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The pre-eminent power of music to affect human emotions exemplifies human-level experience. How can this happen? How does music alter mental states and what does this...
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Episode 12
Season 21
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Rebecca Goldstein discusses the meanings of “matter”, philosophy in science, the hard problem of consciousness, and her decades of experience as a fiction and...
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