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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Bret Weinstein: The Personal Responsibility Vortex
[16:33] Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary theorist and member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College. In “…
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Hugo Mercier: The Function of Reason
[6:54] Many of us believe our capacity to reason helps us to acquire knowledge and make better decisions – but wha…
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Robert Sapolsky: Why You Don’t Have Free Will: Your Breakfast Food, Biology, and Culture
[3:35] ‘Societal conditioning’ might sound like either a grim Orwellian brainwashing technique or a fa…
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The Most Censored Bible Chapter
[14:20] Why do so many books skip this chapter? Lets find out, shall we? [Video and text source: DarkMatter2525 YouTube…
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Anil Seth: How your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
[17:00] Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — a…
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Why people think they see ghosts
[6:29] Even though there is no scientific evidence that ghosts exist, you may not be crazy if you see one. [Video and text…
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Robert Speth: So there is no free will. Now what?
[12:18] With the sequencing of the human genome and advances in neuroscience, along with discoveries in the fields of e…
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Beau Lotto: The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias
[6:44] To ensure your survival, your brain evolved to avoid one thing: uncertainty. As neuroscientist Beau Lotto poin…
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Lisa Feldman Barrett: Pain in the brain
[16:44] Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, whe…
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