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Episode Appearances
Making Sense with Sam Harris · May 12, 2026
#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness
“Proposed evolutionary explanation for consciousness: enables navigation of complex social environments through theory of mind”
Hard Problem of ConsciousnessNeural Correlates of ConsciousnessPsychedelic-Assisted Therapy
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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Apr 1, 2026
Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)
“Developer of free energy principle explaining how organisms resist entropy through consciousness”
Consciousness definition and the hard problem of subjective experienceEvolution of consciousness and theory of mind in social primatesPlant sentience and neurobiology of plants
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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · Feb 9, 2026
343 | Tom Griffiths on The Laws of Thought
“Neuroscientist whose free energy principle discussed as alternative framework for understanding brain optimization”
Bayesian Inference and Probabilistic ReasoningFormal Logic and Mathematical Foundations of ThoughtNeural Networks and Deep Learning Architecture
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Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) · Jan 23, 2026
Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]
“Neuroscientist who developed the free energy principle; childhood observation of wood lice inspired decades of work on unified theory of behavior”
Free Energy Principle and neuroscience reductionismBrain metaphors and technological determinism in scienceFallacy of misplaced concreteness in AI and neuroscience
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