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Athene's Theory of Everything |
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Chiren Boumaaza, aka Athene, is an extravagant Internet celebrity, with over 240 million upload views, and a professional gamer.
If you haven’t heard of him, he’s a record holder in World of Warcraft and online poker, and plays the main character in a series of videos on a popular YouTube channel
Date: 2012-07-07 17:23:25
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Antonio Damasio (TED): The quest to understand consciousness |
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Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self.
Date: 2011-12-26 19:52:23
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Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception excerpt |
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Excerpt from Huxley's The Doors of Perception (1954), reprinted in Robert Ornstein's The Psychology of Consciousness (1972) and The Nature of Human Consciousness (1973)
Date: 2011-10-14 02:54:23
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Documentary: The Secret You (Horizon) |
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With the help of a hammer-wielding scientist, Jennifer Aniston and a general anesthetic, Professor Marcus du Sautoy goes in search of answers to one of science's greatest mysteries: how do we know who we are? While the thoughts that make us feel as though we know ourselves are easy to experience, th...
Date: 2011-09-17 15:27:15
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