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12.15.22
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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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If all that exists—everything imaginable, physical and nonphysical—is ‘something’. Why is there ‘something’ rather than ‘nothing’?...
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How does the mind work? It’s not obvious. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? What is extended mind? What is embodied mind?
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Episode 11
Season 18
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That the cosmos is a computer sounds like a modern metaphor, a way of explaining how things work. But some make a bolder claim: that the cosmos is in reality a computer, not...
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Information has become increasingly important in understanding the physical world around us, from ordinary computers to the underlying principles of fundamental physics,...
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Human beings yearn to live forever. But our only hope is some kind of non-physical reality like a personal God, alternative God, or cosmic consciousness. What would be the...
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Nothing means anything without our brains. Not science, not theology, not politics, not love. Everything we know and do—all the sense of human thought, all the feelings of...
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A ‘theory of everything’ is the ultimate workings of physics, the ideas and equations that undergird the physical universe at its deepest level. What can theory...
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Almost all religions offer some kind of life or awareness after physical death. Speculations of what such life after death might be like—the form it might take, how we...
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What is it about human brains that enable both the regulation of bodily activities and the generation of mental thoughts? What are the mechanisms of human brain function? How...
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As far as we know, brains are the most highly organized matter in the universe. How they make their magic is just astonishing.
Episode 05
Season 01
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