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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Why We Are All Addicts
[4:13] We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using some…
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Is the Human Mind Unique? Entering the Soul Niche; An Evolved and Creative Mind; and Humor
[59:24] Cognitive abilities often regarded as unique to humans include humor, morality, symbolism, creativity, and …
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Colin McGinn: What is the Nature of Personal Identity?
[3:26] Look at an old photo. Then look in the mirror. Those two images are of the same person, right? How so? They don̵…
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Optimistic Nihilism
[6:09] The philosophy of Kurzgesagt. [Video and text source: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell YouTube channel]…
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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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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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PHILOSOPHY – David Hume
[11:05] David Hume is one of Scotland’s greatest philosophers. His claim to greatness lies in his appreciation of or…
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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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