{"podcast":{"title":"sleepyphilosophyradio","slug":"sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911","podcast_index_feed_id":7603911,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10aead048/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.sleepyphilosophyradio.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44681282/44681282-1777026987033-e668d2591b5ee.jpg","author":"slphilosophy","episode_count":54,"summary":"Long-form philosophy content for late-night listening and deep focus. We cover the big thinkers - from the Stoics and Aristotle to Camus, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky - explained in a calm, steady voice that keeps things interesting without being overstimulating. If you want something substantial to think about during quiet hours, or just appreciate philosophy delivered at a relaxed pace, this is for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T20:17:58.150479+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911"},"episode":{"title":"The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Complete Philosophy","slug":"the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-complete-philosophy","published_at":"2026-03-28T05:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-complete-philosophy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sleepyphilo/episodes/The-Hard-Problem-of-Consciousness--Complete-Philosophy-e3h3bdj","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10aead048/podcast/play/117599091/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-28%2F420930988-44100-2-c8221203274f7.m4a","summary":"Vote on what comes next: https://www.slphilosophyradio.com/vote Something is happening right now that no science can fully explain. Fall asleep to a complete exploration of the hardest unsolved question in philosophy and science. There is a felt quality to seeing color, hearing sound, and simply existing. This is the problem of consciousness, and it remains one of the deepest unsolved questions in all of human thought. This episode traces the mystery from Descartes and Leibniz through Thomas Nagel and David Chalmers, who gave it its modern name: the hard problem. We examine materialism, panpsychism, integrated information theory, and whether artificial intelligence could ever truly be conscious. (0:00:00) What Is It Like to Be Alive (0:22:01) The Ancient Puzzle and the Modern Explosion (0:38:31) Thomas Nagel and the Bat (0:55:03) David Chalmers and the Hard Problem (1:11:07) The Easy Problems and Why They Matter (1:28:42) Materialism and the Denial of Mystery (1:44:26) Panpsychism, Consciousness All the Way Down (2:01:02) Integrated Information Theory (2:17:40) Is Artificial Intelligence Conscious (2:34:36) Why Consciousness Is the Most Important Question Suggested Reading: The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers: https://amzn.to/4cz2CB4 Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett: https://amzn.to/4ukixtm Galileo’s Error by Philip Goff: https://amzn.to/4ugzFAa Conscious by Annaka Harris: https://amzn.to/4rhswgk The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch: https://amzn.to/3OR6WBO The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio: https://amzn.to/4ratNFH The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose: https://amzn.to/4leObnG Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore: https://amzn.to/40jib8x These are affiliate links. Purchasing through them helps support the show at no extra co…","meta_description":"Vote on what comes next: https://www.slphilosophyradio.com/vote Something is happening right now that no science can fully explain. Fall asleep to a compl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9859,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/episodes/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-complete-philosophy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sleepyphilosophyradio-7603911/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-complete-philosophy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}