Who are You in a Deterministic, Materialistic, Reductionistic & Objectively Real World? And the day came when man conceived of a materialistic, deterministic, reductionistic, objectively real clockwork universe made of space, time, energy and matter governed by fixed, unchanging physical…
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The Clockwork Universe
Posted in Videos Tagged with: animate matter, arrow of time, big-bang, block time, block universe, bottom-up causality, causality, cause and effect, classical physics, clockwork universe, complexity, consciousness, Daniel Dennet, determinism, emergence, emergent consciousness, emergent mind, evolution, free will, goal, illusion of consciousness, illusion of free will, illusion of time, illusory free will, immutable laws of physics, inanimate matter, Laplace, laws of physics, linear causal chains, linear causality, local realism, materialism, mind, nature of self, Objective Realism, purpose, qualia, randomness, reductionism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Feynman, Sam Harris, self-awareness, self-organisation, space-time, spacetime, the Self, time, universe
What is Information? Part 2a – Information Theory
Intro to Information Theory: Claude Shannon, Entropy, Redundancy, Data Compression & Bits Script: Summary of Previous Video: In the previous video I discussed several definitions of information and I mainly concentrated on Gregory Bateson’s definition, which describes information as…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: A mathematical Theory of Communication, ASCII code, binary digit, bits per character, Claude Shannon, compression, data compression, david huffman, entropy, entropy English language, entropy in a coin flip, entropy per character, huffman code, increase in knowledge, information content, information entropy, information gain, information theory, John Tukey, John von Neumann, lossless data compression, lossy data compression, lower bound data compression, randomness, redundancy, Shannon's bit, Shannon's entropy formula, Shannon's information, Source Coding Theorem, storage bit, tossing a coin, Tukey's bit, uncertainty, uncertainty in a probabilistic process, uncertainty reduction, variable length coding, Warren Weaver
Schrödinger’s Thoughts: Non-feline Philosophical Ponderings…
Schrödinger's Thoughts: on Life, Free Will, the Self, Oneness of Mind, Consciousness, Science, Objective Realism vs Monistic Idealism Script: This is the first part of a series of videos where I explore what the founders and main contributors to Quantum…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Aldous Huxley, Athman, Atman, Brahman, consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, determinism, Erwin Schrödinger, eternal self, free will, illusion, Indian Maja, Laws of Nature, life and entropy, Monistic Idealism, negative entropy, Objective Realism, One Mind, Perennial Philosophy, personal self, plural, plurality of minds, Schopenhauer, Schrödinger, Science, science has removed mind from reality, singular, Subject of Cognitanze, the Arithmetical Paradox, the ground of all things, The principle of objectivation, Universal Consciousness, Universal Mind, Upanishads, Vedanta, What am I?, What is Life?
What is Information? (1)
What is information? (Part 1): Is information Subjective – Physical – Fundamental? Perception & Meaning Script: Introduction We are living in the Information Age. From the birth of the digital computer to 24-hour television, from our love affair…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: a difference which makes a difference, Anton Zeilinger, assigning meaning, binary digit, binary states, bit, consciousness, digital philosophy, digital physics, emergent or fundamental, free will, Gregory Bateson, idealism, information as perception, information matter and energy, is information fundamental, is information physical, is information subjective, knowledge acquisition, life, potential for knowledge, Rolf Landauer, sentient life, Steven Kaufman, to give form to the mind, what is information
Videos Update – 10th March 2013
Hello, just wanted to post a little update. Today the average views/day count for my "What is Time?" video has gone over the 2,000 mark. I never expected this in a million years…! Well, if I'm honest, there was actually zero…
Lucid Dreams Vs Out-of-Body Experiences
Guest post by Sofia Andrewski: Are lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) the same thing? Many people are inclined to argue that they are both internally generated dream-based experiences, with no real discernible difference. Practitioners of both or either phenomena…
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The Process of Death – Interesting Research by Sam Parnia
Hello there! Having a horrible week battling bugs (and taking care of those who are also battling the same bugs). I am hoping that next week will be much more productive. Need to sort the "About" page, I know…! Anyway, I…
The Problem of Free Will
Guest post by Sofia Andrewski: How can free will exist in a deterministic universe? This problem haunts scientists and philosophers alike. My argument is that the universe determines the capacity for free will. Here is the argument: 1.The nature of the…
Posted in Guest Posts Tagged with: actualised decision, agent, branches of causal chains, capacity of free will, causal chain, causal chains, cause and effect, chain of determined events, classical determinism, conscious entities, determinism, free decisions, free will, freedom of thought, genetics, hypothetical determination, hypothetical influence, illusion of free will, linear time, making decisions, now moment, possibility of resisting, possible futures, pre-determinism, probable future, resisting impulses, Retro-Hypothetic Determination, RHD, social conditioning, what causes thoughts
What is Time?
Video Transcription: Introduction This is probably one of the most difficult questions you can ever ask a physicist or philosopher… I am not a physicist – yet – nor a philosopher, but here I am, little old me, not only…
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