Mind-Craft: Natural Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Join your hosts Drs Elizabeth Schier and Glenn Carruthers in conversation about new research and foundational texts in the natural philosophy and cognitive science of consciousness

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From our discussion of Carls-Diamante's work on octopus consciousness.

https://youtu.be/AYpyI2jrIIM

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qTH35dyxc2WOZ5VaEcA8z

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From our discussion of Carls-Diamante's work on octopus consciousness.

https://youtu.be/AYpyI2jrIIM

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qTH35dyxc2WOZ5VaEcA8z #ideas

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From our discussion of Carls-Diamante's work on octopus consciousness.

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From our discussion of Carls-Diamante's work on octopus consciousness. https://youtu.be/AYpyI2jrIIM https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qTH35dyxc2WOZ5VaEcA8z

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Mind-Craft New Consciousness Research e6: Carls-Diamante On Octopuses and Disunified Consciousness

Join Drs Elizabeth (Liz) Schier (philosophy) and Glenn Carruthers (cognitive science) as we go through Carls-Diamante's recent paper "On the Multiplicty of Consciousness" ⁠Carls-Diamante, S. (2025). On the multiplicity of consciousness. Philosophical Psychology, 38(8), 3548–3571. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2374018⁠ #ideas #podcast #octopus #consciousness #mind #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #cognitivescience #neuroscience #biology #science https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09515089.2024.2374018

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Join Drs Elizabeth (Liz) Schier (philosophy) and Glenn Carruthers (cognitive science) as we introduce Baars' theatre metaphor for consciousness, using his paper "In the Theatre of Consciousness: Global Workspace Theory, A RigorousScientific Theory of Consciousness.” Here is the story we mention as an example: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-will-teach-you-how-to-read-we-will-teach-you-how-to-read/

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Mind-Craft New Consciousness Research e5 Lopez & Wiese Building blocks for theories of consciousness

Join Drs Elizabeth (Liz) Schier (philosophy) and Glenn Carruthers (cognitive science) in discussion of Lopez and Wiese's 2025 paper "Building blocks for theories of consciousness" published in Consciousness and Cognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810025001126 Look we struggled more than usual with this one, but we wouldn't talk about it if we didn't think it was valuable, and we've tried to talk about some potential future work that we think would make it more convincing.

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It's not just letters and numbers, a newer visual working memory study

A quick summary of Landman et al.'s visual work memory experiments, which some have also been used to suggest phenomenology does indeed overflow access From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk

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Well it's in there somewhere, Sperling's visual experiments

A quick summary of Sperling's visual work memory experiments, which some have used to suggest phenomenology does indeed overflow access From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk

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Well it's in there somewhere, Sperling's visual experiments

A quick summary of Sperling's visual work memory experiments, which some have used to suggest phenomenology does indeed overflow access From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk

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Do you seem to hear it all along? Really, are you sure? From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk

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Clock chimes and air conditioners: when phenomenology seems to overflow access

Do you seem to hear it all along? From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk

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Clock chimes and air conditioners: when phenomenology seems to overflow access

Do you seem to hear it all along? From our discussion of the access vs. phenomenology distinction, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/88Z7V95HvEk

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Join Drs Elizabeth (Liz) Schier (philosophy) and Glenn Carruthers (cognitive science) as we introduce a distinction between different concepts of consciousness. We discuss the distinction between cognitive access/access consciousness and phenomenology/phenomenal consciousness. Watch us get confused by how "awareness" is meant to fit into this, and see how its less confusing to draw these distinctions with real world data. This is a discussion of Block, N. (2002). Some concepts of consciousness. in Chalmers ed. Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 206–219. and Block, N. (2007). Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(5–6), 481–499.

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Liz and Glenn being confused about why anyone would think olfactionis non spatial

From our discussion of Barwich's recent paper "Olfaction is a Spatial Sense" published in the Review of Psychology and Philosophy, where we get confused by the people Barwich is arguing against. The full discussion is here: https://youtu.be/a72Kbt6pw0c

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Some discussion of detectable differences in colour experiences, and what this tells us about quality spaces as a description of consciousness. From our introduction to Clark's quality spaces which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/-c1zZH8DwIM

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Theiving birds learn to protect their own food by stealing from others. From our discussion of Veit et al's "Dimensions of Corvid Consciousness" which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/6svMYK6uehA