What Martin Picard has said about Consciousness
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 12, 2026
Martin Picard, Professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University who leads the mitochondrial psychobiology lab, has been quoted on Consciousness 2 times in 1 episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, most recently on September 12, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Picard argues that biomedicine's materialist assumption that we are molecular machines is so pervasive that scientists are unaware of it.
“We've deluded ourselves over the last 100 years or so that we are molecular machines. And this is what biomedical science is based on. And this is so pervasive that it's like the water for fish”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 4:36
Picard argues that infusing energy into even a simple system produces spontaneous self-organization, and that in a complex system this may feel like consciousness.
“You just flow a bit of energy and then it feels like something. Consciousness”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena Podcast (Sep 12, 2026) · Listen from 47:44
Episodes
Re-Air: What is Energy? And Can Energy Therapy Heal?| Phenomena PodcastMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 12, 2026 · 1 h 18 min
A re-aired Phenomena episode in which Ivy Ross, Martin Picard, Richard Hammerschlag, Neil Theise, Meredith Sprengel and Jonathan Cohen ask what energy is in healing.
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