Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness:
aware-film.com
Show notes
braininspired.co/podcast/168
Patreon for full episodes and Discord community:
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Video Series: Open Questions in AI and Neuroscience:
braininspired.co/open
Apple podcasts:
itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-inspired/id1428880766?mt=2
Spotify:
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Music by: The New Year:
thenewyear.net
This is the first in a mini-series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routines. Might this feature of art potentially change our scientific attitudes and perspectives?
Frauke Sandig and Eric Black recently made the documentary film AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness, which profiles six researchers studying consciousness from different perspectives. The film is filled with rich visual imagery and conveys a sense of wonder and awe in trying to understand subjective experience, while diving deep into the reflections of the scientists and thinkers approaching the topic from their various perspectives.
This isn't a "normal" Brain Inspired episode, but I hope you enjoy the discussion!
0:00 - Intro
19:42 - Mechanistic reductionism
45:33 - Changing views during lifetime
53:49 - Did making the film alter your views?
57:49 - ChatGPT
1:04:20 - Materialist assumption
1:11:00 - Science of consciousness
1:20:49 - Transhumanism
1:32:01 - Integrity
1:36:19 - Aesthetics
1:39:50 - Response to the film
AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness:
aware-film.com
Show notes
braininspired.co/podcast/168
Patreon for full episodes and Discord community:
patreon.com/braininspired
Video Series: Open Questions in AI and Neuroscience:
braininspired.co/open
Apple podcasts:
itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brain-inspired/id1428880766?mt=2
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/2UZj8c8Ap5oc2gh2rJxLLe
Music by: The New Year:
thenewyear.net
This is the first in a mini-series of episodes with Alex Gomez-Marin, exploring how the arts and humanities can impact (neuro)science. Artistic creations, like cinema, have the ability to momentarily lower our ever-critical scientific mindset and allow us to imagine alternate possibilities and experience emotions outside our normal scientific routines. Might this feature of art potentially change our scientific attitudes and perspectives?
Frauke Sandig and Eric Black recently made the documentary film AWARE: Glimpses of Consciousness, which profiles six researchers studying consciousness from different perspectives. The film is filled with rich visual imagery and conveys a sense of wonder and awe in trying to understand subjective experience, while diving deep into the reflections of the scientists and thinkers approaching the topic from their various perspectives.
This isn't a "normal" Brain Inspired episode, but I hope you enjoy the discussion!
0:00 - Intro
19:42 - Mechanistic reductionism
45:33 - Changing views during lifetime
53:49 - Did making the film alter your views?
57:49 - ChatGPT
1:04:20 - Materialist assumption
1:11:00 - Science of consciousness
1:20:49 - Transhumanism
1:32:01 - Integrity
1:36:19 - Aesthetics
1:39:50 - Response to the film
