{"id":233836,"date":"2026-03-22T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/is-consciousness-an-illusion-5-experts-explain"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:04:13","slug":"is-consciousness-an-illusion-5-experts-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/is-consciousness-an-illusion-5-experts-explain","title":{"rendered":"Is consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjmPvovl-V4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_<\/a>\u2026 \u201cIf science aims to describe everything, how can it not describe the simple fact of our existence?\u201d On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele speaks with the scientists, mathematicians, and spiritual leaders trying to do just that:<\/p>\n<p>This video is an episode from \u202a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The\">@The<\/a>-Well\u202c, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the \u202a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnTempletonFoundation\">@JohnTempletonFoundation<\/a>\u202c<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full podcast now \u25ba \u2022 Dispatches from The Well.<\/p>\n<p>In the newest episode of Dispatches from The Well, we\u2019re diving deep into the \u201chard problem of consciousness.\u201d Here, Kmele combines the perspectives of five different scientists, philosophers, and spiritual leaders to approach one of humanity\u2019s most pressing questions: what is consciousness?<\/p>\n<p>In the AI age, the question of consciousness is more prevalent than ever. Is every single thing in the universe self-aware? What does it actually mean to be conscious? Are our bodies really just a vessel for our thoughts? Kmele asks these questions, and many more, in the most thought-provoking episode yet. This is Dispatches from The Well.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring: sir roger penrose, christof koch, melanie mitchell, reid hoffman, swami sarvapriyananda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/is-consciousness-an-illusion-5-experts-explain\">Continue reading \u201cIs consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\u2026 \u201cIf science aims to describe everything, how can it not describe the simple fact of our existence?\u201d On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele speaks with the scientists, mathematicians, and spiritual leaders trying to do just that: This video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}