BS 162 "Rethinking Consciousness" with Michael Graziano

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Ginger Campbell, MD

Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Neuroscience, Medicine, Brain, Science

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode is an interview with Dr. Michael Graziano, author of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience. We discuss how his Attention Schema Theory compliments several current theories and how it answers the question of how the brain generates subjective experience ("qualia").

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0:00.0	everything people think, however strange or however sensible, derives ultimately from information constructed in the brain.
0:07.0	So at the heart of it all is this realization that really the study of consciousness is not the study of how a non-physical magic emerges
0:15.7	from the brain, but instead the study of how a machine computes information about itself and
0:22.4	how a brain thinks it is conscious.
0:27.0	Welcome to Brain Science, the podcast where we explore how recent discoveries in
0:35.0	neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brain makes us human.
0:40.0	I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 162. Today is the third of our
0:47.3	four-part discussion about the neuroscience of consciousness.
0:52.8	But before I tell you about today's guests, I want to remind you that you can find more
0:56.9	episodes of brain science, along with complete show notes and transcripts, on our website at brain science podcast.com. Of course
1:06.8	you can subscribe to brain science for free in your favorite podcasting app. You can also send me feedback via email at brainscience
1:16.0	podcast at gmail.com. You can leave voice feedback via speakpipe at Speak Pipe.com
1:23.8	and you can leave comments on our
1:28.8	Brain Science Podcast Facebook fan page.
1:32.3	Today we're going to be talking with Dr. Michael Graziano about his new book,
1:37.3	Rethinking Consciousness, a scientific theory of subjective experience. It's a great pleasure to welcome Michael back to
1:46.2	brain science. He's previously appeared in episodes 108 and 142. One last item, although this is the third of a four-part series, don't worry if you haven't
1:57.6	listened to the first two parts yet.
2:00.0	This episode is appropriate for listeners of all backgrounds.
2:03.4	Michael, it is great to have you back on brain science.
2:11.8	Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here.
2:14.0	And what's the name of your new book?
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