Koinophobia: The Fear that You’ve Lived an Ordinary Life
[2:55] While you’re in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance f…
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Dean Buonomano: Your Brain Tells You Time Is Real — But Is It Lying to You?
[4:43] If you’re here to indulge in some mind-bending talk about time travel, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano is …
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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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Thomas Metzinger: The Ego Tunnel
[17:46] Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and their relations are explor…
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Sam Harris: Meaning
[3:08] Sam Harris answers a question about the meaning of life. [Video and text source: Morphing Reality YouTube chann…
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Consciousness: the hard problem? – Discussion
[1:03:10] [Video and text source: The Royal Institution YouTube channel]…
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Max Tegmark: Consciousness is a mathematical pattern
[16:36] As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as “food, rearranged.” That makes his answer to complica…
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Adam Alter: Goal Setting Is a Hamster Wheel. Learn to Set Systems Instead
[3:49] You’ve just achieved a goal you’ve been working towards for two years. You did it! Congratulation…
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Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
[14:26] The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what’s real and wh…
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