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What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...

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Can the Brain Explain Art?

Episode 03

Season 20

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If mind and brain are the same thing, then the physical world is likely all that exists. But if mind and brain are not the same thing, then what? Could reality go beyond the...

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Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?

Episode 05

Season 10

26:45

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Everything I know — everything! — comes from my brain. Consciousness, our private sense of inner awareness, is the one big question to which we might find...

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What Makes Brains Conscious?

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Season 07

26:46

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What is it about the brain that enables some scientists to claim they can explain mind? And what is it about scientific explanations that some philosophers reject?

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Can Brain Explain Mind?

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Season 02

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What is it about the brain that enables many scientists to claim the brain can fully explain mind? And what is it about such neuroscientific explanations of mental experience...

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Can Brain Explain Mind?

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1:13:18

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The mind consists of sensations, thoughts, cogitations, intentions, feelings. How could these inner mental capacities, these felt experiences, be produced by the three pounds...

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Does Brain Make Mind? (Part I)

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1:04:54

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The mind consists of sensations, thoughts, cogitations, intentions, feelings. How could these inner mental capacities, these felt experiences, be produced by the three pounds...

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Does Brain Make Mind? (Part II)

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40:16

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What must the brain do to generate the mind? The mind consists of sensations, thoughts, cogitations, intentions, feelings—the felt inner experiences that constitute what we...

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How Brain Makes Mind?

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10 videos

1:31:32

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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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How are Brains Conscious?

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1:29:04

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Everything we know, think and feel—everything!—comes from our brains. But consciousness, our private sense of inner awareness, remains a mystery. Brain...

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What Makes Brains Conscious?

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1:21:29

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For the brain and mind to be the same thing, mind must be entirely the output of brain. This means the mind must be the brain—literally, identically. If so, then the...

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Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?

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1:12:10

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Mind stuff consists of perceptions, cognitions, emotions. Brain stuff consists of electrical sparks and circuits and chemical concentrations and flows. These are not similar...

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What's the Stuff of Mind and Brain?

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1:03:28

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Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? What do scientists who study the brain think? And why do they think...

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How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness

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1:40:08

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What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...

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Neuroaesthetics: How the Brain Explains Art

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51:44

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How can aesthetics be explained by the brain and its underlying biological, chemical, and physical processes? Neuroscience is explaining ever more about art, but will...

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Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience

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1:04:53

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Modern brain research has given humankind a deeper understanding of how humans sense, think and feel. Yet, while the topic has enticed philosophers for centuries, the...

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