It is standard medicine that mental states can affect physical states. That’s how placebos work—when sham drugs improve health, working by inducing the body to...
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Personal agency is a state, the capacity of individuals to affect things. Free will is a mental faculty of various strengths. What’s the relationship between free will...
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‘Non-Duality’ is a particular philosophy, related to Eastern philosophy and religion, that privileges the mental over the physical. It is the claim that the only...
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How can human brains run our physical bodies and produce our mental minds? What are the general principles of human brain function? Neuroscience can tackle the physical...
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God is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. But what is God’s private mental life? Can we appreciate God as a Supreme Being?
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Episode 03
Season 12
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There is more to our mental lives than the current content of our awareness. Our subconscious affects what we sense, think, feel and do. How does the subconscious work its...
Season 17
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It’s the stuff of our private selves, that which gives us our personal and collective identity. But just what is this thing called consciousness? Experts say that this...
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Is our mental life a random accident, solely the product or byproduct of physical brain? Or is there something deeply special about conscious awareness that may reveal a...
Episode 08
Season 03
How does consciousness weave its magical web of inner awareness-appreciating music, enjoying art, feeling love? Even when all mental functions may be explained, the great...
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Season 04
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How is it possible that mushy masses of brain cells, passing chemicals and shooting sparks, literally are mental sensations and subjective feelings? They seem so radically...
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Season 02
What makes me a self? I see. I hear. I feel. How can separate perceptions bind together into a coherent mental unity? How can all be me? And how does my self persist through...
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Season 08
Consciousness is what mental activity feels like, the private inner experience of sensation, thought and emotion. Consciousness is like nothing else.
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