Cognitive Biases 101, with Peter Baumann New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- How much does cognitive bias change people’s perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different. And so would many major orchestras, who […]
Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one’s ego. Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The […]
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Superhumans: The remarkable brain waves of high-level meditators Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think+ for exclusive videos: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- People who have meditated for thousands of hours exhibit a remarkable difference in their brainwaves. Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman says we can actually see what […]
Sources and link to book by Rupert Glasgow: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-consciousness Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware. This video was made possible by […]
In the third presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Prof. dr. Heleen Slagter, Principal Investigator of the Cognition & Plasticity Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, talks about the predictive mind: the ability of our cognitive systems to not only perceive the world, but also infer what the […]
In the second presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Prof. dr. Henk Barendregt brings the rigor of mathematical logic to our understanding of consciousness and its various states and manifestations. For good measure, he also discusses Vipassana meditation within this formal context. More information: https://www.essentiafoundation.org The ‘Science of […]
In the fourth presentation of the ‘Science of Consciousness’ conference 2021, Dr. Steve Taylor introduces the ontology of panspiritism, according to which ‘spirit,’ a form of consciousness that pervades and infuses all nature, becomes canalized into individual conscious beings. More information: https://www.essentiafoundation.org The ‘Science of consciousness’ conference, 2021: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/debating/announcing-the-science-of-consciousness-online-conference-2021/ Copyright […]
Humans are the only Earthlings with complex language. But at what cost was that ability acquired? In this episode, I visit Tetsuro Matsuzawa to learn about his influential cognitive tradeoff hypothesis. Available with YouTube Premium – https://www.youtube.com/premium/originals. To see if Premium is available in your country, click here: https://goo.gl/A3HtfP
Closing the first day of the 2021 ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conference, dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Prof. dr. Heleen Slagter, Dr. Steve Taylor and Prof. dr. Henk Barendregt take questions and debate. More information: https://www.essentiafoundation.org The ‘Science of consciousness’ conference, 2021: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/debating/announcing-the-science-of-consciousness-online-conference-2021/ Copyright © 2021 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved. […]
