The Sciences of Consciousness: Progress and Problems
[1:17:37] Christof Koch – Allen Institute for Brain Science lecture [Video and text source: Center for Brains,…
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What It’s Like Inside Our Minds
[3:21] It’s remarkably hard to imagine what it might be like inside our minds. But doing so helps us to see that the real …
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David Wallace: The many worlds of quantum physics
[1:03:26] Discussion about ‘The Many Worlds theory’ and all sorts of quantum mysteries between David Wa…
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Robert Wright & Michael Shermer: The purpose of evolution
[1:14:28] 1:31 Bob’s NY Times article on evolution and purpose 23:23 Was evolution likely to produce the Internet? 3…
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Uta Frith: Theory of Mind
[10:55] Uta Frith discusses ‘Theory of mind’ and how autistic persons do not have that capability. [Vide…
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David Cox: Towards an Artificial Brain
[20:43] The fast-advancing fields of neuroscience and computer science are on a collision course. David Cox, Assista…
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Happiness Genes Located for First Time
[3:30] A huge study involving 190 researchers in 140 research centers across 17 countries have located some specific g…
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Anil Seth: The Neuroscience of Consciousness
[1:00:13] Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth looks at the neuroscience of consciousne…
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David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness: 300 years on
[1:59:10] In this lecture David Chalmers considers a progress in solving the mind-body problem, outlines contempora…
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Daniel Dennett: How Human Consciousness Evolved
[6:45] Daniel Dennett has been mulling consciousness over for the last 50 years, and he’s ended up where we began: evo…
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