Consciousness

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of consciousness.

Video playlists about Consciousness

How does my brain work?

15 talks • 3h 28m
How exactly does the brain -- a 3-pound snarl of nervous tissue -- create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, the sense of self? Researchers at the edge of science explain ...

What is consciousness?

4 talks • 1h 19m
Fascinating talks that explore one of the most mysterious phenomenons in the universe: the "self" (and why it exists).

Talks about Consciousness

19:10

Guillaume Néry

The exhilarating peace of freediving

Posted Dec 2015
19:26

Carl Safina

What are animals thinking and feeling?

Posted Nov 2015
16:09

Jim Al-Khalili

How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions

Posted Aug 2015
21:50

Donald Hoffman

Do we see reality as it is?

Posted Jun 2015
18:37

David Chalmers

How do you explain consciousness?

Posted Jul 2014
15:24

Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

The long reach of reason

Posted Mar 2014
9:29

Peter Doolittle

How your "working memory" makes sense of the world

Posted Nov 2013
21:46

Russell Foster

Why do we sleep?

Posted Aug 2013
14:59

John Searle

Our shared condition — consciousness

Posted Jul 2013
8:48

John Lloyd

An animated tour of the invisible

Posted Sep 2012
14:26

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain

Posted Sep 2012
12:08

Chris Anderson (TED)

Questions no one knows the answers to

Posted Mar 2012
18:42

Antonio Damasio

The quest to understand consciousness

Posted Dec 2011
19:59

Daniel Wolpert

The real reason for brains

Posted Nov 2011
5:29 Under 6 minutes

Adam Ostrow

After your final status update

Posted Aug 2011
22:17

Simon Lewis

Don't take consciousness for granted

Posted Jul 2011
See all 24 talks on Consciousness

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