The Michael Shermer Show Podcast Transcripts
Michael Shermer · 644 episodes with transcripts
The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.
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Why Consciousness Needs a Body
October 17, 2026
Michael Shermer (0:00)
What is consciousness? How does this differ from, I don't know, sentience or something like that? And what's the hard problem?
Antonio Damasio (0:06)
Consciousness is really this possibility we have of knowing of our own existence and realizing that there is a world where others exist as well. But the key is really the discovery of our own existence. That's the central definition of consciousness. When you talk about emotion and feeling, you're not really talking…
Michael Shermer (1:22)
Hey, everybody. I'm talking to Antonio Damasio. Here's Michael Shermer. It's time for another episode of The Michael Shermer Show with our returning champion, Antonio Damasio, the legendary neuroscientist from USC. But let me give him a proper introduction here. He's the David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience…
He's the author of numerous popular and best-selling books on neuroscience, including, I think I've read most of these, Descartes' Error, Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, The Feeling of What Happens, Body and Emotion and Making of Consciousness, Feeling and Knowing, Making Minds Conscious, The Strange Order of…
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