Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas
[6:27] “I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” – Oliver Sacks on July 28, 1996 The renow…
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Why do You Get a Brain Freeze?
[3:43] Why do you get a brain freeze? Sometimes, after ice-cream or a cold drink, it can feel like your skull is squeezing …
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What Do You Think is Normal?
[4;42] What do we mean by “normal”? Cognitive scientists have found that your notion of normality is shap…
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Giulio Tononi: Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?
[8:12] Giulio Tononi tackles the hard problem, this time explaining Integrated Information Theory and various axiom…
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Consciousness and Intelligence Lecture
[1:23:13] MIT150 Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines Moderator: Shimon Ullman PhD ’77, Samy and Ruth Cohn Pr…
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Out-of-body experience is no illusion
[3:46] Neuroscientists in Lausanne study the weird phenomenon to prove it’s not an illusion, or paranormal, bu…
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Alan Alda: Grow Your Empathy Through Better Visual Perception
[10:19] The simple act of noticing someone’s eye color can build your empathy, explains Alan Alda, who got so cur…
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Alva Noë: What Makes Brains Conscious?
[10:22] [Video and text source: Closer To Truth YouTube channel]…
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Building Your Brain for Success with Legendary Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran
[49:41] Named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, V.S. Ramachandran sits down with T…
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Oliver Sacks: His Brain on Bach
[5:03] Famed neurologist Oliver Sacks has been a lifelong lover of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and thanks to a te…
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