PickVidsBest Consciousness & cognition Videos
The 60 Consciousness & cognition videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 16 intermediate, 39 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Lex Fridman, The Royal Institution.
George Lakoff: Moral Politics
Cognitive scientist George Lakoff lectures on how political debates are framed through language and metaphors tied to values, and on the moral worldviews behind progressive and conservative politics.
What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018
Michael Levin's NeurIPS 2018 talk on bioelectric computation outside the nervous system, showing how cell electrical networks shape development and regeneration.
Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Douglas Hofstadter's Stanford Presidential Lecture argues that analogy is the core of cognition, illustrating how concepts, categorization and thought arise from analogy-making.
The Egg - A Short Story
Kurzgesagt animates Andy Weir's short story The Egg, in which a person learns that they are every human who has ever lived.
Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction
The first episode of John Vervaeke's lecture series on the modern meaning crisis, tracing its history through philosophy, cognitive science, religion and psychology.
You Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Stranger
CGP Grey explains split-brain patients, where severing the corpus callosum lets the two hemispheres act independently.
Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]
The full 1971 Dutch television debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on human nature, with subtitles.
Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101
Lex Fridman has a three-hour conversation with Joscha Bach about artificial consciousness, the workings of the mind, intelligence and the possibly simulated nature of reality.
The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth
Neuroscientist Anil Seth gives a Royal Institution lecture on the science of consciousness.
Feynman: How to think 1 of 2 FUN TO IMAGINE 11
An excerpt from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman describes how he and a mathematician friend counted in their heads in different ways, one verbally and one visually.
If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett's Royal Institution lecture on whether the brain is a computer and where its software comes from.
Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research
Curt Jaimungal interviews biologist Michael Levin of Tufts about consciousness, bioelectricity, emergence, and cancer research.
Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
A NOVA documentary with neuroscientist Heather Berlin exploring the subconscious and what drives our decisions.
Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system
A short edited excerpt of Terence McKenna arguing that culture acts as an operating system for the mind, set to imagery and music.
Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn
Moral philosopher James Flynn explains the Flynn effect, the steady rise of IQ scores across the 20th century.
Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett gives a Royal Institution talk toward a unified theory of information, tying together evolution, learning and engineering.
Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
A 2017 documentary filmed at the Santa Fe Institute in which novelist Cormac McCarthy talks with SFI's David Krakauer.
My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED
Neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor describes watching her own brain functions shut down during a massive stroke.
Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269
Lex Fridman interviews University of Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin about the origin of life, aliens, complexity and consciousness.
RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain
An RSA Animate summary of Iain McGilchrist's lecture on the divided brain, arguing the brain's two hemispheres attend to the world differently and that this has shaped culture and society.
35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
Joscha Bach's 35C3 talk offers an AI perspective on the soul, covering perception, mental representation, agency, consciousness and selfhood as things that can arise in a computational system like the brain.
Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues in this TED talk that evolution shaped perception to track fitness rather than truth.
How did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey
A Royal Institution lecture in which Nicholas Humphrey presents his theory of phenomenal consciousness and its evolution.
Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips
Clip from Lex Fridman's podcast with Roger Penrose in which Penrose argues that consciousness is not a computation.