Consciousness with Hakwan Lau (BS 196)
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This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks about shortcomings in current theories about how the brain generates consciousness, but he also introduces something he calls perceptual reality monitoring.
Although this is a somewhat technical discussion it is accessible to listeners who are new to the neuroscience of consciousness.
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In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience by Hakwan Lau
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Recent Episodes about Consciousness:
Jon Mallatt, co-author of The Ancient Origins of Consciousness: How the Brain Created Experience BS 128.
Neuroscience of Conscious: an overview episode (BS 160: free mp3)
Joseph LeDoux, author of The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. BS 161 Free mp3.
Michael Graziano, author of Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience. BS 162 Free mp3.
Christof Koch, author of The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed. BS 163 Free mp3.
Bernard Baars, creator of global workspace theory (GWT) author of Consciousness: Science & Subjectivity, and collaborator David Edelman; BS 177 Free mp3.
Bruce Goldstein, author of The Mind: Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain; BS 180 Free mp3.
Mark Solms, author The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Origins of Consciousness; BS 184 Free mp3.
Anil Seth, author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness; BS 188 Free mp3
Antonio Damasio, author of Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious; BS 189 Free mp3
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