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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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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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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Peter Singer & Richard Dawkins: A conversation on living ethically
[43:16] A detailed conversation on the tricky topic of how to approach life ethically. [Video and text source: Know Not…
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Paul Bloom: Are Humans Emotional Creatures or Are We Rational?
[4:28] For once, an optimistic worldview is the one sparking controversy. Paul Bloom thinks humans are not prisoners t…
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other?
[6:40] Robert Sapolsky has a bone to pick with oxytocin, or rather the public’s perception of oxytocin. It is the …
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Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority
[3:08] Many people are only too happy to obey an authority figure, even when what they’re being asked to do goes agains…
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Emily – 24 & ready to die
[21:33] Economist Films: Emily is 24 years old and physically healthy. But she wants her doctors to end her life. [Video…
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