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Why AI is unlikely to become conscious
Conscious
TED 2017
In Sight
Wired Tech Support
Vice/Motherboard

A world appears with Michael Pollan

Royal Institution, 2026

Conscious

Suki Chan, 2026

Why AI will never be conscious

Within Reason, with Alex O’Connor, 2026

Gods and Minds

Uncommon Ground, with Iain McGilchrist, 2026

How we live in a collective dream

Essentia, with Hans Busstra, 2026

The dangers of conscious-seeming AI

Futurology, with Nils Gilman, 2025

Cunk on Life

BBC Two, 2024

The history of consciousness

Closer to Truth, with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, 2024

Consciousness in humans and in other things

The 2024 Royal Society Faraday Lecture, 2024

What makes you, you? A conversation with Yara Shahidi

TED Intersections, 2024

Is reality real?

Feel better, live more, with Rangan Chatterjee, 2023

Why conscious AI is a bad, bad idea

Nautilus: Behind the Scenes, 2023

Does consciousness extend beyond brains?

The 2023 Holberg debate. With Rupert Sheldrake and Tanya Luhrmann, 2023

We live in a controlled hallucination

Triggernometry, 2023

The Dreamachine

BBC Click, 2022

Do we all see the world the same way?

BBC Ideas, 2022

The scientific problem of consciousness

Quanta, 2021

The Search

Documentary film by Patrick Payne, 2020

How we build perception from the inside out

In conversation with Nigel Warburton, Aeon Video, 2020 Featured in Aeon’s ‘most popular’ list for 2020

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Documentary film by Ric Burns, 2019
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The Promise of Psychedelics

World Science Festival, New York, 2019

The Most Unknown

Feature documentary by Ian Cheney, Vice/Motherboard, 2018 Watch the trailer

Consciousness & Creation

Animated short by Lazy Chief, created for the Future of StoryTelling Summit (FoST), 2018

Wired Tech Support

I answer neuroscience questions from twitter, live and with strange props, 2018

Our experience of reality

Vice/Motherboard, 2018

Consciousness as a controlled hallucination

Main-stage TED talk, 2017

The Reality of Reality

World Science Festival, New York, 2019

The Story of Now

Documentary TV series with Idris Elba, 2015

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