Max Velmans on the Four Simple Questions Series

Max Velmans, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London meets Catherine Noyce. In their dialogue they broach topics such as emptiness and fullness; trying to belong to a ground of being; the feeling of being disconnected and alienated; making eye contact; loneliness; ego; on being seen; what is being me?; psychological health; childhood,; boundarylessness; we are electric; from a physics perspectives; the fundamental stuff of things; how can we be separate?; iceberg metaphor; experience is rubbish; how reality is fashioned from the senses; the scientific enterprise doesn’t explain how we experience it all; mind blowing emptiness of this moment; entanglement; talking a different language; the Jimmy Hendrix of psychology; reductionism can’t explain subjective experience; consciousness and energy in the ground of being; consciousness as separation; the amazing brain; isness; why is this something rather than nothing? and more…