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.
Q&A with a person who does not have an internal monologue
A student interviews Kirsten Carlson, who does not have an internal monologue, and she answers questions about how she thinks.
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking | Daniel Dennett | Talks at Google
Philosopher Daniel Dennett visits Google to discuss his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, describing thought experiments and thinking tools across psychology, biology, computer science and physics.
Does the language you speak change how you think?
Tom Scott, with linguists Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl, examines whether the language you speak changes how you think.
Mike Levin - Live ALife 2020 Keynote - Robot Cancer
Michael Levin's keynote at the ALife 2020 conference, 'Robot Cancer', on how bioelectric signaling in embryogenesis and regeneration informs unconventional computing, cognition and the 'software of life'.
DMTx Breakthrough Panel Moderated By Graham Hancock, Dr. Andrew Gallimore & Dr. Rick Strassman
A roughly two and a half hour Noonautics panel on DMT research moderated by Graham Hancock with Andrew Gallimore and Rick Strassman.
Orwell comes to america - clip - reason 1
A short clip, titled Orwell Comes to America, on reasoning and perception.
Westworld - Consciousness does not exist, Anthony Hopkins
A two-minute Westworld scene in which Robert Ford and Bernard Lowe discuss whether consciousness exists.
Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think?
An excerpt of Richard Feynman's 1985 lecture Q&A about whether machines can think.
Optical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto
Neuroscientist Beau Lotto runs the audience through color and pattern illusions to show that perception is shaped by context and evolutionary history rather than being a direct readout of the world.
Is the Universe a Simulation? | 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
The 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, in which a panel of physicists and philosophers debates whether the universe is a simulation.
Tool-Making Crows
A one-minute clip of the New Caledonian crow Betty bending a straight wire into a hook to retrieve food from a tube.
Westworld — If you can't tell, does it matter?
A very short clip from the TV series Westworld about whether it matters if you cannot tell a human from an artificial being.