Robert Sapolsky on Oxytocin and Bonding
[3:40] Robert Sapolsky discusses oxytocin and it’s role in bonding. [Video and text source: JRE Clips YouTube c…
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Christof Koch: Can Consciousness be Non-Biological?
[6:07] If consciousness is 100% physical, we would have to conclude that the same kind of consciousness that we experie…
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Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’
[5:00] Would you get a brain cell transplant? And just how many cells can you have replaced without becoming a whole new p…
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David Chalmers: Hard Problem of Consciousness
[9:18] Philosopher David Chalmers on the combination problem, dualism, and panpsychism. [Video and text source: Ser…
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Mike Merzenich: How Do Human Brains Work?
[9:26] How can human brains run our physical bodies and produce our mental minds? What are the general principles of hum…
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Human-Specific Genes and Neocortex Expansion in Development and Evolution
[20:37] The search for human-specific genome changes underlying the unique neocortex expansion found only in the hum…
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Anil Seth: How your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
[17:00] Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — a…
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Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene – Unlocking the Human Code
[1:22:01] Genetics has revolutionised not just how we think of biology but how we think of ourselves. We are, in the word…
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What Is The Most Dangerous Drug In The World?
[4:17] From drug overdose to the war on drugs, what’s most deadly? [Video and text source: AsapSCIENCE YouTube c…
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Greg Ashby: The Remarkable Learning Abilities of the Human Brain
[29:38] Humans have multiple learning systems that for the most part are functionally and anatomically distinct, evo…
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