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Belief in the existence of the “spiritual essence” of an immortal soul has infused human thought and history. Still, most of today’s scientists remain...
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David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy at New York University where he is co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, discusses his important new book,...
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Most people believe that ESP, or extrasensory perception, is real. Most scientists assume the opposite. Is ESP wishful thinking, sloppy science or clever conjuring — or...
What is consciousness, our inner experience of private awareness? Can consciousness be explained by only physical activities of the physical world? Because if not, if there...
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Topic Series
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Freeman Dyson, visionary extraordinaire and creatively disruptive: realities inaccessible to science, independent mental, mind in the cosmos, science and theology, even...
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Episode 02
Season 21
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If the universe had been ever so slightly different, human beings wouldn’t, couldn’t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and...
Season 03
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If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different human beings wouldn’t, and couldn’t, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning,...
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1:06:39
What’s the relationship between language and consciousness? Which comes first? Does consciousness enable language? Or does language give rise to consciousness? What...
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Brains are conscious. The heart is not. What does the brain do that the heart does not do? How does it come to be that brains generate inner subjective experience, the movies...
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