Alan Watts’s impact on the world continues to reverberate. His teachings remind us about our potential connection to everything we love, hate, and don’t care about, as well as our foolishness in thinking we know enough to take anything, including his ideas, too seriously. Shop Pursuit of Wonder merch here: […]
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Thank you to The Great Courses Plus for sponsoring this video. Signup for your free trial with them today at: http://ow.ly/SdyV30reUhg Somewhere inside your experience of this video is one of humanity’s greatest remaining mysteries. Something that is so close to you, yet so far from any conceivable understanding. New […]
Professor Tallis—a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, retired medical physician and clinical neuroscientist—discusses the relationship between mind and brain, as well as the big questions about the nature of reality. Copyright © 2022 by Essentia Foundation. All rights reserved. https://www.essentiafoundation.org 00:00:13 Discussion about metaphysical stance 00:01:40 “I can’t know, so […]
Prof. Donald Hoffman talks to Essentia Foundation’s Hans Busstra about his theory of conscious agents, according to which space and time are cognitive constructs in consciousness, not an objective scaffolding of the world outside. The interview also touches on Prof. Hoffman’s personal history and life, bringing the warmth of his […]
