Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Psychedelic Salon
Episode: Podcast 104 – “Consciousness Isn’t What It Seems To Be”
Description: Guest speaker: Susan Blackmore
PROGRAM NOTES:
(Minutes : Seconds into program)
03:30 Jon Hanna introduces Susan Blackmore
08:04 "A lot of people kind of think that scientists like myself are kind of pushing the problem [of what is consciousness] away, some are, but there’s a huge excitement about what we do with this mystery, and it’s a very strange mystery indeed."
09:22 "That’s what we mean by consciousness, in contemporary science, what it’s like for you."
09:38 Susan talks about ‘the great chasm’ between mind and brain, sometimes called the ‘fathomless abyss’ . . . "It’s the chasm between subjective, how it is to me, and objectiv...