The dawn of consciousness | Iain McGilchrist, Donald Hoffman, Eva Jablonka, Michelle Montague

Iain McGilchrist, Donald Hoffman, Eva Jablonka, Michelle Montague debate whether consciousness is part of evolution. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, founder of Closer to Truth, hosts.

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00:00 How does consciousness evolve?
00:38 Eva Jablonka: The scientific perspective
01:47 Iain McGilchrist: Panpsychism and evolution of consciousness
02:55 Donald Hoffman: Consciousness is fundamental
04:42 Will we ever provide an explanation of consciousness?
05:37 Michelle Montague: The limitations of science
06:22 Iain McGilchrist: Love and consciousness
09:20 Donald Hoffman: Spacetime is flawed
10:20 Eva Jablonka: Neuroscience and consciousness

Steven Pinker and Sam Harris have argued "the emergence of consciousness is simply incomprehensible". While recent neuroscientists have concluded "there is no convincing function to be found for consciousness". But if so, why are we conscious? Is consciousness an accurate description of what's happening to us, a sort of internal dashboard of the current state of affairs? Or is it a construction made to achieve certain outcomes?

Has evolution got something seriously wrong if consciousness is a mere by-product of being human? Do we need a new account of consciousness and how it fits into our model of the universe? Is it possible that consciousness itself is leading us astray?

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Famed cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, celebrated psychiatrist and former literary scholar Iain McGilchrist, trailblaizing evolutionary theorist and geneticist Eva Jablonka and pioneering philosopher of consciousness Michelle Montague lock horns over whether consciousness evolved. Robert Lawrence Kuhn hosts.

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