Metaphysics: The Grandfather Paradox
[8:57] Agustín Rayo (M.I.T.) explains the grandfather paradox, one of the classic paradoxes of time travel. [Source…
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Consciousness: Explored and Explained
[1:31:35] Consciousness is a terrible curse. Or so says a character in screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman’s Be…
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Epistemology: Sleeping Beauty
[6:34] In this video, Michael Campbell introduces the Sleeping Beauty problem. This is a problem in formal epistemolo…
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Where Did God Come From?
[6:31] The word “religion” comes from the Latin “religio,” which means to unite or to unite …
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Arthur Brooks: The Secret of Happiness
[1:19:17] This lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University October 3, 2013. Arthur C. Brooks is pre…
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George Loewenstein: This is Your Brain on Emotion
[1:07:58] This Yates lecture was hosted by the Murphy Institute at Tulane University on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. As the …
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Robert Seyfarth: Theory of Mind
[3:36] Robert Seyfarth talks about how children develop a ‘theory of mind’. [Source: Richard Dawkins Fo…
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Rodolfo Llinás: “Enter the ‘I of the Vortex'”
[1:12:44] Rodolfo Llinás, a founding father of modern brain science, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Ne…
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The Ultimate Conspiracy Debunker
[2:02] Most Conspiracy Theories are stupid. By the power of the internet they spread like wildfire and often poison dis…
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How statistics can be misleading
[4:18] Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most i…
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