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Consciousness is everything you’ve ever known, and the only thing you’ll ever know. It is highly unlikely that anyone else will be able to experience exactly what you experience; likewise, you will probably never be able to sample someone else’s mind directly. Because the topic of consciousness is so personal and so complex, and because scientists have confined means to study it, the field has attracted thinkers from many spheres, beyond neuroscience: philosophers, theologians, psychologists, physicists, evolutionary theorists, computer scientists, and others. This channel’s mission is to critically appreciate this wealth of ideas.Learn more about the channel's creator at www.williamgadea.com.
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What Is Mind? with William Gadea is hosted by William Gadea. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Brook Ziporyn on Daoism, Buddhism, and the Birth of Zen" (12 March 2026, 50 minutes), "What Is Modern Druidry? Kevin Pennell on Nature, Ritual, and Story" (12 March 2026, 29 minutes), and "Living With No Self: Jay L. Garfield on Buddhism, Consciousness, and the Illusion of “Me”" (14 January 2026, 49 minutes).
What Is Mind? with William Gadea publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 15 episodes.
Booking probability for What Is Mind? with William Gadea is 24%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. What Is Mind? with William Gadea requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. What Is Mind? with William Gadea's contact route on record: verified email.
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William Gadea hosts What Is Mind? with William Gadea, a religion podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Episode #3
<p>In this episode of What Is Mind?, philosopher and translator Brook Ziporyn joins me to explore Daoism and Buddhism in China, and how their interaction gave rise to Chan (Zen) Buddhism.<br /><br />We discuss the...
Episode #2
<p>What does it mean to practice Druidry in the modern world?<br /><br />In this conversation, I speak with Kevin Pennell about the historical Druids, the 18th-century revival, and what contemporary Druid practice looks...
Episode #1
<p>What if the self you think you are… doesn’t actually exist?</p><p></p><p>In this conversation, philosopher <b>Jay L. Garfield</b> argues that the “self” is a powerful cognitive illusion – and that letting go of it...
Episode #12
<p>Do we really have free will — or is that just an illusion? Are our choices the result of physical and biological processes? </p><p></p><p>In this video, I explore the classic free will debate from a scientific and...
Episode #11
<p>Dr. Andrew Newberg is one of the pioneers of neurotheology – the scientific study of what happens in the brain during prayer, meditation, and mystical experience. In this conversation, we dig into what the brain is...
Episode #10
<p>In this AI-assisted conversation, I speak with 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume — the great skeptic of the Enlightenment and one of the first thinkers to question the idea of a permanent self. We discuss...
Episode #9
<p>Could today’s AIs already be conscious? Before you say no, let’s look at what “consciousness” really means – and why machines may already qualify.</p><p></p><p>In this episode of What is Mind?, William Gadea looks...
Episode #8
<p>In this episode of What Is Mind?, I speak with Dr. Swayam Bagaria, Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies at Harvard Divinity School. Trained as an anthropologist at Johns Hopkins, Bagaria explores how religion...
Episode #7
<p>In this episode, I talk with Dr. Theodore H. Schwartz, neurosurgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine and author of Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery. We discuss what it’s like to operate under extreme pressure, the...
Episode #6
<p>I was named after the neurosurgeon who operated on H.M., history’s most famous amnesiac. In this episode, I trace Henry Molaison’s case, the discoveries it unlocked about memory, and a parallel story from my own...
Episode #5
<p>What if the “Self” you take for granted isn’t what it seems? Neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy suggest that some of our deepest assumptions about who we are might be illusions. In this video, we’ll look at...
Episode #4
<p>Is religion a cultural parasite, a spandrel, an evolutionary adaptation – or evidence of God? In this video, we explore the main scientific and philosophical theories about the origins of religion.</p><p><br...
Episode #3
<p>In this episode, I’m joined by futurist and author Richard Yonck. We talk about his new sci-fi novel Mindstock, and how fiction can help us imagine the future of human and machine minds. We also dive into his earlier...
Episode #2
<p>Is the brain a single, unified system—or a collection of specialized parts working in concert? In this episode, William Gadea explores the case for modularity of mind, from Paul Broca’s 19th-century discovery in a...
Episode #1
<p>This is a solo episode.</p><p></p><p>Philosopher David Chalmers is the leading advocate of modern dualism. He thinks we should face the fact that consciousness is a hard problem. I summarize and take a critical look...
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neuroscientist and author of How God Changes Your Brain and Sex, God, and the Brain, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University
Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, Six Wentworth Selborne Chambers
futurist and author, Intelligent Future Consulting
University Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science, New York University
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