BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of "The Spontaneous Brain"
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Ginger Campbell, MD
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🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
BS 174 is an interview with neuroscientist and philosopher Georg Northoff about his fascinating book "The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem." We explore the significance of the growing evidence that most of the brain's activity occurs independently of external stimuli with a focus on the implications of this finding for our understanding of how the brain generates consciousness.
Links and References:
- The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem by Georg Northoff
- The Brain from Inside Out by György Buzsáki (BS 172)
- Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark (BS 126)
- Northoff G, et al. Is temporal-spatial dynamics the “common currency” of brain and mind? In Quest of “Spatiotemporal Neuroscience”. Why Life Rev (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2019.05.002
- Georg Northoff website: http://www.georgnorthoff.com (for videos, talks and additional papers
- Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for additional references and episode transcripts.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe we need to replace the concept of mind by another concept. |
| 0:06.0 | Why do I say this? Because we are somewhat stuck in our current discussion. |
| 0:11.0 | We say, is the mind the brain, can the mind be reduced, is the mind |
| 0:15.8 | different and that always assume some sort of an entity or even if it doesn't |
| 0:21.0 | exist the entity of mind then we can be reduced to the entity of brain. |
| 0:25.8 | I think that starting point is simply the wrong question. |
| 0:30.0 | I would rather say maybe mental features like consciousness and self cannot be reduced to this mind |
| 0:37.0 | brain thing. |
| 0:38.0 | There's a lot of empirical evidence that maybe mental features can be traced to the degree and to the way the brain aligns to its environment. |
| 0:46.7 | Welcome to brain science, the podcast where we explore how recent discoveries in |
| 0:55.2 | neuroscience are unraveling the mystery of how our brain makes us human. I'm your |
| 1:00.8 | host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 174. |
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