Dr. James Cooke
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My guest this week is Christof Koch. Christof is the neuroscientist who, along with Francis Crick, initiated modern scientific research into the neuroscience of consciousness in the 1990s. Much of this work was done while he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology and he is now president and chief scientist at the Allen Institute for Consciousness. His books include Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist and most recently The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread but Can’t be Computed. Christof also writes the Consciousness Redux column for Scientific American Mind.
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We live in a world filled with suffering, where attempts to help have been split into largely separate scientific and spiritual communities. As a spiritually engaged neuroscientist I hope to communicate how these seemingly separate world views can be reconciled. I produce weekly videos on topics at the intersection of neuroscience and wellbeing, including consciousness, meditation and psychedelic science.
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PhD in Neuroscience, Oxford University
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MA in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
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So the existence of consciousness in the bee can be assumed through the same process that we assume consciousness in organisms similar to us, we can induce it from behaviour, if you hit a bee, it acts as though it is not happy, which infers it must be capable of happiness and therefore unhappiness, but the question this train of thought raises must be 'does the experience of emotion necessitate the presence of consciousness'….intuitively I would say an angry bee knows he is angry.