What Does It Mean To Be An Alpha Male? – How The Role Of Alpha Has Changed Over Time
It is not who you can control outside of yourself, but what you can control inside yourself that makes someone a strong archetypal leader.
It is not who you can control outside of yourself, but what you can control inside yourself that makes someone a strong archetypal leader.
Alva Noë: You Are Not Your Brain Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- We’ve been looking for consciousness in all the wrong places, explains writer and philosopher Alva Noë. ———————————————————————————- Alva Noë: Alva Noë is a writer and a […]
Time perception, the block universe, consciousness, relativity, free will, reality and perception all collide in this video. We live as if time moves. The past feels fixed, the present feels special, and the future feels open. But some interpretations of modern physics — especially those rooted in Einstein’s theory of […]
Robert Thurman: Love Your Enemy Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Lovingkindness, Thurman says, is not an abstract idea but rater a practice that allows us to appreciate that everyone, including our enemies, want to be happy. And so […]
How do ordinary atoms become “you”? Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Literally. Your body is built from the most common materials in the universe: air, water, carbon, calcium, a trace of iron, zinc, phosphorus, sulfur. Nothing “special” on the list. No miracle ingredient. And yet this same mundane inventory produces pain, […]
Ray Kurzweil: Your Thoughts Create Your Brain Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- The basic technologies to enable us to look inside the brain and see its functioning are growing exponentially. And they’re at a point now where we […]
On Today’s Episode: Is your ultimate goal about how much money you earn? Is it about the lifestyle you provide for yourself and your family? In the grand scheme of things we know that money doesn’t bring you joy, and it is far better to chase fulfillment and joy, and […]
Michio Kaku on the Evolution of Intelligence New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Michio Kaku on the evolution of intelligence. ———————————————————————————- MICHIO KAKU: Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of […]
A provoking exert from a Terence McKenna lecture. In which, McKenna discusses the potential dangers of ideology and the pitfalls to humanity’s conception that there is an ultimate reality to be uncovered. Perhaps the ultimate truth we are in such desperate pursuit for is not even the point at all. […]
Michio Kaku on the Science of Dreams New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Michio Kaku describes how our prefrontal cortex disengages as we dream, thus suppressing the fact-checking component of our consciousness. ———————————————————————————- MICHIO KAKU: Dr. Michio […]