Full script: Introduction: Hello, welcome to Cracking The Nutshell. I would like to take this opportunity, right at the start of the video, to let you know that I need your help to keep running this channel. I’ll be completely…
(1) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Carl Sagan, Douglas Hofstadter, Edwin Abbott, epistemology, Flatland, Gödel Escher Bach, Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, introspection, intuition, knowledge, Kurt Gödel, limits of logic, limits of mathematics, limits of science, limits of understanding, mathematics, Mysticism, paradox, Paul Davies, proof, rational thinking, Science, self-growth, self-reference, the Self, transcendence, truth
Healing Guided Meditation
If you found this video of value, please consider purchasing the mp3 audio file 🙂 Here is the link: BUY NOW: Healing Meditation mp3 file Summary of this meditation: – Visualisation of energy around the area located at the bottom of your spine,…
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Free Will, Randomness & Non-Locality
What Does it Mean to be Free in a Totally Interconnected Universe? Note: this video follows from my previous video titled “How Much Free Will do You Have?”. I recommend you watch it before this one, as they are best…
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How Much Free Will Do You Have?
How Free Are Your Choices? Is Free Will an All or Nothing Concept? Full script: Introduction: How much free will do you have? How free are your choices? Are they 100% free? Or… not free at all? How about something…
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Do Electrons Have Free Will?
Quantum Physics & Free Will – Part 2: The Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem – Closing the Free Will Loophole Full Script: Introduction to the Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem: In this second video on Quantum Physics and Free Will, I’d like…
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Quantum Physics and Free Will: Part One
Bell’s Theorem, Determinism, Causality, Non-Locality, Realism, Free Will Axiom Full Script: Introduction: I have been thinking of writing a script covering the topic of free will for a long long time. I don’t remember having mentioned free will explicitly since…
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What is Physical? – Crumbling Physicalism
When Physical Became Synonym with “You’ve Got to Take This Seriously” Full script: First Part: Physicalism: the ontological thesis that everything is physical or that the real world consists only of physical entities. In other words, physicalism is the position…
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The Fall of Materialism
The Fall of Materialism – Something from Nothing? – The Dematerialisation of Matter Full script: Materialism: The world view that physical matter is the only reality or that matter is the fundamental substance in Nature, and that all phenomena –…
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This One Time… Science and the Paranormal – Part 1
Richard and Rupert Discuss Psychic Powers Full Script: Fair Use Notice: This piece of work has been written, recorded, designed, animated, produced and edited by Cracking the Nutshell over the course of 5 months. A small amount of material (either…
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Minds From Brains or Brains from Mind? Belief Boxes, Reality and the Self
Script: 1. The Belief Box "Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer “Your belief systems limit your reality to a sub-set of the solution space that does not contain the…
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