V.S. Ramachandran: Fending off faith based claims with too much class!
[1:13:54] V. Ramachandran is considered one of the foremost neuroscientist in the world. He has made numerous path-br…
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CRITICAL THINKING – Cognitive Biases: Reference Dependence and Loss Aversion
[5:57] Laurie Santos, a psychologist at Yale University, explains two of our classic economic biases: reference depe…
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The People Who Worship Aliens as Gods
[8:02] So far, the concept of aliens in popular culture has largely been limited to little green, probing perverts from …
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Anjan Chatterjee: How your brain decides what is beautiful
[14:48] Anjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature&…
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Joe Rogan & Sean Carroll on Deepak Chopra woo woo word salad
[5:15] Joe Rogan and Sean Carroll talk about Deepak Chopra. [Video and text source: JRE Clips YouTube channel]…
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All Realities Are Virtual
[3:15] “Reality” is just a word and you shouldn’t use it without quotation marks around it anyway. …
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Seeing hallucinations in the brain
[3:55] Scientists induced auditory hallucinations in the brains of people in MRI machines to learn more about how they …
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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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Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions Are Made
[1:02:50] Until recently, emotions were considered mere physical reflexes to experience. But research is gradually …
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