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Who — or what — really controls your mind?
Human thinking is antiquated.
Philosophers, theoretical physicists, psychologists, and others consider what or who is really in control.
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If the "self" is not real, then we are slaves to a billiard ball universe, trapped in a nihilistic nightmare in which we cannot change our fate.
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.
From "Thompson's violinist" to the "Experience Machine," these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don't know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Spirituality can be an uncomfortable word for atheists. But does it deserve the antagonism that it gets?
The world is changing, and technology is driving that change. Today, that observation is about as compelling as the insight that water runs downhill. It’s just what technology (and water) […]
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
Having helped transform how creative work is financed, Yancey Strickler has moved on from Kickstarter, the company he co-founded toward a kind of values reset that moves us away from a narrow, unsustainable, inhumane obsession with profit at all costs.
Quick! There’s a runaway train on the tracks. Some dastardly evildoer has knocked the driver out cold and tied five people to the tracks ahead. The train is barreling down […]
content.jwplatform.com George Rupp Introduces His Book ‘Globalization Challenged’ Refugee expert George Rupp shifts our view of globalization away from the … content.jwplatform.com Daniel Dennett Explores Darwinism and Outer Space Daniel […]
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Going mad with Christmas cheer? Try one of these alternatives.
From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.
Atheism has been called many things over the years. Is it a cult, and what is a cult anyway?
The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 23 brand new videos! The experts featured below are diverse in both their backgrounds and skill sets, ranging from a theoretical physicist […]
The deepest, funniest, weirdest moments from the past year of the Think Again podcast. Featuring Daniel Dennett, Sarah Goldhagen, Ian McEwan, Alison Gopnik, Erik Kandel, and Alan Alda.
Philosopher Daniel Dennett believes AI should never become conscious — and no, it's not because of the robopocalypse.
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At some point in life, you've probably asked yourself how in-control of your own actions you are. Could you have stopped yourself from eating that extra morsel? In other words, do you have free will?
Philosophers David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett argue over “philosophical zombies,” created to question the nature of human consciousness.
While it's reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.
The human mind is like a Turing machine, says Daniel Dennett. It's made up of unthinking cogs – but when combined in the right order, their motion gives rise to consciousness.
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We are what we are because of genes; we are who we are because of memes. Philosopher Daniel Dennett muses on an idea put forward by Richard Dawkins in 1976.
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Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Philosopher of mind Daniel Dennett waxing wise and wicked on consciousness, dolphins, and more.