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Sapolsky vs Sartre The free will debate is not over

Sapolsky vs Sartre: The free will debate is not over

HowTheLightGetsIn debates this weekend

Omari Edwards
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the marketplace of ideas should embrace irrationality

The marketplace of ideas must embrace the irrational

How embracing the irrational can save our politics

Charlie Barnett
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No one escapes their perspective

Jason Blakely on Truth, Tradition, and Dialogue

Jason Blakely
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consciousness reveals the disunity of reality

Consciousness reveals there's no single objective world

Science as we know it won’t explain consciousness

Christian List
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Annaka Harris Consciousness all the way down

Annaka Harris: Consciousness is fundamental

What physics shows us about consciousness

Annaka Harris
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Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves

Genetic code isn't just hereditary

Anna M. Hennessey
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Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Quantum mechanics and the organic light of consciousness

Stuart Hameroff
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Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved

The sooner we acknowledge it, the sooner we’ll solve the hard problem of consciousness

Bernardo Kastrup
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Consciousness came before life

The fundamental cause of evolution

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Consciousness does not require a self

The self is a prediction of the brain

James Cooke
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Why There Is No Self: A Buddhist View for the West

Rid yourself of the myths that you live by.

Jay Garfield
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Consciousness may not require a brain

Are plants conscious?

Annaka Harris
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Wittgenstein vs Dawkins: Is God a scientific hypothesis?

Religious language is not scientific language

John Cottingham
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Memory creates reality and the self

What Alzheimer's reveals about identity

Michael Hornberger
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You are both one self and many selves

Inner conflict and psychological democracy

Luke Roelofs
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How to create a consciousness test

AI and The Consciousness Test

R. D. Hinshelwood
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Freud vs Jung: Trauma extends beyond the self

The self is political

Andrew Samuels
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The plurality of the self

Why you have more than one self

Jonardon Ganeri
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Emotions run deeper than reason

Countering the bliss of ignorance

Mark Lilla
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Consciousness, Gödel, and the incompleteness of science

A self-referential problem

Erik Hoel
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Life doesn't have to be biological

No one has a good understanding of what 'life' is

Sara Walker
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Psychedelics and existential insight

Nietzsche, Whitehead, and psychedelic philosophy

Sam Woolfe
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Penrose vs Harris vs Scott: Are there multiple selves?

Debating the divided self

Nina Lyon
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Consciousness is a window onto a deeper reality

Mystical insights are beyond knowledge

James Cooke
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