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

An individual "is responsible for everything he does," claimed Sartre. And from criminal justice to creative expression, free will and responsibility are central to our culture and our personal lives. Yet neuroscientists and materialist thinkers commonly maintain that freedom is ...  Show more

Are we living in the moment? Are we really free? How can we transcend the constant anxieties of our mind? Throughout history, certain people in the West and the East have claimed that the human mind could reach states of so-called higher consciousness. In the twentieth century, s ...  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 ...