Alva Noë - Is Consciousness an Illusion?
Is consciousness something special in the universe, its own category, irreducible to physical laws, a carrier of meaning and purpose? Or is consciousness a mere artifact of the brain, a by-product of evolution, a superstition exaggerated by human misperception? If you think or hope consciousness is special, then you should surely be a skeptic. Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq For more videos and information from Alva Noë click here: http://bit.ly/1DvCe5u For more vides on the mysteries of the mind, click here: http://bit.ly/1DvIha9

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Raymond Kurzweil - Is Consciousness an Illusion?

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Antonio Damasio | Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

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How do you explain consciousness? | David Chalmers

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Roger Penrose: "My Crazy Idea That Explains the Universe"

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The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life | Sean Carroll

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The (Simple) Theory That Explains Everything | Neil Turok

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The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist

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Can Dualism Explain Consciousness? | Episode 1512 | Closer To Truth

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Giulio Tononi - Why is Consciousness so Baffling?

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The Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo Rovelli

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Marvin Minsky - Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?

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The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets | The Ezra Klein Show

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Consciousness is a mathematical pattern: Max Tegmark at TEDxCambridge 2014

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