Consciousness
Subject in Philosophy
Consciousness has come up in 16 episodes across 6 podcasts in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience, Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, Ctrl-Alt-Reset. 12 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Carlo RovelliItalian theoretical physicist specializing in quantum gravity and author of popular science books
Rovelli argues physics is overrated because knowing fundamental laws is like knowing chess rules without knowing how to play.
“You're asking this question to me as a scientist, a physicist, I think the physics is badly overrated”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2554 - Carlo Rovelli (Sep 15, 2026) · Listen from 1:31:35
Rovelli holds that 'consciousness' is essentially the modern term for what people formerly called the soul.
“I think it just means what people meant by soul in the past”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2554 - Carlo Rovelli (Sep 15, 2026) · Listen from 35:21
Martin PicardProfessor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University who leads the mitochondrial psychobiology lab
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
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
JaimeCo-host who connected Beth with the show and reports a near-death experience
Jaime believes inactive 'junk DNA' could, once activated, give humans psychic and telepathic abilities.
“there's a lot of junk DNA that humans don't currently have activated”
Ctrl-Alt-Reset: Episode 2: Aliens - What If We're Not Alone? (May 3, 2025) · Listen from 1:04:49
Jaime holds that a main reason souls incarnate on Earth is to experience the duality of dark and light.
“One of the main reasons for coming to Earth is to experience the duality”
Ctrl-Alt-Reset: Episode 2: Aliens - What If We're Not Alone? (May 3, 2025) · Listen from 39:25
Sean WebbAuthor of the Mind Hacking Happiness series and NHI Connected Mind, emotional intelligence and AI algorithm developer
Webb claims that because he has no math or psychology training, the AI algorithms he developed must have come from outside his own mind.
“So I know that whatever it is that's coming into me, from wherever it's coming from, is not coming from my mind itself”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: He Called Out to Nonhuman Intelligence at Lake Hartwell. Three Minutes Later, Navy SEALs Watched Two Objects Perform a Maneuver No Terrestrial Craft Could Make | Sean Webb (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 8:12
Rupert SpiraBritish teacher of nonduality and contemporary spirituality, author of the direct path approach
Spira holds that consciousness does not evolve, though the mind does, comparing it to an unchanging screen.
“The content of the movie evolves, but the screen doesn't. It's the same. Consciousness doesn't evolve”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: Part Two: You Have Never Seen Reality: Discover Who You Actually Are in Only Two Minutes | Rupert Spira (Sep 30, 2026) · Listen from 47:03
Martine RothblattEntrepreneur and futurist mentioned by an audience member
Rothblatt believes AI is already conscious and that consciousness is a continuum rather than binary.
“my own opinion is that we are there now, that consciousness is not like a digital either-or thing. It's a continuum”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030 (Sep 15, 2026) · Listen from 30:43
Danny GolerIndependent researcher and founder of the nonprofit Code of Reality, known for the DMT laser experiment
Goler argues consciousness is the one thing that cannot be an illusion and is fundamental.
“It's the one thing that can't possibly be an illusion”
The Shawn Ryan Show: #320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May Have Captured Something We CAN'T Explain (Jul 9, 2026) · Listen from 2:15:43
Joe RoganAmerican comedian and host of The Joe Rogan Experience
Rogan argues that people cling to ideologies out of fear of the vastness of existence.
“I think part of that is just being afraid of the vastness of what this experience really is. And the way to shield yourself from it is to pretend to be sure”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2515 - Chase Hughes (Jun 17, 2026) · Listen from 15:48
Dean RadinParapsychology researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences who advised Mossbridge early in her career
Radin claims nearly all founders of quantum mechanics were idealists who held that everything is ultimately consciousness.
“It turns out that almost all of the founders of quantum mechanics were idealists”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2513 - Dean Radin (Jun 11, 2026) · Listen from 1:37:25
Julia MossbridgeAmerican cognitive neuroscientist, author, and founder of Applied Love Labs who studies precognition and telepathy
Mossbridge proposes that an informational substrate underlies space, time, matter, and energy, and that a soul may be what reads from and writes to it.
“underneath all of what we call physical reality, so space, time, matter, energy, is this informational substrate”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2496 - Julia Mossbridge (May 8, 2026) · Listen from 1:39:22
Jensen HuangNvidia CEO who described GPUs as fungible, durable revenue-generating assets
Huang believes AI will recognize emotions like nervousness but that his chips will not feel them.
“I believe that AI will be able to recognize those and understand those. I don't think my chips will feel those”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution (Mar 23, 2026) · Listen from 2:17:33
BethArizona-based oncology and hospice nurse, Reiki master teacher and channeler
Beth says her experiences removed her fear of death and freed her from religious dogma, letting her identify as a soul rather than only as a nurse in Phoenix.
“I'm not just Beth, a nurse in Phoenix. I am a soul entity that has lived a thousand lives and it makes my life just more fulfilling”
Ctrl-Alt-Reset: Channeling with Beth (May 21, 2025) · Listen from 1:00:59
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- The Joe Rogan Experience · 5 episodes
- Mayim Bialik's Breakdown · 4 episodes
- Ctrl-Alt-Reset · 4 episodes
- Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · 1 episode
- The Shawn Ryan Show · 1 episode
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
Part Two: He Called Out to Nonhuman Intelligence at Lake Hartwell. Three Minutes Later, Navy SEALs Watched Two Objects Perform a Maneuver No Terrestrial Craft Could Make | Sean WebbMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 7, 2026 · 52 min
Sean Webb tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen about receiving information from nonhuman intelligence, AI emotions and alignment, and Jesus and quantum mechanics.
CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. MayMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 2, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Physicist Edwin C. May tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen about the U.S. government's Star Gate remote viewing program, precognition research, and his materialist worldview.
Part Two: You Have Never Seen Reality: Discover Who You Actually Are in Only Two Minutes | Rupert SpiraMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Sep 30, 2026 · 51 min
Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen continue their conversation with nonduality teacher Rupert Spira on enlightenment, consciousness, synchronicity, relationships, death, and the soul.
#2554 - Carlo RovelliThe Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 15, 2026 · 2 h 38 min
Physicist Carlo Rovelli and Joe Rogan discuss relational quantum mechanics, time, consciousness, AI, nuclear risk, black holes, aliens, wildlife and the origins of war.
Martine Rothblatt: Growing Unlimited Organs, AI Consciousness, & Digital Personhood by 2030Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 15, 2026 · 50 min
Peter Diamandis talks with Martine Rothblatt about thymus regeneration, xenotransplanted organs, longevity escape velocity, AI consciousness, digital personhood, Gerard O'Neill and entrepreneurial advice.
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.
#320 Danny Goler - Apple Vision Pro May Have Captured Something We CAN'T ExplainThe Shawn Ryan Show · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 h 42 min
Shawn Ryan interviews researcher Danny Goler about his DMT laser 'code' experiment, simulation theory, entities encountered on DMT, consciousness, and Buddhist no-self practice.
#2515 - Chase HughesThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 17, 2026 · 2 h 38 min
Joe Rogan and behavioral profiler Chase Hughes discuss intravenous DMT, the UFC White House event, psychedelic therapy, memory editing, methylene blue, psyops, COVID-era media and elicitation tactics.
#2513 - Dean RadinThe Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 11, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
Parapsychologist Dean Radin tells Joe Rogan about his career from Bell Labs and the Stargate program to psi genetics, spoon bending, consciousness and a nasal RNA dementia therapy.
#2506 - Michelle ThallerThe Joe Rogan Experience · May 28, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
Joe Rogan and astrophysicist Michelle Thaller discuss black holes, relativity, quantum entanglement, the Big Bang, NASA missions, AI, consciousness and psychedelics.