In Search of the Self

Are you an illusion?

The Limits of Logic

Should we embrace the irrational?

The Fractured Mind

Bence Nanay | Should we avoid temptations?

The Dance of Life

Is experience all that we have?

In Search Of Ourselves

Is self-discovery a desirable and vital goal?

Neuroscience vs. Philosophy

Explaining the secrets of the mind

Brave New Horizon

Where will technology lead the human race?

The Limits of Reason

Is knowledge stranger than reason?

The Illusion of Sense

Do our senses radically limit our understanding?

How to be a Stoic

Live your Best Life

Knowing Others and Knowing Oneself

Are the minds of others profoundly unknowable?

The Immortal Now

Can philosophy teach us how to die?

The Mind and the World

Raymond Tallis | The issue with neuromania

The Limits of Freedom

Is there such a thing as too much freedom?

The Secrets of Consciousness

Can the brain explain experience?

Matter and Mind

Is consciousness inexplicable?

Hearts and Minds

Should intuition or reason guide us?

The Story of I

Where does the narrative of the self come from?

Emperor's New Genes

Are genes not the blueprint for life we imagined?

The Chemistry of Freedom

Is free will an illusion?

Mind and the Universe

Is consciousness stranger than we thought?

Fate, Freedom, and Neuroscience

The science of free will

Truth, Lies and Self-Deception

Can we see ourselves clearly if we want to?

Secrets of the Mind

Can science explain consciousness?

The Mind's Eye

Consciousness and the soul

The Extended Mind

Is consciousness confined to the body?

Owning Ourselves

Are our bodies our property?

Being Conscious

The science and philosophy of consciousness

What happens to our bodies when we die?

Biologist Brooke Magnati reveals the secrets of decay

On Having a Mind, Having a Body, and Being a Person

The Evolution of Desire

Do genetics explain all of human nature?

Defeating Aging

Do you want to live forever?

The New Bodies

Transhumanism: Rise of the Cyborgs

The Fragility of the Human Personality

Orgasmatron

What can MRI scans of brains in orgasm tell us?

After Darwin

Is the age of selfish gene theory over?

Are Doctors Bad For Us?

Medicine, trust, and power

The Illusion of Race

How do we move on from race?

Dangerous Convictions

Frank Furedi | Could we live without certainty?

Actual Consciousness

The Limits of Human Consciousness and Thought

After Evolution

Is culture beyond genetics?

Stories of Desire

Can desire help us make sense of the world?

At One With Ourselves

Are meditation and mindfulness just myths?

Doctors in the Age of Google

Is it time to rid ourselves of medical authority?

Mind in the 21st Century

The Tyranny of Freedom

Do we have too much choice?

The Evolution of Suicide

Nicholas Humphrey | Self-killing's genetic history

Doctors and the Danger Industry

Can big data improve the effectiveness of drugs?

Life On The Edge

How can we halt society's existential crises?

The Evolution of Consciousness

The transformative ideas of Owen Barfield

Overcoming death

Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?

The Edge of Reason

Beyond the limits of rationality

Metaphors of the Mind

Does metaphor hold the key to consciousness?

Why We Are Who We Are

The epigenetic revolution

Planet of the Clones

Should we clone human beings?

The Uniqueness of Humanity

Is evolution progress?

The Road to the Good Life

Is reason the key to a better world?

Genes, Cells, and Brains

Taking on the bioscience industry

Are Selves Unreal?

Debunking the establishment's attack on the Self

A Paradigm of Health

What are the limits of western medicine?

The Naked Truth

How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?

Animal Reason

Is consciousness unique to humans?

Cyborg Future

Microprocessors & nano-robots in the human body

Inside the Mind’s Eye

The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene

Your Life in the Balance

Should we trust doctors less than we do?

Documenting Death

Whose death is worth recording? | Brooke Magnanti

Catching Sight of Ourselves

Who looks back in the mirror?

Docs in the Dock

What can we do about medical errors?

The Philosopher’s Guide to Style

Why appearance matters

The Ego Trick

Is the self an illusion?

Are Hospitals Bad For Us?

Social justice impacts our health more than medicine

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice

Neoliberalism makes for crude science

Morality, Hypocrisy and Health

Drugs and Western imperialism

Sex, Science, and Stereotypes

Why women have evolved differently from men

Sensuality and Deception

Who Looks Back in the Mirror

Are we any closer to understanding the self, and what makes each one of us who we are?

Outrageous Fortune

Fate in modern society

The Architecture of Being

Navigating our relationships

How Science Tells Us Who We Are

George Ellis | Nature vs nurture

Designing Life

Entering the Unknown

What can we know of ourselves and the world?

Thinking Afresh

Is consistency consistent?

How to Live Forever

A future without morality

Medicine's Mistakes

Should we distrust medicine?

Meat, Metal, Code

Human and Superhuman

Is the pursuit of eternal youth fair on the young?

The View From Outside

Should We Change Our Genes?

Is ‘gene-doping’ a threat to humanity?

The Mystery of Life

If we find extraterrestrial life, will we recognise it as life at all?

Is Descartes Irrelevant?

Should we focus on modern philosophy?

Stem Cells and the Future of Medicine

Can stem cells ethically transform medicine?

Entering the Soul Niche

How a belief in it has kept humanity going

Trust Me, I'm Google

Medicine in a digital age

Rebecca Goldstein | In-depth Interview

On the role of intuiton in Philosophy

Paul Boghossian | In-depth Interview

On truth, intuition and beyond

Timothy Williamson | In-depth Interview

How can philosophy help us think more clearly?

How to Change Your Habits of Thought

Understanding the patterning instinct

The Self Around the World

Why the East/West Distinction is Wrong

In search of freedom

Do we choose to follow the rules?

A History of the Conscious World

Panpsychism's roots in ancient Indian philosophy

The Right Way to Think

Can we trust our reason?

Illusions and Dreams

The philosophy of perception

The miracle of mind

Will there ever be consensus on consciousness?

The consciousness puzzle

Is panpsychism the solution?

The truth about free will

Is choice an illusion?

The freedom paradox

Does free will exist?

The path to the future

Susan Schneider on AI

How to fathom timelessness via psychedelics

What should time mean to us?

The continuity of the self

An interview with Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

The different places of the self

The problem with individualism

Consciousness and the world

The relationship between experience and reality

Beyond Us: Knowledge

Episode 1: What is knowledge and what is it for?

Are you an illusion?

Reshaping the self

Arc of life: Daniel Dennett

An interview with the world-renowned philosopher

The rational animal

Are we any good at making decisions?

How to die before you die

Discovering psychedelics in the Ancient world

Beyond Us: Bonus Review

Episode 5: Bonus Review

Ideas, identity and influence

An interview with Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah

The necessity and danger of belief

Does faith undermine knowledge?

Lost in the Matrix

Are we living in a computer simulation?

Hallucinating reality

Anil Seth's radical new theory of the self

Philosophy, psychoanalysis and the wisdom of youth

An interview with Maria Balaska

Free will is a necessary illusion

An interview with the acclaimed Galen Strawson

Consciousness and Fundamental Physics

Is consciousness fundamental to reality?

In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

An exploration of the mind

Rethinking reason

Is rationality a delusion?

How to lose your head

Exploring the headless way

The dawn of consciousness

Did consciousness evolve?

The new science of consciousness

Will science crack the mystery of consciousness?

Where sceptics fail

An interview with CosmicSkeptic

Catching sight of our self

Is it possible to know ourselves?

Why you can't pay attention

Living in the age of the attention economy

Breaking through the consciousness stalemate

An interview with Philip Goff

How to be a sceptic

Using scepticism in the search for truth

Consciousness in the machine

Could AI ever be conscious?

The passion of reason

Does emotion rule over reason?

A tale of truth with Simon Blackburn

The case against relativism

The future of freedom

Can experiments settle the free will debate?

The key to consciousness

Is materialism a fundamental mistake?

Truth, delusion and psychedelic reality

Are psychedelics a window into reality?

The seduction of thought

Is thought a distraction from reality?

AI consciousness cannot exist

Why a mind will never exist in a machine

Taking leave of reason

Is rationality as vital as we thought?

Consciousness and ChatGPT

Is ChatGPT conscious?

Why the rational believe the irrational

Who believes conspiracies and why?

The secrets of irrationality

Why we believe conspiracies

The perception bias

Is bias at the heart of how we see the world?

Consciousness and material reality

Thinking outside the laws of physics

After Darwin

Evolution beyond the selfish gene

Gene Editing in the Wild

The ethics of CRISPR technology

What's wrong with us?

Is it time for AI to do more to help doctors?

The cause of death

Nobel laureate challenges lockdown

The Uncanny Valley

How to model a pandemic

Risk, Evidence and Lockdown

The right response to Covid-19?

Science to the Rescue

How do we decide on the truth?

The virus vs lockdown

Will we be on the right side of history?

Editing the future

The influence of CRISPR-Cas9

For your own good

Longevity vs. wellbeing

Life as we know it

What does it mean to be alive?

Science, hypocrisy and lies

The truth deficit

Human blueprints

An interview with Robert Plomin

How we became who we are

Politics in the nature vs nurture debate

Our saviour or our downfall

Does reliance on science doom us to a grisly fate?

Chicken or egg

Are we looking at life wrong?

The Future Human

The potential of CRISPR technology

The oddity of life

Our explanation for life will be counterintuitive

The matrix or the miracle

The future of the family

Trust, science and neutrality

Is science the gold standard of objective truth?

The pattern seekers

Why can humans alone invent?

Alien thinking

An exploration of possible alien minds

The making of us

Are humans shaped by genetics or environment?

Evolutionary Masters of the Universe

How gene editing technology will change humanity

Wave goodbye to being human

The transhumanist dream

Memes all the way down

Is Dawkins' concept useful?

Extra-terrestrial life

Are we the sharpest cookie in the jar?

Beyond the self and non-self

Is the biological self a delusion?

Dawkins re-examined

Dawkins' legacy

Living forever

Should we want to live forever?

Dawkins on the crisis of rationality

In conversation with Richard Dawkins

The future of sex

Exploring the next stage of humanity

The medicine myth

The failure of medicalising philosophy

Why Dawkins is wrong

An interview with the renowned biologist

Ancient traits in the modern world

Is our neurobiology at odds with the modern world?

Free will is not an illusion

Biology against determinism

The Contraception Delusion

Fertility, sex and the future

The goodness paradox

Humans are neither good or bad

The life and philosophy of Denis Noble

Esteemed biologist reflects on life and career

The return of eugenics?

The danger of eugenics

The origin of life

The mystery of life's beginning