The Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal is an objection to the Doomsday argument (that there is only a 5% chance of more than twenty times the historic number of humans ever being born) by arguing that the chance of being born is not one, but is an increasing function of the number of people who will be born. (Wikipedia).
Martin Rees - What is the Doomsday Argument?
The Copernican Principle asserts that humans are not special, that we should expect to find ourselves in an ordinary place or position. But if humanity continues for billions of years, we today would find ourselves extraordinarily early in human history. Click here to watch more interview
From playlist Closer To Truth - Martin Rees Interviews
Thalia Wheatley - What is Self-Awareness?
'Self awareness' has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the mental process of being aware of oneself being aware. Is self-awareness a uniquely human trait? Some animals seem to disagree. The deep significance of self-awareness is how on earth can physica
From playlist Is Your 'Self' Just an Illusion? - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
One of the most useful realisations we might come to about ourselves is that we are ‘paranoid.’ Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: https://bit.ly/3HpVdSa For books and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: http
From playlist SELF
Elizabeth Loftus - What is Self-Awareness?
'Self awareness' has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the mental process of being aware of oneself being aware. Is self-awareness a uniquely human trait? Some animals seem to disagree. The deep significance of self-awareness is how on earth can physica
From playlist Is Your 'Self' Just an Illusion? - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Eric Schwitzgebel - What is Self Awareness?
'Self awareness' has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the mental process of being aware of oneself being aware. Is self-awareness a uniquely human trait? Some animals seem to disagree. The deep significance of self-awareness is how on earth can physica
From playlist Is Your 'Self' Just an Illusion? - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
A particularly awful aspect of self-hatred is that we may not even be aware that we are suffering from it. Here is a list of questions to help us diagnose an absence of self-compassion. Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with us: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com
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Roy Baumeister - What is Self-Awareness?
'Self awareness' has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the mental process of being aware of oneself being aware. Is self-awareness a uniquely human trait? Some animals seem to disagree. The deep significance of self-awareness is how on earth can physica
From playlist Is Your 'Self' Just an Illusion? - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Narcissism is the word we routinely use to describe someone self-satisfied and arrogant. But what do we really mean by the word – and are we applying it correctly? If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): https://goo.gl/YfXSQO Join our mailing list: http://bit.ly
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From playlist Understanding The Anthropic Principle
Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has worked on fascinating and important ideas in existential risks, simulation hypothesis, human enhancement ethics, and the risks of superintelligent AI systems, including in his
From playlist AI talks
When Will We All Die?: The Statistics of Human Extinction
Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming The Joy of Chance. Use the promo code ‘scishow’ during the sign-up process to get your first 30 days free. We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has
From playlist Uploads
What is the Doomsday Argument? | Episode 1602 | Closer To Truth
Have we underestimated the risks of global catastrophe and human extinction? There is an odd argument that claims to justify End of the World worries with raw statistics. Featuring interviews with John Leslie, J. Richard Gott III, Nick Bostrom, and Martin Rees. Season 16, Episode 2 - #Clo
From playlist Closer To Truth | Season 16
Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
Thanks to Brilliant for supporting PBS. Learn more at: https://brilliant.org/spacetime PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE What if every single black hole that formed in our universe sparked the big bang of a
From playlist Space Time!
Determinism & Human Action (Ernest Nagel 1964)
Dr. Ernest Nagel gives a 1964 talk in which he argues that there is no incompatibility between free will and causal determinism. He works through a number of common objections to the compatibility human agency and determinism and defends against misconceptions of determinism by drawing on
From playlist Free Will, Determinism, & Action
Gadamer on Hegel: Self-Consciousness
Gadamer discusses Hegel's account of self-consciousness. Among other things, he touches on Hegel's master-slave dialectic. The translation is my own. This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. Details will be added at a later date. More Gadamer: https://www.youtube.com/play
From playlist Gadamer
Stanford Engineering Hero Martin Hellman Lecture
Engineering Hero Martin Hellman talks about "The Wisdom of Foolishness" and how it led him (and two colleagues) to create public key cryptography in the 1970s and several other major life accomplishments.
From playlist Stanford Engineering Hero Lectures
Martin Hellman: The Wisdom of Foolishness
Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture When Martin Hellman started working in cryptography in the early 1970s, his colleagues told him he was crazy to do so; he couldn't possibly compete with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its enormous budget. He was also warned that if he did acco
From playlist Stanford Engineering Hero Lectures
Religion and the Practice of American Parenting
We live in an age where there seems to be no higher moral imperatives than those associated with parenting. At the same time that there has been a decline in religious orthodoxy, the expectations of what it means to be a parent have become more orthodox. Not that more parents are religious
From playlist In The Company Of Scholars
Self-assessment: student attitudes and accuracy in criteria based assessment (presentation)
Self-assessment: student attitudes and accuracy in criteria based assessment (presentation)
From playlist Business eLearning Showcase 2015
The Authoritative Weight of Non-Definitive Magisterial Teaching by Lawrence Jerome King (Part 3)
A guest reading by Riverrun. Text: https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40891/datastream/PDF/view
From playlist Authentic Non-Infallible Magisterium