Stuart Kauffman: What Causes Religious Belief?
[2:09] Religious belief is everywhere. Why so pervasive, ubiquitous across diverse human cultures? What motivates t…
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Yuval Noah Harari: The Future of Humanity
[28:20] Dr Yuval Noah Harari explains how revolutions in technology and society will transform our bodies and minds. T…
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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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Joseph Campbell: Why Myth?
[3:45] Joseph Campbell explains the importance of a healthy understanding of history and mythology. [Video and text s…
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David Wallace: The many worlds of quantum physics
[1:03:26] Discussion about ‘The Many Worlds theory’ and all sorts of quantum mysteries between David Wa…
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
[4:21] We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, S…
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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: Is God Temporal or Timeless?
[6:29] Is God temporal, existing in time as we humans do? Or is God outside of time, eternal, and living a radically diffe…
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Daniel Dennett: Memes 101 – How Cultural Evolution Works
[7:04] We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea …
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Nihilism & the Postmodern
[27:51] The 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “There can be no doubt that morality will gradual…
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Christopher Hitchens: Morality
[3:24] Christopher Hitchens gives his views on morality and where it is derived from. [Video and text source Morphing R…
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