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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Molly Crockett: How Morally Outraged Are You? Well, That Depends on Who’s Watching
[4:55] Outrage on the internet is very, very easy to find. It seems that everyday someone has done something that other p…
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Eliezer Yudkowsky: Heuristics and Biases
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Sam Harris: Human Values
[8:24] “Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.” Sam Harris [Video and text…
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Dexter Dias: Why HUMANS HURT Each Other
[6:59] We want to believe that there are some things we would never do. But how can we be sure? Human rights barrister and r…
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Patricia Churchland: The Brains Behind Morality
[19:16] What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from elect…
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Robert Wright & Christof Koch: Quantifying consciousness
[53:28] 01:39 The search for non-human consciousness 14:44 Consciousness in the organic and inorganic worlds 19:36 M…
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Workshop: Taking on Woo in Martial Arts
[1;28:42] This 1.5 hour workshop presented outside of the main TAM programming features SF Zeigler, David Jones, Bren…
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Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
[13:29] When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world ̵…
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Dan Ariely: What is morality?
[4:31] There’s the morality we aspire to and the morality we play by day-to-day, says Ariely. [Video and text sou…
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