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Chasing Consciousness

by Freddy Drabble
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  • ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Tam Hunt #94

    October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Do EM fields across and around the body and brain correspond to and contain information about our experience of consciousness? Can resonance help explain how larger and smaller systems with consciousness can harmonise into a single field…

  • NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES & ACCESSING DEAD PEOPLE'S MEMORIES - Marieta Pehilvanova PhD #93

    September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    How can we explain vivid, life changing experiences and true perceptions occurring in patients between brain death and resuscitation? What are the implications of true information being anomalously communicated during these experiences?…

  • HOW METRICS CAPTURE HUMAN VALUES - C. Thi Nguyen #92

    September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min

    How have metrics surreptitiously replaced our internal value guidance system? How much nuance is lost when we scale collective counting across contexts? How dangerous is data that at first appears independent, whist in fact having heavy…

  • FUNGI & SYMBIOSOS IN LIFE - Merlin Sheldrake PhD #91

    August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    Why were fungi so important to the evolution of life on earth? How do they collaborate with plants to help them communicate? What does the difficulty separating individual fungi from the collective of a mycelial network teach us about…

  • A NEW NUTRITION PARADIGM - Dr. Federica Amati PhD #90

    July 14, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    How has new research changed the way we see nutritional health? What role do ultra-processed foods, fibre, gut microbes, inflammation and insulin resistance play in the new paradigm? Why does the gut microbiome affect our mental health?…

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  • EXTENDED COGNITION & PARTICIPATORY SENSE-MAKING - Rebecca Todd PhD #89

    June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

    How separate is the cognition in our heads from cognition with our bodies, our tools, our communities and our ecosystems? What is participatory sense making and why is our world becoming less and less disposed to doing it? What does…

  • SPACE PSYCHOLOGY EXPLAINED - Iya Whiteley PhD #88

    June 15, 2026 · 3 hr 4 min

    What can psychologists do the make pilots and astronauts’ decision making better under duress? Can we anticipate the psychological issues of planned long distance space missions to Mars? How can we shift the  shame culture for pilots and…

  • REIMAGINING OUR POST-COLONIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Bayo Akomolafe PhD #87

    May 31, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    How has colonialism shaped our western psychology? How can we reimagine our post-colonial psychology, before we wipe ourselves out? What is the role of the trickster archetype in the disruption of such a well-established and dominant world…

  • THE TEEN BRAIN EXPLAINED - Jennifer Pfeifer #86

    May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    Are our preconceptions about teen behaviour true? What can we learn from the psychology and neuroscience of teen development to help support them rather than blame them? Are mobile phones and social media responsible for the jump in youth…

  • THE NEUROSCIENCE OF DMT - Andrew Gallimore PhD

    April 30, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min

    How are DMT experiences neurologically different to hallucinations? How does DMT alter the world modelling of our brains? What evidence is there that the brain is receiving information on DMT rather than modelling it? In this episode we…

  • THE QUEST FOR CONSCIOUSNESS - Christof Koch PhD #84

    December 1, 2025 · 1 hr 34 min

    What are the best competing theories of consciousness? Can we isolate where it arises and measure how complex it is? How do 5meo DMT mystical or non-separation experiences shift worldviews on consciousness? In this episode we have the very…

  • HIGH-DOSE INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C TRIALS - Dr. Richard Z. Cheng PhD #83

    November 15, 2025 · 1 hr 22 min

    Do the many clinical trials into high-dose vitamin C prove it can actually treat the common cold and cancer, rather than just boost the immune system? Why is there ongoing scepticism? Why are multifactorial chronic diseases so hard to…

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About the show

The curious person’s guide to all things mind! Have you ever wondered how it is that your thoughts and feelings relate to the grey matter in your head? How space and time came to be out of nothing? How what life means to us influences our day-to-day struggles with mental health? In conversation with experts in physics, psychology, neuroscience and philosophy, Chasing Consciousness will take you to the very fringes of reality and share with you the groundbreaking discoveries that are dramatically changing the way we relate to the world, the future, and our own minds.