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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V.S. Ramachandran: Capgras Delusion
[11:24] V.S. Ramachandran solves the mystery for David who when looking at his mother assumes she is an impostor but who …
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David Chalmers: Physics of Consciousness
[7:13] How to explain our inner awareness that is at once most common and most mysterious? Traditional explanations fo…
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Anjan Chatterjee: How your brain decides what is beautiful
[14:48] Anjan Chatterjee uses tools from evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study one of nature&…
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Seeing hallucinations in the brain
[3:55] Scientists induced auditory hallucinations in the brains of people in MRI machines to learn more about how they …
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A Brain That Can’t Hear Music
[6:34] Oliver Sacks discusses some bizarre cases from his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.…
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Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Emotions Are Made
[1:02:50] Until recently, emotions were considered mere physical reflexes to experience. But research is gradually …
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Barry Smith: What is Consciousness Good For?
[22:22] What is Consciousness Good For? How much of what we do is driven by the automatic and the unconscious? Science ha…
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Neil degrasse Tyson: Alien vs Human Intelligence
[4:47] An interesting comparison made by Neil deGrasse Tyson between us and possible advanced life forms in the univer…
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