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Institute of Art and Ideas
Is consciousness part of the material world?
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...
Infognostica
Buddhist philosophy - What is Emptiness
What did Buddha mean when he talked about emptiness? It's often thought to be a depressing or nihilistic thing, but the original meaning of it couldn’t be further.
Infognostica
Buddhist philosophy - Consciousness and seeing - Do you see with just your eyes
Do you see with your eyes? This video is my take on another angle to approach consciousness. The key point being, the senses can only be experienced in consciousness, not some 'biological matter'.
Next Animation Studio
More brain-power for sight needed than previously thought
The visual world humans perceive is produced by parts of the brain lying outside of the visual cortex.
ShortCutsTv
Free-Will and Determinism
How 'free' are you? Professor Patrick Haggard explains the differences between determinism and free will and we look at behavioural, psychic and neurological determinism. We then reconstruct Libet's seminal experiment showing that brain...
Institute of Art and Ideas
If randomness is real, do we have any effect on the future?
God does not play dice with the universe' Einstein famously argued. Yet contemporary physics embeds just such dice playing at the core of its account. Is the universe really unknowable even to itself? Or as Einstein implied is this...
The Guardian
Erica: man made
Erica is 23. She has a beautiful, neutral face and speaks with a synthesised voice. She has a degree of autonomy – but can’t move her hands yet. Hiroshi Ishiguro is her ‘father’ and the bad boy of Japanese robotics. Together they will...
Institute of Art and Ideas
What is consciousness?
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...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is experience all that we have?
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...
After Skool
War On DRUGS or A War On the MIND? Part 1
When scientific study and ancient ritual point toward psychedelics as a tool for healing and awakening, why are these age-old plants regarded as harmful?
In this ground-breaking original series, experts explore the history and use...
In this ground-breaking original series, experts explore the history and use...
de Dicto
Time Perception with Dr Devin Terhune: Psychophysical experiments
Learn what insights were gained from psychophysical experiments. What is ecological validity and why is it important? Time Perception with Dr Devin Terhune, Part 2
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is a thinking machine even possible?
Evil artificial intelligences are luckily confined to fiction. Yet leading scientists claim that intelligent machines are 'the most serious threat facing mankind'. Are they right or could a mind free from human prejudices create a...
After Skool
The War on Consciousness - Graham Hancock
What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we're just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that's the end of consciousness, there is no life after...
Infognostica
The Science of Yoga (Part 7 - Consciousness)
A difficult subject to talk about, but this serves as a pointer towards it.
Consciousness is a mysterious thing. But the scientific mind has struggled to understand it. Only in meditation can we unde
rstand...
Consciousness is a mysterious thing. But the scientific mind has struggled to understand it. Only in meditation can we unde
rstand...
Alltime
6 Unsolved Mysteries of the Human Brain
Money makes the whole world go around, but some of them have a hell of a lot more of it than others. Who, I hear you ask? Well watch this video to find out!
The Wall Street Journal
Deepak Chopra On Tech's New Disruption: Health And Wellness
Deepak Chopra discusses the connection between AI, deep learning, immersive augmented reality, and our mental health at WSJ Tech Live.
National Parks Service
Poetry Workshop
Eric Smith is a ranger-naturalist in Tuolumne Meadows, a singer-songwriter, and student of poetry. Join him this morning for a 25-minute poetry workshop as he invites us all to reflect, imagine, create, and try on new "metaphysical masks."
AllTime 10s
10 Ways Technology Will Affect Evolution
Technology is advancing at such a rate that it seems almost inevitable that is will affect our biology. Here are 10 ways that technology could affect our evolution!
AllTime 10s
10 Theories About The Afterlife
What happens after you die? We've all wondered what happens to us when we eventually pass on 'to the other side', but what exactly is there to pass on to? Here are our 10 Theories About The Afterlife'
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Phenomenology: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the "phenomenology" of religion, which focuses on the experiential aspects of religion and the ways in which it can be described from both an observational and personal perspective. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled...
Crash Course
Crash Course Psychology #8: Consciousness
Crash Course video in Consciousness in which Hank Green teaches about consciousness and attention. [9:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Modern: Locke on Personal Identity, Part 3
Part 3 of 3. What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even give any explanation at all...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Modern: Locke on Personal Identity, Part 2
Part 2 of 3. What makes you the same person as the little kid growing up a number of years ago? Is the identity of a person tied to the persistence of a body or a soul or something else entirely? Can we even give any explanation at all...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: States of Consciousness
This video describes the different stages of consciousness and the brainwaves associated with each stage. [4:23]