Latest video · Episode 10
The Neuroscience of Consciousness
Ten episodes in, Justin Harnish and Nick Baguley have circled consciousness from every outside angle — the alignment problem framed as a moral problem, machine ethics, what it means to relate to a thing that talks back. This week they meet it head-on. Neuroscientist Dr. James Bigelow, who spent his PhD watching short-term memory unfold in macaque brains, joins to ask whether the spark that lights up the inside of your skull can ever, even in principle, be measured from the outside — or whether the inside is all there is, and the rest of us are simply taking each other's word for it.