The Blind Spot (Again!) - a discussion with Evan Thompson

(Yogi)

 As part of our outreach program, we organize a series of public online discussion sessions with philosophers, biologists, and other researchers who do work that is relevant to our own project. The format is that of a short introductory presentation by our guests, followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session involving the whole audience.

This time, we had an amazingly wide-ranging discussion with Evan Thompson, co-author (with Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser) of "The Blind Spot."

We cover topics such as post-blind-spot science and its wider societal implications, the metaphysics of strange loops, the status and nature of consciousness, and our frustration that not everybody seems to see things our way.