Rodolfo Llinás: Is the Person All Material?
[11:13] What makes a human a ‘person’? What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most assume …
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The Social Synapse
[1:43:48] We humans work together on enormous scales, build complex tools as large as cities, and create social networ…
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What is consciousness?
[12:42] WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? Very simply, we have absolutely no idea yet. Known as one of the very complex ‘har…
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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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Building Your Brain for Success with Legendary Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran
[49:41] Named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, V.S. Ramachandran sits down with T…
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V.S. Ramachandran & B. Alan Wallace: The brain, the mind and our potential
[41:43] What makes us human? How does the mind influence the brain? How can we explain the placebo effect? How does infor…
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What It’s Like Inside Our Minds
[3:21] It’s remarkably hard to imagine what it might be like inside our minds. But doing so helps us to see that the real …
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Robert Wright & Michael Shermer: The purpose of evolution
[1:14:28] 1:31 Bob’s NY Times article on evolution and purpose 23:23 Was evolution likely to produce the Internet? 3…
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Bees play golf
[0:51] Bumblebees have learned to push a ball into a hole to get a reward, stretching what was thought possible for small…
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Uta Frith: Theory of Mind
[10:55] Uta Frith discusses ‘Theory of mind’ and how autistic persons do not have that capability. [Vide…
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