BS 174 Georg Northoff, author of "The Spontaneous Brain"
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BS 174 is an interview with neuroscientist and philosopher Georg Northoff about his fascinating book "The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem." We explore the significance of the growing evidence that most of the brain's activity occurs independently of external stimuli with a focus on the implications of this finding for our understanding of how the brain generates consciousness.

Links and References:

• The Spontaneous Brain: From the Mind–Body to the World–Brain Problem) by Georg Northoff
• The Brain from Inside Out) by György Buzsáki  (BS 172))
• Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind) by Andy Clark (BS 126))
• Northoff G, et al. Is temporal-spatial dynamics the “common currency” of brain and mind? In Quest of “Spatiotemporal Neuroscience”. Why Life Rev (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2019.05.002) (Link to Abstract))
• Georg Northoff website: http://www.georgnorthoff.com) (for videos, talks and additional papers
• Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com) for additional references and episode transcripts.

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