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Cosmic Consciousness Test: Deepak Chopra or Erwin Schrödinger?
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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…
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…
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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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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…
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
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
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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