Barry Schwartz on the New Science of Happiness
[4:58] Social psychologist Barry Schwartz discusses the new science of happiness as well as the difference between re…
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Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things
[14:11] THE EGO – A natural process NOT TO BE CRITICIZED, that helps humanity be critical of others individually …
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Colin Camerer: The Strategizing Brain
[14:49] Colin Camerer is the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at Caltech. He earned a Ph.D. from the Univ…
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Raoul Martinez: Life is Just a Lottery
[7:00] Life is Just a Lottery with Raoul Martinez. Informed by over a decade of research, Martinez lifts the veil on the m…
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My Society My Self?
[1:32:10] How do we develop a sense of who we truly are? Do we perceive ourselves as science defines us? While some scient…
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Peter Tse: Search for Meaning
[4:57] To search for meaning, God or something like God is often involved. But this need not be so. How can meaning be foun…
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Frank Wilczek: To Understand the Brain We Need to Consider Multiple Realities
[5:00] Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek argues that understanding basic physical laws is sufficient to grasp how the mind …
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Thomas Metzinger: The Ego Tunnel
[17:46] Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explor…
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Bruce Hood: Why Do We Believe the Unbelievable?
[16:26] Bruce Hood speaks about the concept of ‘essentialism’ which he demonstrates by offering £50 to an audien…
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Philosophie + Pornographie: Kant
[3:37] Immanuel Kant was one of the foremost philosophers to reflect on aesthetics; he was particularly interested in …
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