Thalia Wheatley: What Causes Religious Belief?
[1:30] Religious belief is everywhere. Why so pervasive, ubiquitous across diverse human cultures? What motivates t…
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Stuart Kauffman: What Causes Religious Belief?
[2:09] Religious belief is everywhere. Why so pervasive, ubiquitous across diverse human cultures? What motivates t…
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Guy Ritchie “You Must Be The Master of Your Own Kingdom”
[14:19] Joe Rogan and Guy Ritchie discuss the internal battle over self identity, the Prodigal Son parable, and the ess…
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Eric Schwitzgebel: How Belief Systems Affect Believers
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The Feynman Technique: How to Study Way More Effectively
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Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
[4:48] Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today’s thinkers like Plato. He created the first Weste…
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Hector Avalos: Religion & Violence
[54:49] A New Theory for an Old Problem Professor of religious studies at Iowa State University, Dr. Hector Avalos spea…
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Rodolfo Llinás: Is the Person All Material?
[11:13] What makes a human a ‘person’? What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most assume …
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Richard Clarke: How some people predict disasters before they happen
[10:09] Noticing a pattern emerge in the aftermath of some of the worst catastrophes in recent years—like Hurricane …
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Richard Feynman: Nature of Nature
[6:12] “Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really th…
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