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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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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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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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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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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