Is Consciousness Everywhere? With Anil Seth

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Are we on the brink of merging with machines? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly dive into the mysteries of consciousness versus intelligence, panpsychism, and AI with neuroscientist and author Anil Seth.

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0:00.0	The other possibility is in fact you're overestimating the extent to which you remain you from day to day.
0:07.0	Oh, you're not you, Neil!
0:10.0	You're not you, man!
0:12.0	I need further explanation on that sentence.
0:17.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:19.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:25.1	StarTalk begins right now.
0:29.9	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:33.9	And when you hear that, you know my two co-hosts are Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:39.1	Nice, Neil.
0:40.0	Good to be back.
0:41.2	Former soccer pro, sports commentator, sporting a new part in his head.
0:47.9	Yeah, like a neural chip, yeah.
0:52.2	That's a surgical scar for what they installed in your brain.
0:55.2	They were looking for something and it was a complete waste of time.
0:57.7	I got you.
0:58.4	And of course, got Chuck Nice, comedian, actor, long-time StarTalk co-host.
1:03.4	Absolutely.
1:04.6	Always good to have you.
1:05.5	And Gary, you cook up these topics.
1:08.2	Well, we have a little group sync between the producers and the production team and we
1:13.6	land on a whole load of different varieties.
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