Even the biggest NPC you know can still feel happiness, sadness, pain, disgust, and love. But why?

Why have we evolved to feel things, rather than just process information and compute responses? Why is it that no matter how much you could learn about neurobiology, you could never deduce what it feels like to see the colour blue? What is a mind anyway? What is it made of? How does it relate to the body? Is there more to the universe than just energy and matter? And who- or what- has consciousness anyway? Does consciousness pervade the entire universe?

We explore all these questions and more from multiple perspectives. Here, we examine all the various philosophical and scientific perspectives on consciousness, giving you all the positions you need to know to help you understand the debate properly.

This episode will explore philosophy, life, neurobiology, and the universe: all within the framework of real experts and scholars. As always in Polymath, we delve into this complex debate giving you just the facts and just the scholarship: nothing else.

And it's all in just 20 minutes! More episodes on consciousness will potentially come out on this channel in the future, exploring some key concepts and neuroscience further. Until then, enjoy!