“Does the moon also fall?”
The Physics of Everything with Michio Kaku
Category: Science
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Rupert Sheldrake – The Science Delusion
Impressive talk by Rupert Sheldrake everyone needs to hear. – Banned TED Talk discussion
Knowledge is power
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Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness
Incredible presentation by Graham Hancock at TEDxWhitechapel – Banned TED Talk discussion
There’s a war on for your mind
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David Icke – Crazy People
David Icke along with Alan Watts, Carl Sagan, Krishnamurti, Bill Hicks & John Lennon
We need a “Revolution of Perception”
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Donald Duck – Mathmagic Land
Through this journey, Donald shows us how mathematics is not just numbers and charts, but magical living things.
– Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)“The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject.”
– Walt Disney
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John Hagelin – Consciousness
“It’s important to recognize that our body is really the product of our thoughts. We’re beginning to understand, in medical science, the degree to which the nature of thoughts and emotions actually determines the physical substance and structure and function of our bodies.”
– John Hagelin
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V.S. Ramachandran – Consciousness, Qualia & Self
“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organized structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or “neurons” which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe.”
– Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Daniel Dennett – Consciousness
“If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?”
“There is no single, definitive ‘stream of consciousness,’ because there is no central Headquarters, no Cartesian Theater where ‘it all comes together’ for the perusal of a Central Meaner.”
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Michio Kaku – Will Mankind Destroy Itself?
“It’s humbling to realize that the developmental gulf between a minuscule ant colony and our modern human civilization is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilization – a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilization would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.”
– Michio Kaku
