Curated Video
Recovering Intentionality
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) highlights the core difference between the social sciences and natural sciences, involving intentionality.
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Against Reification
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) argues that we need to move beyond reification of abstract concepts and recognize intentionality.
Curated Video
Assessing Intentions
Political theorist Mark Bevir, UC Berkeley, relates his conviction of how political science - and the human sciences in general - differ strongly from the natural sciences in that political science requires acts of interpretation to...
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Beyond Reflex
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti relates his experience studying minimally conscious patients in an effort to probe the limits of consciousness, describing how distinguishing between conscious acts and mere reflex is sometimes much harder...
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Characterizing Autism
UCL development psychologist Uta Frith relates her view on what the essence of autism is, describing how the critical feature of autism is a lack of an innate ability to “mentalize” or attribute an inner life to others.
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The Mentalizing Brain
UCL developmental psychologist Uta Frith describes how she used brain scanning technology to illustrate that the brain uses specific networks when involved in so-called “mentalizing activities” central to understanding autism.
Sir Linkalot
Sir Linkalot Christmas links - 'conscious'
The children are just the sweetest but Miss Fleming wins the day with her truly bonkers glasses! A legend.
Curated Video
Lucid Dreams: How does it work, Benefits, Dangers & How to Do It
The best way to start lucid dreaming is by training the brain to pick up dream signs. I'll discuss dream signs, Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD), Wake back to bed (WBTB), Reality Testing and Sleep Diaries. But first, I'll start...
Cerebellum
The Human Body Nervous Systems - Introduction To The Nervous System
Experts in neuroscience help us understand why the human brain is a marvel of structure and function. Viewers learn about left brain and right brain activities, and the purpose and function of the cerebellum, cerebrum, cranial nerves and...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Effective Sustainability Marketing
Describes the risk of not communicating your sustainability strategy and efforts and how to create an effective marketing message
Institute of Art and Ideas
Matter and Mind (long form version)
Neuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience. Is consciousness inexplicable because it is not part of the material...
Music Matters
Horizontal and Vertical Sight Reading
Learning to sight read advanced piano music involves improving your skills in both horizontal and vertical sight reading. Some keyboard players tend to read individual lines from left to right on the score. This is useful for absorbing...
Oxford Comma
Poetic Devices Explained: LINE BREAKS (Definitions, Examples, and How to Use Them).
The third video in our series on poetic devices, in this video will look at how poets use line breaks to create meter and music in their poetry. We'll also examine how to write about them as well as a clever usage from early pop-punk music.
Science360
Off the water grid Energy efficient and sustainable
This University of Miami residence hall may look typical, but students in one of the apartments are participating in research involving one of the planet's most precious commodities--water. With support from the National Science...
Brian McLogan
Determine the dot product between two vectors
Learn how to determine the dot product of vectors. The dot product of two vectors also called the scalar product of the vectors is the sum of the product of the components of the vectors in each direction. When the magnitudes of the...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Hidden Desires and Secret Thoughts (long form version)
Many have been sceptical of Freud's claim that unconscious desires control our lives. Yet recent studies show the conscious brain processes only a tiny fraction of the brain as a whole. Are hidden desires and secret thoughts driving our...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Psychology
It's time to learn about the mind! This is actually not the same as the brain, which we learned about in the biopsychology series. The mind is located in the brain, but it can't quite be reduced to brain function if we wish to describe...
Curated Video
The Impact of Touch on the Brain
Human touch has a huge impact on our brains and bodies. Learn how touch is processed by the brain and how the body responds to the sensation.
Science360
Searching for Answers - Mysteries of the Brain
For more than a century, scientists have studied the brain, and yet there is still so much about it that remains a mystery. New research is underway to develop and use cutting-edge technologies, and scientists across disciplines are...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Caitlin Krause at BLC14 - Mindfulness in the Classroom Increase the Wow! by Staying in the Now!
Filmed at Building Learning Communities 2014. Caitlin Krause studied English and Interdisciplinary Art at Duke University and received her MFA in Writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has taught English,...
Institute of Art and Ideas
What is experience and why is it mysterious?
Our life is made up of experiences. But what experience is remains a mystery. Heidegger thought it inexplicable and neuroscientists cannot find its location. Do we just need a better theory to uncover its secrets? Or is experience...
Global Ethics Solutions
Habit and Conscience Equals Ethical Character
Many of our behaviors stem from habit and consciousness. While both are developed from experiences in your life, each one plays a different role when making ethical decisions. In this course you will learn the difference between your...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Elevator Pitch - What is Consciousness?
How does our brain shape our entire perspective of the world? Neuroscientist, Dr Sarah McKay, does her best to explain in an elevator ride.