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Feb. 26, 2022

Can We Find Purpose Without God? Why We Care Even if the Universe Doesn't | Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada and a psycho-oncology consultant at the Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. Dr. Lewis writes a popular and widely praised blog series,…

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Feb. 16, 2022

Is Science Limited? Understanding Normativity & Moving Away from Scientism | Menachem Fisch

Menachem Fisch is Joseph and Ceil Mazer Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Center for Religious and Interreligious Studies at Tel Aviv University, and Senior Fellow of the Goethe University Frankfurt's Forschungskolleg Humanwisseschaften, Bad Homburg. He has published widely on the history of 19th…

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Feb. 13, 2022

What are "Other" Minds? Neuroevoloution of Past, Present & Future Minds | Risto Miikkulainen

Risto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and AVP of Evolutionary Intelligence at Cognizant AI Labs. He received an M.S. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in…

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Feb. 10, 2022

Are We Destined for Freedom? A Case for Compatibilism & Ontological Agnosticism | Raymond Tallis

Raymond Tallis is Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. He is a philosopher, poet, novelist, cultural critic, and a retired physician and clinical neuroscientist. He trained in medicine at Oxford University and at St Thomas’ in London and has 4 honorary degrees: DLitt (Hull, 1997) and…

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Aug. 9, 2021

Why did Consciousness Evolve? Evolution of Sentience & Phenomenal Surrealism | Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Humphrey is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, New College of the Humanities, & Senior Member, Darwin College, Cambridge. He has been Lecturer in Psychology at Oxford, Assistant Director of the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour at Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow in Parapsychology at…

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Aug. 2, 2021

Is Consciousness an Illusion? Illusionism & its Ethical Implications | Keith Frankish

Keith Frankish is a Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, a Visiting Research Fellow at The Open University, & an Adjunct Professor with the Brain & Mind Programme in Neurosciences at the University of Crete. He is the author of "Mind and Supermind" & "Consciousness", as well…

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July 25, 2021

How Do Brains Work? How Emotions are Made & the Derivation of Meaning | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and is among the top one percent most cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science…

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July 12, 2021

Rethinking Consciousness? Attention Schema Theory & the Science of Subjectivity | Michael Graziano

Michael Graziano is a scientist and novelist who is currently a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. He’s a best-selling author and has written several books including “Consciousness and the Social Brain”, “Re-thinking Consciousness”, “The Spaces Between Us”, and much more. His scientific research at Graziano Lab focuses…

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