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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David Eagleman: Possibilianism
[20:34] Neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman introduces the concept of Possibilianism, a new phil…
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David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?
[20:38] As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” say…
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David Eagleman: The Brain and The Law
[34:16] It’s still very much a work in progress trying to unravel the paradox of free will. There’s so many …
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David Eagleman: Hits and Misses – How Neuroscience Can Boost Your Creativity
[5:23] “All ideas have a genealogy,” says David Eagleman. A writer, neuroscientist, and adjunct profes…
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David Eagleman on Choice
[32:11] David Eagleman at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference in 2011, an interdisciplinary meeting investigati…
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David Eagleman: Powers of the Subconscious
[8:44] How significant is the subconscious? Though Freudian psychology is mostly discredited, most of our mental act…
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David Eagleman: The Brain – Mirroring Others
[4:00] David measures the movement of facial muscles in two group of subjects, and reveals why we mirror each other’s …
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David Eagleman: The Brain – Unconscious Cues
[2:47] The unconscious brain picks up on sexual cues without you even being aware of it. In this experiment men were aske…
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David Eagleman: The Brain – Romanian Orphanages
[2:49] An examination of Romanian orphanages reveals how neglect at a young age impacts underdevelopment in brains. […
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