Best-selling author of Being You, superstar neuroscientist Anil Seth in discussion on selfhood, the fundamentals of consciousness and why we should be optimistic about the future of the science.

Episode 22 Self in Mind

In the first episode of the new series of Enter the Psychosphere, Melanie talks with award-winning writer and scientist, Gaia Vince, on her book Transcendence and the cultural and cognitive shifts that have made us as transformative as we are.

Series 2, Episode 20: Transcendent minds

Neurologist Todd Feinberg guides us through his theories on the origins of consciousness and what we know about the basis of selfhood.

Demystifying consciousness

Science writer, Brandon Keim joins Melanie for a discussion of animal personhood and how meeting animals as persons might alter how we behave towards them.

Animal Personhood

Pioneering neurobiologist Randolf Menzel and I discuss the minds of honeybees and their abilities to dance symbolically and even to dream.

Minds in Miniature

Philosopher David Livingstone Smith joins a discussion on dehumanization, racism, and what we can all do to resist the urge to see one another as less than human.

Minds in the Dark

World-renowned researcher into the behavioural ecology of fishes, Culum Brown, speaks to Melanie about the frontiers of fish intelligence and how we should rethink the lives of one of the most numerous organisms on Earth.

Something Fishy

Harvard Professor of Astronomy Avi Loeb discusses his book Extraterrestrial, the biases and prejudices that can make science resistant to earth-shattering new ideas, and the possibility of advanced alien intelligences.

Out of this World

Renowned neuroscientist and specialist on the minds of dolphins and whales, Lori Marino, speaks to Melanie about her work as a scientist-advocate, and what we can know about the intelligence and psychology of cetaceans.

A Whale of a Mind

Neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell, author of the book Innate, talks us through the development of our minds and what we can understand of how living entities come to see value and meaning from simple goals.

Origins of Purpose

Welcome to Enter the Psychosphere: A Kinds of Minds podcast. Dive into the weird and wonderful world of diverse intelligences that exist on our planet...

Exeter University professor of animal cognition, Dr Alex Thornton chats with me about the minds of meerkats and jackdaws.

More than Meer Mind

Psychologist Charles Fernyhough discusses his research on the phenomenon of "hearing voices", and what the studies can tell us about minds and neurodiversity.

Hearing Voices

Best-selling author of the book Kindred, archaeologist Rebecca Wragg-Sykes chats with Melanie about the intelligence of Neanderthals and what their skill with technology might reveal about their kind of mind.

Neanderthal neurons

Renowned professor of comparative cognition, Nicola Clayton, discusses episodic memory in crows, jays, magpies, and cuttlefish.

Something to Crow About

A fascinating conversation with Carl Safina on the intelligence and culture of other animals, and how we should think about the rest of the living world.

Beyond Words

Best-selling author of The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery talks with Melanie about animal minds and the special species she's connected with over the years.

Creaturely Connections

A discussion of the biological origins of empathy and the cognition of primates with world renowned primatologist Frans de Waal.

Primate smarts

A conversation with science writer Philip Ball on the myths of mind that have affected us and how to think about minds in new and revolutionary ways.

Mind Myths

Diver and philosopher, Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Other Minds and Metazoa, among other works, discusses the origins of consciousness deep under the sea...

Out of the Blue

A provocative discussion with renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett and Professor Michael Levin on their ground-breaking work thinking about agency at the level of the cell and what we can learn about minds from bioelectrics.

Cognition all the way down

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