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Raymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist, and has published over 200 original scientific articles, including papers in Nature, Medicine, Brain, Lancet, and published over 30 books. Some of his works include: Aping Mankind (2010), Of Time and Lamentation. Reflections on Transience (2017; 2019), An Essay on the Mystery of the Sense-Making Animal (2018), Sunburst (2019), Seeing Ourselves. Reclaiming Humanity from God and Science (2020) and Freedom: An Impossible Reality (2021).

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TIMESTAMPS: (0:00) - Introduction (0:40) - Ontological Agnosticism re: the Mind-Body Dichotomy (7:07) - Philosophers who have influenced Raymond (10:00) - Nature of Time (16:43) - Nature of Reality (22:15) - Scientism & Psychiatry (29:17) - Consciousness & Intentionality (39:47) - Determinism, Laplace's demon & Benjamin Libet (47:44) - Compatibilism & Free Will (58:09) - Animal Consciousness (1:04:25) - Artificial Intelligence (1:10:38) - Religion & Humanism (1:16:40) - Extraterrestrial Minds (1:19:07) - Advice for Young Naturalists (1:22:45) - Philosophy/Book Recommendations (1:26:38) - Raymond's Book "Freedom: An Impossible Reality" (1:31:51) - Quantum Consciousness, Panpsychism, Illusionism (1:37:55) - Conclusion Website · YouTube