Big Questions in Free Will
[1:37:05} Do we have free will? After so many centuries of debate by so many great thinkers, can we still make progress in …
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David Eagleman: Mysteries of Free Will
[4:47] Our human sense is that our will is fully free. Our scientific sense is that every action is determined by a prior a…
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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong – Fallacies in Arguing for God?
[11:26] Believers in God should be appalled when poor arguments are offered to ‘prove’ the existence of G…
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Joseph Ledoux: How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness
[7:31] Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? What …
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Susan Blackmore – Can Religion Be Explained Without God?
[3:51] Religion without God? Most people believe that God exists and religion is God’s revelation. But some say …
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Nicholas Humphrey: Powers of the Subconscious
[10:34] How significant is the subconscious? Though Freudian psychology is mostly discredited, most of our mental ac…
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Murali Doraiswamy: What are Altered States of Consciousness?
[11:18] Altered states of consciousness are non-normal states of mental awareness or experiences. These include dre…
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Stephen Chorover: How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness
[10:15] Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? Wha…
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Robert Stickgold: Why Sleep?
[10:37] Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? [Video and text source: Closer To Truth YouTube channel]…
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David Chalmers: Physics of Consciousness
[7:13] How to explain our inner awareness that is at once most common and most mysterious? Traditional explanations fo…
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