Barry Belmont
This is from the 2005 Skeptics Conference where leading scientists discuss issues that strike at the very heart of the matter, our brains. Topics range from morality to evolution to consciousness to life after death. It’s an absolutely amazing collection of lectures.
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Put a condom on him, skeptic here. Blathering!
Barf!
way to fast for me. slow down please
Michael Shermer has the personality of an awkward teen, what a horrible intro to such an excellent speaker/lecture.
Boo the Kansas joke!
Otherwise excellent 🙂
This talk is excellent.
01:05: "Ph.D. from the Max-Planck-Institute … in Tübindschen" – now that's really unique!
I think the Integrated Theory of Information of Giulio Tononi explains a possible way consciousness could emerge from low level information. ( watch?v=AgQgfb-HkQk )
The matter in our brain is just plain matter. Just the same stuff we find in rocks and space dust. It is nothing special, thus, there must be some emergent new property. An emergent property is not something that can be explained based on the knowledge of the behavior of the low level components (neurons here).
We're still so far off. So, a neuron fires – so what? How does that translate into our subjectivity? I wonder if we will ever know.
Wow! I really like this lecture. Excellent information on the visual systems and the brain.