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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Jan 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 2 of 3,584, 0 of 3,862, 3 of 4,115, 3 of 4,226, 1 of 4,731, 1 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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18
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Where they standLast discussed
7mo ago
Apr 1, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp9 people
67%
33%
- Reject reductive materialism6 people · 67%
- Emphasize embodied cognition3 people · 33%
Reject reductive materialism
Consciousness and mind are not merely products of physical brain processes or reductive materialist explanations.
6 people · 6 episodes
The mind-body problem is essentially a philosophical problem that requires an expansive conception of science rather than just materialist hard science.
“I would argue that actually what we have at root here is is a philosophical rather than a purely scientific problem and I think until we confront that the philosophical underpinnings of the problem we're not really going to make progress towards a solution”
The Rich Roll Podcast · Mar 2023 · 1 episode · 25K views on this topic
The current reductive materialist ideology is an optional, restrictive vision of the world that is not compelled by science or reason.
“this reductive materialist ideology which is absolutely not uh compelled on us as people seem to think by science or by reason”
Jordan B Peterson · Aug 2022 · 3 episodes · 1.7M views on this topic
The mind is not a product of the physical brain alone but is an pattern from an abstract Platonic space that manifests through a physical interface.
“Nobody's creating consciousness. What you create is a physical interface through which specific patterns, which we call kinds of minds, are going to ingress, right? And consciousness is what it looks like from that direction looking out into the world.”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 985K views on this topicEmphasize embodied cognition
Mind and intelligence depend essentially on physical embodiment, environmental interaction, and biological context.
3 people · 3 episodes
MC
Mazviita ChirimuutaUnrated
Human knowledge is intrinsically limited by our nature as finite beings, and it is a mistake to believe we can achieve a god's-eye view of reality by transcending embodiment.
“And my point is that we're not those kinds of beings. We only acquire knowledge through this arduous process of interaction which means that we cannot claim to have that god's eye neutral view on things but that it would be it's a mistake about knowledge and about ourselves as knowers to think that ”
Machine Learning Street Talk · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 20K views on this topicJB
Jeff BeckUnrated
A computer simulation of a brain is not an agent unless it is physically embodied in a body and interacting with the world.
“So, yeah, let's say highfidelity computer simulation of Jeff. Would would would Jeff be an agent? >> No. Oh, wasn't expecting you to say that >> because I'm the agent and if you uh uploaded No, I don't know. Um, so if you is do a highfidelity computer simulation and you put it in my body, then I thi”
Machine Learning Street Talk · Jan 2026 · 1 episode · 12K views on this topicAP
The mind is not limited to the brain inside the skull but extends into the body, physical surroundings, and social relationships.
“Clark and Chalmers were arguing that no, actually the mind extends beyond the skull into the movements and sensations of our bodies, into, uh, our physical surroundings where we think and learn and work into our relationships with other people and into our tools and devices.”
10% Happier · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 3K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Aug 2019