BS 196 Consciousness with Hakwan Lau
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. Lau talks about shortcomings in current theories about how the brain generates consciousness, but he also introduces something he calls perceptual reality monitoring.
Although this is a somewhat technical discussion it is accessible to listeners who are new to the neuroscience of consciousness.
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- In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience by Hakwan Lau
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| 0:00.0 | I try to propose that reality monitoring is the mechanism by which we get subjective experience. |
| 0:08.0 | So I'm not saying that consciousness is reality monitoring. |
| 0:12.0 | Consciousness still is subjective experience. |
| 0:14.0 | At least my proposal is if you look into the brain the mechanistic process that gives you |
| 0:19.9 | subjective experience turn out to be the circuit for reality monitoring. |
| 0:24.1 | Welcome to brain science, the podcast that explores how recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping unravel |
| 0:35.2 | the mystery of how our brain makes us human. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 196. Today we'll be talking about consciousness, which has |
| 0:46.1 | been one of my favorite topics since I launched brain science back in 2006. I'll be |
| 0:52.0 | talking with Hakwan Lau, who is currently at the Ricans Center for |
| 0:56.3 | Brain Science in Japan. I recently heard Lau interviewed on Brain Inspired, and that led me to read his thought-provoking book |
| 1:04.8 | In Consciousness We Trust The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience. |
| 1:10.3 | If you're a new listener, I recommend focusing on the big picture because this episode is more technical than most. |
| 1:20.0 | Before we jump into this month's interview, I want to remind you that you can get complete show |
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