:59.0 | You know, the way that the article ended was it said the really hard problem because the easy problem was hard and then you get to the hard problem. Given that the easy problem is actually |
1:04.0 | hard, the really hard problem of how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective |
1:10.6 | consciousness, conscious experience, |
1:13.2 | probably will remain unsolved for a very long time to come. |
1:17.2 | Perhaps it will never be solved. |
1:18.6 | Perhaps it's not true. |
1:20.3 | You know, like, are we willing to consider that? |
1:22.1 | Perhaps it'll never be solved because consciousness is not generated within the brain. |
1:28.6 | And I've always thought that, like, let's say they even kind of discovered the soft problem |
1:33.9 | or the easy problem of consciousness. |
1:35.4 | Let's say they were able to kind of draw parallels between brain activity and consciousness |
1:42.8 | and show, look, it's happening in this part of the brain |
1:44.9 | right here, right now. |
1:47.0 | But couldn't that be very similar to, like, discovering, like, music in a radio? |
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