Robert Wright & David Chalmers conversation: What is consciousness for?
[1:07:11] 00:00 Why consciousness is so weird 09:40 Is consciousness like your brain’s shadow? 17:21 If David was a z…
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Thomas Metzinger: The transparent avatar in your brain
[16:26] Thomas Metzinger is a German philosopher. As of 2000 he holds the position of director of the theoretical philo…
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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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Check your intuition: The birthday problem
[5:06] Imagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there’s more than a 50% chance th…
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Lisa Welling: It’s not you, it’s my hormones Testosterone Influences
[16:24] My research finds that increases in testosterone is associated with increased preferences for sexually dimo…
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Does Expensive Wine Really Taste Better?
[3:58] Is there really a big difference between expensive wine and cheap wine? Trace is joined by Nick Uhas to discuss wh…
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Jeremy Nathans: The Hering Optical Illusion
[4:07] The Hering optical illusion explained. [Video and text source: iBioEducation YouTube channel]…
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Fotini Markopoulou: How Does Beauty Color the Universe?
[3:01] What do scientists mean when they call the laws and regularities of nature beautiful? On the largest supra-cosm…
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Barry Schwartz on the New Science of Happiness
[4:58] Social psychologist Barry Schwartz discusses the new science of happiness as well as the difference between re…
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Alva Noë: Why a Mind-Body Problem?
[10:08] How does the brain produce the mind? This is one of the most difficult problems in science, because how can physi…
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