Consciousness & Cognition Videos Hacker News Recommends

lecture#24

George Lakoff: Moral Politics

University of California Television (UCTV)

“Changed how I listen - to anyone - forever.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

talk#54

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018

The Artificial Intelligence Channel

“I highly recommend this video from Levin. It was my introduction to his work.”

12 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

lecture#259

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

Stanford

“No discussion about concepts, analogy and metaphor is complete with a mention of”

7 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

other#286

The Egg - A Short Story

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

“The Egg is one of my life long favorite histories.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

lecture#386

Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

John Vervaeke’s Lectern

“this series has it all.”

6 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#429

You Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Stranger

CGP Grey

“I recommend watching this video by GPGrey, one of the best educational channels on YouTube”

7 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

interview#446

Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]

withDefiance

“For anyone who hasn't watched the actual, full video of the debate, you should do so.”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

podcast#474

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman

“If watching this isn't worth anyone's time, I'm not sure what would be.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

lecture#839

The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

The Royal Institution

“And The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth is really great”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

interview#877

Feynman: How to think 1 of 2 FUN TO IMAGINE 11

Christopher Sykes

“He does a great job of communicating this, despite our interpretive differences.”

5 HN recommenders · 2011–2024

lecture#1094

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution

“I discovered him with the excellent Royal Institution talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

interview#1348

Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research

Curt Jaimungal

“This podcast will be a shocking experience for anyone who still holds reductionist views on life.”

3 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

documentary#1453

Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

NOVA PBS Official

“Both of these videos are great resources on how much of what you experience of reality is made up or filled in by your brain”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#1539

Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

Dani Dögenigt

“If you want to know where the metaphor of philosophy as an operating system comes from”

1 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

talk#1540

Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn

TED

“This is an argument made by James Flynn in his amazing TED talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#1546

Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

The Royal Institution

“I highly recommend this Royal Institute talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

documentary#1589

Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer

Karol Jałochowski

“This is my favourite interview with him so I will take this post as an excuse to share it.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#1672

My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED

TED

“I highly recommend this video if you want to hear about what life is when the right hemisphere is in control”

2 HN recommenders · 2010–2024

podcast#1689

Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

Lex Fridman

“It really changed my naive perspective of life, and the universe.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

explainer#1723

RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain

Royal Society of Arts

“This entire video is really excellent”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#1729

35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine

media.ccc.de

“the whole talk is incredibly lucid and contains zero fluff or BS”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1799

Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED

TED

“I encourage you to watch Donald Hoffman's 2015 TED Talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

lecture#1946

How did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey

The Royal Institution

“His recent RI lecture was great and a good high level view of the book.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

podcast#2203

Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman

“I don't take Roger's view about consciousness for granted but it is very interesting nevertheless.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

lecture#2218

Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ

Bite-sized Philosophy

“IQ has an amazingly high correlation with academic success and work success”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2227

Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

Joscha Bach

“stuff like talks by Joscha Bach on C3”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

lecture#2234

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)

Qualia Research Institute

“has a good intro in the beginning.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

podcast#2257

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Lex Fridman

“Penrose delivered a very accessible walkthrough of his historical and current thoughts on the topic.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

lecture#2421

Noam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"

Andy80o

“Chomsky's surprisingly insightful thinking on the limits of human knowledge, and the consequences”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

lecture#2471

Free Energy Principle — Karl Friston

Serious Science

“There's a great video introduction to that idea with Karl Friston from UCL here”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

interview#2501

The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber

Non-Dual Couch

“I highly recommend this talk given by a physicist exploring what spirituality does to the brain”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#2536

Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology

media.ccc.de

“Recommend watching this video on Computational Meta-Psychology”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

lecture#2581

Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein

Uppsala universitet

“that I often revisit”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

commentary#2587

I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)

JAMIEvstheVOID

“this video is fantastic for describing the feeling of aphantasia”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

lecture#2682

Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN

The Qualcomm Institute

“for the first time I think a truly compelling idea of what consciousness is in a scientific way that could potentially be empirically measured.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

explainer#2861

The Braitenberg Vehicles

Brian Douglas

“Fascinating thought experiments.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#2952

Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome

TED

“found this TED talk that visualizes the problem pretty well”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2015

explainer#3195

The Future Of Reasoning

Vsauce

“is a fascinating pre-AI-era breakdown of how human reasoning works”

2 HN recommenders · 2024

lecture#3260

Swami Sarvapriyananda at IITK - "Who Am I?" according to Mandukya Upanishad-Part 1

Vivekananda Samiti, IIT Kanpur

“These two lectures were very good”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

explainer#3276

Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Vsauce

“Vsauce did a good video on it”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#3288

The illusion of consciousness | Dan Dennett

TED

“I recommend the TED talk or the Google talk where he highlights this example as a way to gain insight into what consciousness may be.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#3360

Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth | TED

TED

“This TED talk has a great example where the same sound sounds different to you based on what you expect to hear”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

explainer#3372

Why Teleportation Would Kill You

CGP Grey

“CGP Grey has a good look at the question wrt Star Trek teleportation”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

podcast#3394

Michael Levin: Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis & Xenobots | Lex Fridman Podcast #325

Lex Fridman

“here he goes over much of the same amazing material, but along with a visual presentation.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#3420

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

“He explains this in the google video very well”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017

explainer#3506

Was Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain

PBS Space Time

“check especially the ending summary where they calculate more or less how much would be necessary”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

explainer#3525

Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or does it kill free will and destroy science?

Sabine Hossenfelder

“The video does the subject justice much better than I can”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

interview#3706

Q&A with a person who does not have an internal monologue

PA Struggles

“I never miss a chance to reference this video.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025