Anil Seth: How your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
[17:00] Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — a…
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Why people think they see ghosts
[6:29] Even though there is no scientific evidence that ghosts exist, you may not be crazy if you see one. [Video and text…
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Robert Speth: So there is no free will. Now what?
[12:18] With the sequencing of the human genome and advances in neuroscience, along with discoveries in the fields of e…
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Split brain: One side a believer in god, the other not!
[2:21] FREE WILL IS COMPLICATED…. Do we have it, yes or no? It’s more of a tricky yes, no blend ‘YNESO…
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Beau Lotto: The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias
[6:44] To ensure your survival, your brain evolved to avoid one thing: uncertainty. As neuroscientist Beau Lotto poin…
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Colin McGinn: What is the Nature of Personal Identity?
[3:26] Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don̵…
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Lawrence Krauss: Why Schools Should Teach Skepticism Above Obedience
[5:37] “You can can get more information in your cell phone now than you can in any school, but you can also get more misi…
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Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
[15:51] How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we d…
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Why Humanity Destroyed Itself
[5:23] The real reason we may destroy ourselves isn’t really to do with politics or economics or even warfare. It has t…
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Steven Kotler: The Neuroscience Of Negativity: Why Pessimism in the Media Works
[6:54] The human brain is designed to flag and amplify the importance of negative news. But why? Bestselling author Ste…
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