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(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,…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: activating kundalini, anger, anxiety, ASMR, beach waves, chakra cleansing, chakra meditation, compassion, dark side, depression, energy, forgiveness, gratitude, guided meditation, happiness, harmony, inner peace, kundalini meditation, kundalini yoga, love, low self esteem, meditation, no thoughts, peace, point meditation, positive affirmations, pure awareness, relaxation, relaxing whisper, Sahaja yoga, self-hypnosis, shadow self, soothing female voice, thoughtless awareness
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Bell's Theorem, causality, Conway & Kochen, determinism, eavesdropper, Einstein's relativity, entanglement, ESP, free choice, free will, intent, light cone, local causality, memory, Nicholas Gisin, non-locality, non-separability, oneness, past history, Quantum Cryptography, quantum mechanics, random choice, random number generator, randomness, reductionism, self-determination, space-time, special relativity, super determinism
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Benjamin Libet, consciousness, constrained free will, control, Conway & Kochen, decision space, determinism, external circumstances, free choice, free will, Free Will Theorem, freedom, genes, how much free will, illusory self, is free will an illusion, limited choices, power of mind, psychology of free will, quantum mechanics, realism, reductionism, Sam Harris, self-reflective consciousness, unconscious
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: 100% free choice, Albert Einstein, Bell's Theorem, Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem, determinism, determinism loophole, do particles have free will, do we have free will, Earth-Moon experiment, free choice, free choice loophole, free will loophole, Free Will Theorem, freedom of choice, indeterminism, John Conway, Kochen-Specker Theorem, MIN, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, quantum theory, random number generator, Simon Kochen, space-like separated, space-time, special relativity, SPIN, Strong Free Will Theorem, superdeterminism, TWIN
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Albert Einstein, Anton Zeilinger, Bell's inequalities, Bell's Theorem, causality, causation, cause and effect, determinism, free choice, free will, free will axiom, freedom of choice, hidden variables, indeterminacy, indeterminism, interconnectedness, interdependence, John Archibald Wheeler, John Stewart Bell, law without law, Leggett-Garg's inequalities, Leggett's inequalities, local causality, local hidden variables, local realism, locality, macro-realism, Nicolas Gisin, non-determinism, non-locality, non-realism, non-separability, oneness, participatory universe, past history creation, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, quantum theory, randomness, realism, relativistic local causality, Scott Aaronson, self-determination, space-time, spooky action, spooky action at a distance, superdeterminism, time, universe as a self-excited circuit, violation Bell's inequalities
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: abstraction, allan wallace, atheism, Casimir Effect, conceptual, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, dualism, eliminative materialism, emergence, empiricism, idealism, illusory, laws of physics, mainstream science, Mary Douglass, measurement, modern science, natural, naturalism, Nikola Tesla, Noam Chomsky, non-physical, ontological, Patricia Churchland, physicalism, physics, quantum wave function, real, reductionism, reductive physicalism, scientific method, scope of science, supernatural, supervenience physicalism, theoretical physics, Thomas Kuhn, Tom Campbell, unobservable, vacumm, virtual particles, wave packet, what is physical?, zero point energy, zero point field
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 –…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: actuality, Bernard d'Espagnat, buddhism, consciousnes, creation, dark energy, dark matter, Einstein, emptiness, energy-time, general relativity, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, matter, measurement, mind, no-thing-ness, nothingness, observation, physical, potentiality, probability, quantum field theory, quantum physics, quantum tunnelling, Sean Carroll, something from nothing, special relativity, string theory, uncertainty principle, vacuum, virtual particles, wave-particle duality, Werner Heisenberg
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Ayahuasca, close-minded, Comedy, Dean Radin, Deepak Chopra, DMT, dogmatism, ESP, extra sensory perception, Graham Hancock, holism, James Randi, materialism, meme, Morphic Resonance, N'kisi the psychic parrot, new paradigm, Oh Long Johnson cat, open-minded, paranormal, parapsychology, pseudo-science, psi, psilocybin, psychedelics, psychic, Rage Guy, reductionism, Richard Dawkins, Rupert Sheldrake, Satire, scepticism, Science, skepticism, TED, telepathy, Terence McKenna, Thomas Kuhn, Wikipedia, woo
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…
Posted in Videos Tagged with: Alan Watts, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, altered states of consciousness, awareness, awareness of change, becoming one with Cosmos, becoming one with others, belief system, belief-blindness, Bernard d'Espagnat, bottom-up, BS, Cartesian dualism, classical physics, clockwork universe, cogito ergo sum, complex systems, complexity, confusing map with the territory, conscious, consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, David Bohm, determinism, differentiation, dogma, dogmatic world view, Doors of Perception, downward causation, dream vs reality, ego, egoic self, environment, Erwin Schrödinger, ESP, expansion of awareness, extra sensory perception, feeling of separateness, founders of quantum theory, free will, free will an illusion?, holism, hologram, I-am-ness, implicate order, information, inner vs outer, inner world of experience, integrated information, introspection, John Archibald Wheeler, Jung, life, local realism, localisation of awareness, Louis de Broglie, lucid dreaming, lucid dreams, material objects, materialism, materialist-reductionist paradigm, Max Born, Max Planck, mechanism, mechanistic world view, meditation, meditative states, mind and matter, mystical experience, nature of the Self, near death experiences, Newtonian paradigm, Niels Bohr, non-linear systems, objectivity vs subjectivity, objects and subjects, observer and observed, open minded scepticism, out of body experiences, outdated maps of the world, outdated world view, participatory universe, parts vs wholes, Paul Davies, Pauli effect, personal agency, personal experience, psychedelics, psychophysical organism, qualia, quantum physics, reality tunnel, reductionism, religious experience, Richard Feynman, Robert Anton Wilson, simulation, space-time, status quo, stuff dreams are made of, subjective experience, things-in-themselves, time, top-down, unconscious, unified wholeness, virtual reality, waking awareness, waking life, Werner Heisenberg, what if life is a dream?, who am I?, who is the dreamer?, wholeness, Wolfgang Pauli
