The limits of knowledge | Rupert Sheldrake, S...

Nadine Dijkstra is a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Neurology at UCL. Her research in Imaging Neuroscience explores how the brain generates mental images and differentiates them from actual perception. Utilizing neuroimaging, psychophysics, machine learning, and compu ...  Show more

Is the brain actually productive? Or is it instead permissive, simply acting as a filter through which consciousness passes? Can near death experiences help us to get closer to understanding the true nature of the brain?Neuroscientist and theoretical physicist Àlex Gómez-Marín ar ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Kant’s views on the limits of human knowledge. First, we ask ourselves why we seek knowledge at all and whether there will ever be an endpoint to our search for it. Next, we discuss our human experience of the world in contrast to the wo ...  Show more

"أنا أفكر إذًا أنا موجود"~ René Descartesالشك لا يمكن أن يكون أساس المعرفة يناقش وسيم ورفيق رغبة البشر في "اليقينية"، متناولين👇- فلسفة ديكارت في المعرفة وتأثيرها عبر العصور المختلفة- التمييز بين الإثبات والدليلالإثبات👈 في مجال الرياضيات والمنطق المُجرد فقط - تثبت نظرية بما لا ي ...  Show more

Sam Harris revisits the central argument he made in his book, The Moral Landscape, about the reality of moral truth. He discusses the way concepts like "good" and "evil" can be thought about objectively, the primacy of our intuiti ...

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about the widespread belief in free will. They discuss the limits of intuition, the views of Dan Dennett, complexity and emergence, downward causation, abstraction, epigenetics, predictability, fatalism, Benjamin Libet, the primacy of luc ...