In this episode, we’re joined by one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Anil Seth, and&nbsp;Advaita Vedanta spiritual leader and scholar, Swami Sarvapriyananda, to explore ideas around consciousness. When we die, does our consciousness die with us, or is our body just a vehicle, at best, for a consciousness that continues?Most mainstream forms of western knowledge are based on an understanding that nothing exists outside of the physical world which follows the fundamental laws of physics. It posits that whatever we seek to understand, we need to do so using the tools of material reality.&nbsp;&nbsp;It seems however, that this largely shared assumption around the nature of reality falls apart for many of us when we think about what happens after death. By far the majority of people living on this planet believe in a consciousness, or a related term like ‘soul’, that exists separate to our material body and can therefore continue after death.&nbsp;This belief is of course the basic building block of pretty much all religions - and all these beliefs share an assumption that there’s a realm of disembodied mind, or spirit, which can continue after our body dies.&nbsp;In philosophy of mind, this belief is called ‘dualism’.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for most hard-nosed scientists and philosophers, there’s something deeply problematic about dualism, of this separating out of conscious experience from the material world. Everything else can be explained using the tools of material reality. Why not consciousness?BIOSAnil Seth is <a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/22981" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience</a> at the University of Sussex, where he is also Director of the <a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-centre-for-consciousness-science/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science</a>. He is also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) <a href="https://www.cifar.ca/research/program/brain-mind-consciousness" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness.</a> 2021 saw the publication of his best selling book, Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.Anil was the founding Editor-in-Chief of <a href="http://nc.oxfordjournals.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Neuroscience of Consciousness</a> (Oxford University Press), a role he served from 2014-2024. Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order and the Minister and spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of New York. He was in the first group of Hindu swamis to participate as a Nagral Fellow for the year 2019-20 at Harvard Divinity School. He is a well-known speaker on Vedanta teachings and his talks are extremely popular worldwide.&nbsp;Your hosts are Lloyd Vogelman and Emile Sherman&nbsp;This podcast is proud to partner with The Ethics CentreFind Lloyd @LloydVogelman on Linked inFind Emile @EmileSherman on Linked In and XThis podcast is produced by Jonah Primo and Sabrina OrganoFind Jonah at jonahprimo.com or @JonahPrimo on Instagram&nbsp;&nbsp;Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information&nbsp;<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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