What Is Consciousness?
Philosophy's Deepest Inquiry into the Mind, from Ancient Meditations on the Self Through Descartes and Phenomenology to the Hard Problem and AIBy Alex Omberg
Length3h 36m
About this audiobook
The greatest mystery in the universe isn't out there. It is inside your head.
You are conscious right now. You are reading these words, and there is a specific feeling of what it is like to be you doing so. But how does wet, physical brain matter create vivid, subjective experience?
This single question—the Hard Problem of Consciousness—remains the most baffling puzzle in both science and philosophy.
In What Is Consciousness?, Alex Omberg takes you on an exhilarating, 2,500-year journey through the ultimate labyrinth: the human mind. From the ancient temples of Greece and the deep meditation traditions of India, to the mind-bending theories of modern phenomenology and the cutting-edge frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, this book bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience.
You will never look at yourself—or the world around you—the same way again.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Science and Nature
Length3 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction: The Mystery You Are
26Chapter 5: The Problem of Other Minds
2Chapter 1: Know Thyself
27The Argument from Analogy
3The Divided Soul
28Philosophical Zombies
4Form and Function
29Behaviorism's Response
5The Ruling Faculty
30Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument
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6Atoms of the Soul
31The Inference to Best Explanation
7The Self Examined
32Living with Uncertainty
8Chapter 2: The Inner Light
33Chapter 6: Mind Equals Brain?
9The Self Beyond Experience
34The Identity Theory
10No Self to Be Found
35Functionalism
11Maps of the Mind
36Eliminative Materialism
12The Argument from Introspection
37The Explanatory Gap
13The Living Laboratory
38Property Dualism
14Chapter 3: The Ghost in the Machine
39The Persistence of Mystery
15Two Substances
40Chapter 7: The Return to Experience
16The Interaction Problem
41The Method of Epoché
17Occasionalism and Parallelism
42Being-in-the-World
18The Legacy of Dualism
43Embodied Consciousness
19The Problem Evolves
44The Lived Body
20Chapter 4: The Identity Puzzle
45Consciousness and Freedom
21Memory and the Self
46The First-Person Perspective
22The Bundle Theory
47Chapter 8: The Hard Problem
23Thought Experiments
48Easy Problems and Hard Problem
24What Are We?
49The Knowledge Argument
25What Really Matters
50The Zombie Argument
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