Part 3 – Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms – Transcending Stuff to Know Stuff Can stepping out of reductionist materialism shed some new light on the hard problem of consciousness and the measurement problem? How can Gödel's way of thinking help…
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(3) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
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Mind, Matter & Mystery at Hay Festival
Mind, Matter & Mystery at Hay Festival – Meeting Rupert Sheldrake "In a largely secular age it is easy to suppose we live in a purely material universe. Yet our thoughts, memories and experience – from the brilliance of a sunset…
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Cosmic Consciousness Test: Deepak Chopra or Erwin Schrödinger?
NOTE: I would not have been able to create this video without the incredible talent of all the artists who did all the (absolutely amazing!) celebrity impressions. I am forever grateful to all of them. Please check the credits section…
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(2) Gödel, Self-Knowledge & Magic Mushrooms
Full script: Introduction: Well, part two of this series is now finished and uploaded. I really hope you like it. Let me take this opportunity to thank all my patrons. Without you, I would not be able to continue working…
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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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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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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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The Clockwork Universe
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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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…
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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…
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