Oliver Turnbull: Affective Consciousness | Ep. 3

This episode features Oliver Turnbull, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Neuropsychology at Bangor University and its North Wales Medical School, who explores how emotion forms the biological foundation of consciousness in both humans and other animals. Drawing on neuropsychology, developmental theory, and evolutionary science, he describes emotions as an ancient primary system from which thought, memory, and the sense of self emerge, while also examining possible oral components of early emotional life and the mistaken ‘confabulations’ of artificial intelligence.