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[15:15] What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who w…

[2:49] Entry for the Project Reason 2011 video contest. Why evolution is not a controversy among scientists and why it s…

[9:36] The beginning of my final battle with the professor and the professor’s perspective of the concept of a pe…

[9:32] I explain the end of my confident faith in God and the beginning of what became irreparable doubts about God̵…

[7:40] Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don̵…

[3:40] We talk about all the potentially challenging situations autonomous cars could get into but not about how human …

[7:18] ‘Self awareness’ has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the m…

[7:34] I explain the torturous emotional roller-coaster and eventual desolate hopelessness and terror that resulte…

[10:08] Kant famously claims that we have synthetic apriori knowledge. Indeed, this claim is absolutely central to al…

[5:49] People tend to value knowledge; it’s better to know something than just to believe it, even if your belief is co…