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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: David Chalmers & Iain McGilchrist
Description: David Chalmers is credited with setting the terms for much of the work done in the philosophy of mind today when he posed the 'hard problem' of consciousness: how does matter, which is fundamentally inanimate, give rise to or interact with consciousness, which is qualitative and phenomenal - always a 'what it's like'?
His most recent book, Reality +, is an investigation of the possibility that our entire experience could be an illusion.Iain McGilchrist is a literary scholar turned psychiatrist whose 2009 book The Master And His Emissary developed the 'two hemisphere' model of the brain and cognition...