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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
youtube.comTwo Astrophysicists Debate Free Will
youtube.comThe danger of reductionist scientific narratives causing existential distress and the responsibility scientists have in their storytelling.
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I receive pretty much daily emails from people who say things like, I've read your paper. I now understand that I'm a collective of cells and furthermore a self-constructing or whatever. And I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm depressed.
I think we have to come to grips with the fact that some people
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Human value stems from individual differences, rooted in the unique, historical ability of hominids to generate explanatory knowledge.
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How did humans start generating knowledge and why has no other species been capable of doing that? We are today the only species that can do that, but we haven't always been, since we know that previous species like Homo erectus and the Neanderthals must have had the same ability because they made technology that seems impossible to have created
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