Ever been stuck at a party where you’ve made all the small talk, eaten all the snacks, and heard every story twice… except you literally can’t leave? You’re trapped forever, surrounded by the exact same conversations, while everyone else comes and goes. At first, it’s just boring… but as the […]
Julia Galef: The Sunk Costs Fallacy Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think+ for exclusive videos: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- The sunk cost fallacy means making a choice not based on what outcome you think is going to be the best going forward but instead based on a […]
How Does the Brain Store Beliefs? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- What if beliefs could be surgically inserted into a patient’s brain? This is the basis of one of philosopher Daniel Dennett’s thought experiments in exploration of how […]
Daniel Dennett: An Introduction to Intuition Pumps New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- The human brain works in a pretty specific way, and a lot of those ways haven’t changed over the years. Specifically, in the way […]
Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. In this 1983 interview with Richard Feynman, we find out why… or not. Full original interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ww1IXRfTA This video is transformative in nature and is intended for educational purposes. Therefore, it falls under fair use.
Get your first box for just $1.49 per meal by going to https://www.everyplate.com/ and entering the code aperture149. Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/thought-experiments-no-one-can-solve Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch This is a thought experiment. It uses a hypothetical and oftentimes somewhat ridiculous situation to help get us to the core of a deeper philosophical or […]
New Pursuit of Wonder book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D4VSD88 We are accustom to stories, jokes, ideas, riddles, etc. that have answers or conclusions. Things we can walk away with and hold on to. In Zen, however, there is a riddle that goes the other way. A riddle that self-destructs itself and denies you […]
Shop Pursuit of Wonder merch here: https://www.pursuitofwonder.com/store We know that blue things are blue, painful things are painful, and happy things are happy. But what do these things look and feel like for other people? And can we ever know for sure? In this video, we reference and interpret Ludwig […]
New Pursuit of Wonder book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08D4VSD88 “The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.” – Arthur Schopenhauer. In this video, we explore the paradoxical idea of how wanting happiness may not be the best way of finding it. If you are interested […]
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