This week, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Uriah Kriegel. Dr. Kriegel is a research director at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris, where he heads the “Consciousness & Self” team. He works mostly in philosophy of mind and metaphysics, but is also interested in cognitive science, metaethics, epistemology, early analytic philosophy, and a number of other research areas. He received his PhD from Brown University in 2003, whereupon he started teaching at the wonderful philosophy department at the University of Arizona, where he was tenured in 2010. He moved to Nicod in 2012.
It was a fascinating conversation, where we touched on topics from the Awareness Principle to eating one’s brain to learn what chocolate tastes like (hint: you can’t do that) to Arizona’s connection with Asthma to being ‘nobody’s dog!’
Go buy Uriah’s books on Amazon:
Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory
The Varieties of Consciousness (Philosophy of Mind)
The Sources of Intentionality
And many more!
Some topics covered:
- Manifest image of the world versus the scientific image of the world
- One can’t eat your brain as you eat chocolate and know what chocolate tastes like
- Does consciousness fit into the scientific world?
- The Awareness Principle: can we be wrong about our awareness of our awareness?
- The Scientific Theory of Everything and Reflexive Awareness
- Are dreams an exception to the Awareness Principle?
- Memories aren’t an essential part of consciousness.
- Meditation, dreaming and allocating your awareness resources
- Is all consciousness intentional? What the heck does that mean, anyway?
- The near-perfect correlation between the physical brain and consciousness
- Does Arizona cause Asthma?
- Morality, Consciousness and Free Will offer similar challenges — will the Humanities help us find our reason for being, our purpose in life?
- Undiscovered building blocks of consciousness
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