Past Programs
Animals - 2004
Is Goldie Gifted? - Plumbing the Depths of the Fish Psyche
11/09/2004
Don your wetsuit and travel into an unusual psyche indeed. What is the mind of a fish? Is fish consciousness anything like our own? This week, All in the Mind considers the charged debate over whether fish feel pain when the hook goes in. And, could we have underestimated the cognitive potential of our finned friends?
Part 2 of 2 - The Nature of Consciousness debate
04/09/2004
Zombies, coma, conscious robots - be prepared to travel to places you may have been too scared to go before. From the Australian Science Festival, UK psychologist and writer Susan Blackmore, astrophysicist Paul Davies, and philosopher David Chalmers join Natasha Mitchell to debate one of the greatest mysteries of science - the nature of human consciousness. Will science ever be able to explain that uncanny feeling from the inside of being an "I" or a "Me"? Do cats and dogs have the same feeling too? And what about robots - are they about to?
