Semir Zeki
UCL neuroscientist and founding father of the study of Neuroesthetics, Semir Zeki is the author of Inner Vision and Splendours of the Brain. His awards include the Minerva Foundation Prize and the Koestler Prize.
UCL neuroscientist and founding father of the study of Neuroesthetics, Semir Zeki is the author of Inner Vision and Splendours of the Brain. His awards include the Minerva Foundation Prize and the Koestler Prize.
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The Dance of Life
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In Search Of Ourselves
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Brave New Horizon
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The Limits of Reason
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Knowing Others and Knowing Oneself
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The Immortal Now
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The Limits of Freedom
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The Secrets of Consciousness
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Matter and Mind
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Hearts and Minds
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The Story of I
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Emperor's New Genes
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The Chemistry of Freedom
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Mind and the Universe
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Fate, Freedom, and Neuroscience
The science of free will
Truth, Lies and Self-Deception
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Secrets of the Mind
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The Mind's Eye
Consciousness and the soul
The Extended Mind
Is consciousness confined to the body?
Owning Ourselves
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Being Conscious
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Biologist Brooke Magnati reveals the secrets of decay
On Having a Mind, Having a Body, and Being a Person
The Evolution of Desire
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Defeating Aging
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The New Bodies
Transhumanism: Rise of the Cyborgs
The Fragility of the Human Personality
Orgasmatron
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After Darwin
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The Illusion of Race
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Dangerous Convictions
Frank Furedi | Could we live without certainty?
Actual Consciousness
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After Evolution
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Stories of Desire
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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
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The Evolution of Consciousness
The transformative ideas of Owen Barfield
Overcoming death
Does fearing death prevent us from fully living?
The Edge of Reason
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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
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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
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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
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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?
After Darwin
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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 pursuit of happiness
An Interview with David Pearce
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
