Julia Sliwa: Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing and social scenes
[4:11] Julia Sliwa, The Rockefeller University [Video and text source: Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBM…
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Nicholas Humphrey: Powers of the Subconscious
[10:34] How significant is the subconscious? Though Freudian psychology is mostly discredited, most of our mental ac…
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Genevieve von Petzinger: Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe
[12:05] Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn’t just suddenly appear one day. Thousands …
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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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Robert Sapolsky: Being Human
[36:59] What makes us human? World renowned neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky explores one of the most fundamental ques…
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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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Giulio Tononi: Is there anything non physical about the mind?
[9:27] A look into how a leading neuroscientist Giulio Tononi is approaching the hard problem of consciousnes…
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John Searle: Can a Person Be a Soul?
[9:57] Is a soul required to make a person? If there is no soul, is there no person? Almost all scientists and most philoso…
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Bruce Hood: The domesticated brain: How the social environment turned us into children
[45:53] The human brain increased in size over the course of our evolution in response to increasing social complexity…
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