Christof Koch: Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
[6:07] If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experie…
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Alison Gopnik: Free Will and Decision Making
[9:39] What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among op…
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Mike Merzenich: How Do Human Brains Work?
[9:26] How can human brains run our physical bodies and produce our mental minds? What are the general principles of hum…
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Rodolfo Llinás: Arguing God from Consciousness?
[5:40] What is it about consciousness that lead some to infer the existence of God? Both are mysteries but what follows f…
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Colin McGinn: What is the Nature of Personal Identity?
[3:26] Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don̵…
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Ken Mogi: How are Brains Conscious?
[5:51] Brains are conscious. The heart is not. What does the brain do that the heart does not do? How does it come to be that …
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Peter Tse: How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness
[13:01] Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? Wha…
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Fotini Markopoulou: How Does Beauty Color the Universe?
[3:01] What do scientists mean when they call the laws and regularities of nature beautiful? On the largest supra-cosm…
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Christof Koch: Why Philosophy of Science?
[6:44] Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to r…
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Alison Gopnik: Why Philosophy of Science?
[10:10] Science is humankind’s magnificent achievement, the way of thinking to discern facts and truths and to …
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