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Richard Haier: What Brain Scans Reveal About Human Intelligence Oct 09, 2020

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Richard Haier reveals how brain efficiency correlates with IQ and explains the controversial g-factor of intelligence They examine controversies such as The Bell Curve, discuss genetic and environmental influences, and explore interventions from brain training to neuromodulation.
- 0:00:00 - Intro and book overview
- 0:02:50 - Bell Curve controversy
- 0:06:26 - Brain efficiency hypothesis
- 0:16:06 - Stigma, race and IQ
- 0:21:31 - IQ and morality
- 0:22:27 - IQ vs g‑factor vs intelligence
- 0:23:46 - Chronometry ratio scale
- 0:26:38 - Low IQ as societal problem
- 0:29:04 - Genetics and interventions
- 0:31:18 - Brain training and nootropics
- 0:31:55 - Dual n‑back
- 0:33:17 - TDCS, PEMF and EM‑stimulation
- 0:36:01 - Parietofrontal integration theory
- 0:46:50 - IQ correlates with life outcomes
- 0:47:47 - Character and morality tests
- 0:49:16 - RAPM test demo
- 0:53:24 - Path length between regions
- 0:57:36 - Finn et al 2015 study
- 1:04:12 - IQ genes probabilistic
- 1:05:14 - Children IQ vs parents
- 1:06:46 - Brain damage and savantism
- 1:08:34 - Openness and intelligence
- 1:09:40 - LSD trips and intelligence
- 1:11:01 - IQ and happiness
- 1:11:53 - Flynn effect limits
- 1:15:26 - Factors that decrease IQ
- 1:16:59 - IQ and consciousness
- 1:22:00 - Mindfulness meditation
- 1:23:27 - Joscha Bach on intelligence
- 1:24:26 - Eric Weinstein on intelligence
- 1:27:16 - Elon Musk Neurolink
- 1:27:57 - AI and IQ tests for computers
- 1:31:14 - Finding g‑factor in animals
- 1:32:55 - What separates humans
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Joscha Bach: Why Consciousness Is Computation All the Way Down Oct 07, 2020

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Joscha Bach explores the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and reality, tackling questions from the definition of truth to the existence of free will. He contrasts various theories of consciousness, discusses the role of art and society, and presents his own model of control, attention, and reflective recall.
0:00 Introduction
0:17 Work ethic and daily routine
1:35 Definition of truth
4:41 Quantum graph as nature's substratum
6:25 Mathematics as language descriptor
13:52 Constructivist mathematics and reality
17:06 Meaning of existence and pi
20:14 Something vs nothing, existence default
21:11 Bach's model vs multiverse
26:51 Is the universe deterministic
28:23 Determining initial conditions and rules
30:55 Nature of time, fundamental?
34:21 Optimal algorithm for finding truth
40:40 Simplicity of fundamental laws
50:17 Art and the artist's cost function
54:02 Ideas as stories driven by intuitions
58:00 Society's minimal role in training intuitions
59:24 Art under repressive government
1:04 01 Market case for civil rights
1:06 40 Fascism vs communism
1:10 50 Control/attention/reflective recall model
1:13 32 Consciousness vs attention
1:16 02 Chinese Room experiment
1:25 22 Understanding predicated on consciousness
1:26 22 Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
1:30 15 Donald Hoffman's consciousness theory
1:32 40 Hofstadter's strange loop theory
1:34 10 Holonomic brain theory
1:34 42 Dennett's consciousness theory
1:36 57 Sensorimotor (embodied cognition) theory
1:44 39 What is intelligence?
1:45 08 Intelligence vs consciousness
1:46 36 Free will in Bach's model
1:48 46 Opposite of free will and addiction
1:51 48 Changing identity to live forever
1:59 13 Depersonalization and illusory self
2:02 25 Fear of loss of control
2:05 00 Heart and conscience
2:07 28 Testing/falsifying Bach's consciousness model
2:13 46 Evolution of Bach's model
2:14 41 Stopping lucid dreaming
2:15 33 Dreams and GANs
2:18 08 Why we don't remember dreams
2:19 58 Are dreams real? Is reality a dream?
2:20 39 Practically improving experience
2:23 56 What matters more than survival?
2:28 27 Bach's identity
2:29 44 Is hating humanity objectively wrong?
2:30 31 Practical Platonism
2:33 00 What "God" is
2:36 24 Gods as real as you claim
2:37 44 Nature of prayer and its effect
2:41 06 Society losing future and culture
2:43 24 Disagreement with Jordan Peterson
2:47 16 Millennials as authoritarian generation
2:48 31 Views on social justice movement
2:51 29 UBI vs social inequality and AGI
2:57 39 Nested hierarchy of "I"s
2:59 22 Innovation as "cheating" in USA
3:02 27 Activists operating on false info
3:03 04 Bach's Marxist roots and lessons
3:08 45 BONUS BIT: Societal problems
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James Robert Brown: Thought Experiments Reveal Mathematical Reality Sep 27, 2020

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James Robert Brown (University of Toronto) on mathematical Platonism, the Continuum Hypothesis, moral realism, and free will.
0:00 Introduction
1:17 Math and ethics
3:05 Thick and thin mathematical concepts
16:33 The continuum hypothesis
19:23 Counter proof to CH
24:45 Probability zero (measure zero)
33:50 Platonism and "thick" concepts
34:39 Moral realism without God
36:59 Does 2+2=5?
40:43 Moral intuitions as correctness markers
46:42 What makes a theory correct beyond predict/explain?
47:54 Libertarian Free Will and physics
53:13 VIEWER TEST: Platonism
54:53 Did Shakespeare invent or discover Hamlet?
56:09 What created the Platonic world?
57:42 Eternal vs Sempiternal
59:12 Thought experiments as probes of physics
1:00:39 Galileo's falling-objects thought experiment
1:03:39 Relative motion thought experiment
1:05:01 The Tower thought experiment
1:09:43 VIEWER TEST: Newtonian absolutist or Leibnizian relationalist?
1:12:45 Why Brown chose philosophy of math
1:13:20 Have philosophical problems been solved?
1:14:47 Is God good, or is goodness independent of God?
1:15:41 Descartes vs Leibniz on God's power
1:18:43 Parochialism of physicists/mathematicians
1:22:31 Newton on the necessity of space
1:24:45 Einstein's variation
1:31:35 Brown on Wolfram and Weinstein TOEs
1:32:40 Gisin on real numbers and free will
1:33:02 Non-classical foundations of physics
1:39:05 Mathematical Realism without Platonism
1:45:31 Physical laws as abstract causal entities
1:55:55 Smolin's Principle of Precedence
1:59:01 Deriving "ought" from "is"
2:03:29 Brown on Sam Harris
2:06:45 Math: discovered or invented?
2:10:18 Does Platonism entail God?
2:14:49 Theism vs Deism
2:16:34 The Sokal Affair and Postmodernism
2:22:01 Limits of free speech
2:27:41 Commercializing research
2:33:09 Peterson's "Darwinian" truth
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John Vervaeke: Evil, Psychedelics, and the Roots of Consciousness Sep 15, 2020

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John Vervaeke on the meaning crisis and integrating Buddhism with Christianity via psychedelics, weaving cognitive science and philosophy.
0:00 Introduction
2:43 "Affordance" in Cognitive Science
7:28 Uses of "meaning"
10:10 Materialism vs Physicalism
12:48 "Truth": Harris vs Peterson
17:43 Perspectival knowledge
21:13 Practicing narrative
27:13 The two-world model
31:13 Buddhism's influence on John
33:43 Frankfurt's "bullshit"
42:43 Addiction
45:48 Lucifer and Frankfurt's BS
55:23 What is the "meaning crisis"?
1:10:23 Poetry read aloud
1:11:53 Faith, love, participatory knowledge
1:18:23 Platonic/Aristotelian influence on Christianity
1:21:43 Reverse-engineering other points of view
1:32:13 "Reason" and "love"
1:47:43 Skepticism toward wisdom institutions, birth of narcissism
1:49:43 Vervaeke's use of "God" (transcendence)
1:54:53 Myth lost, grammar retained
2:00:43 Is the meaning crisis worsening?
2:07:45 Psychedelics vs meditation
2:18:00 Modelling truth across knowledge domains
2:21:40 "Interpretation crisis" vs "meaning crisis"
2:25:50 Relevance realization
2:38:50 Sacrificing wealth for meaning
2:43:50 Evil: Buddhism vs Christianity
2:49:35 Is Nihilism harmful or salutary?
2:50:00 What could "free will" mean?
2:57:20 Trolley Problem and Harris on evil
3:00:50 Jungian individuation and Big 5
3:05:50 Cultivating character
3:10:45 Self-deception
3:13:00 Tony Robbins and the placebo effect
3:14:15 "Being in the present moment" is bad advice
3:17:10 3rd generation Cognitive Science
3:24:40 Wisdom: knowing what you control
3:28:15 Which theory of consciousness is correct?
3:32:50 Are intelligent people more conscious or wise?
3:39:00 "Reason" vs "rationality"
3:41:30 Audience: objectivity / the real
3:45:40 Audience: evil and the moral dimension
3:48:00 Audience: meditation and anxiety
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Noam Chomsky: Why Consciousness Cannot Be Reduced to Brain Activity Sep 05, 2020

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Curt Jaimungal interviews Noam Chomsky, diving into consciousness, free will, and the nature of God before tackling moral relativism, activism, and the challenges of modern education. The conversation also examines neoliberal influences, Black Lives Matter, and Chomsky’s personal reflections on religion and politics.
- 0:00 - Introduction
- 0:32 - Consciousness and free will
- 6:04 - Views on God
- 8:02 - Moral relativism vs objectivism
- 9:55 - Mythology and religious upbringing
- 13:30 - Childhood and religion comment
- 17:53 - Christianity as pacifism, liberation theology
- 22:12 - Liberation of the poor activism
- 24:02 - Neoliberalism origins
- 30:40 - Job as autocrat control
- 36:48 - Democratic education ideas
- 39:32 - Neoliberal crisis
- 42:20 - Schools vs learning instinct
- 49:00 - Illich de‑schooling critique
- 52:15 - Multiple school systems
- 54:52 - Charter schools problems
- 57:36 - Openness, diversity, BLM
- 1:00:28 - Imprisonment fear
- 1:01:38 - Trump war crimes
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Rupert Sheldrake: Peer-Reviewed Telepathy and Scientific Suppression Sep 04, 2020

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Rupert Sheldrake exposes alleged scientific deception and defends his peer-reviewed dog telepathy experiments They explore why mainstream science dismisses Sheldrake's ideas, discuss the role of myth and religion, and consider the possibility of simulation and psychedelic insight.
- 0:00 - Introduction
- 1:00 - Scientists dismiss Sheldrake's ideas
- 2:40 - Will science end?
- 5:10 - Natural vs supernatural divide
- 11:10 - Sheldrake on Dennett's consciousness theory
- 13:10 - Nature of reason
- 15:25 - Unconscious within unconscious
- 18:05 - Free will and external influence
- 22:05 - Ordered or random consciousness bedrock
- 28:15 - Psychedelic reality
- 28:25 - LSD vs DMT differences
- 35:10 - Religion ahead of science
- 37:50 - Dog telepathy experiment controversy
- 44:25 - Richard Wiseman's alleged distortion
- 48:08 - Wikipedia manipulation by skeptics
- 50:00 - Myth and truth
- 53:40 - Simulation hypothesis
- 56:00 - Religion, myth, and creation
- 57:10 - New Atheists' view of God
- 1:04:10 - Views on Jordan Peterson
- 1:06:10 - Where to find more on Sheldrake
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Richard Wolff: Why Capitalism Is Failing and What Comes Next Aug 28, 2020

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Richard Wolff discusses the foundations of Marxist economics, the relevance of Black Lives Matter, defunding the police, and the prospects of a third‑wave socialism. He examines historical Marxist ideas, contemporary activism, and policy proposals while questioning institutional biases.
- 0:00 - Humility as condition for scholarship
- 4:04 - How Wolff became a Marxist economist
- 14:14 - West’s fear of Marxism
- 17:36 - Taboo of Marxism and education
- 23:58 - Definitions of Marxism, Socialism, Communism
- 36:02 - The “third phase” of Socialism
- 40:10 - Different experiments of Communism
- 42:22 - Marx on worker co‑ops
- 50:59 - Violence and self‑defense in revolution
- 53:20 - Defunding the police movement
- 57:32 - Is the state antithetical to Marxism?
- 1:02:07 - Black Lives Matter
- 1:04:02 - Anarcho‑communism and Marxism
- 1:06:02 - Advice for BLM activism
- 1:08:02 - Root problem: race or economics?
- 1:12:37 - Measuring freedom
- 1:16:43 - Identity politics and class
- 1:18:45 - Where Wolff disagrees with Marx
- 1:22:36 - Limits of right and left politics
- 1:25:50 - Policy Wolff would enact if elected
- 1:29:50 - Kamala Harris’ father as Marxist
- 1:30:45 - Quota‑based systems and affirmative action
- 1:35:51 - Definitive answer on affirmative action
- 1:38:19 - Hegel’s relation to Marx
- 1:40:14 - Hegelian contradiction and logic
- 1:42:08 - Overview of the labor theory of value
- 1:45:26 - Exploitation in employer‑employee relations
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Edward Stuart: Comparing Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism Aug 26, 2020

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Edward Stuart, Professor Emeritus of Economics, examines the core differences between capitalism, socialism, and communism, debating their historical outcomes and contemporary relevance in China, the United States, and the Korean peninsula.
- 0:00:00 - Introduction to Prof. Edward Stuart
- 0:01:11 - Difference between Socialism, Social Democracy, and Communism
- 0:03:53 - Social democracy vs Welfare State
- 0:04:32 - What is State Capitalism? And does that characterize China?
- 0:08:05 - Is China successful economically, because of Capitalism or Communism?
- 0:12:50 - Does Stalin's regime deserve praise for raising literacy, health care, employment?
- 0:20:30 - What about Mao? (same question as above)
- 0:23:23 - South vs North Korea on Capitalism vs Communism
- 0:34:39 - Why North Korea will collapse economically and politically imminently
- 0:35:50 - Not "real" Communism: Why equality doesn't happen in Communist societies
- 0:40:03 - Difference between economic collapse and a Depression
- 0:41:03 - Conditions for Depression and current US predicament
- 0:54:22 - US tariffs on China and economic growth/protection
- 0:59:23 - Is the US economy headed toward another Depression?
- 1:01:51 - Why printing money doesn't always lead to inflation
- 1:04:15 - Hyperinflation and how to paradoxically solve it
- 1:08:14 - "Communism has killed 10's of millions?" True.
- 1:09:41 - "Capitalism has lifted more out of poverty than any other system?" Partially true.
- 1:13:55 - Can slavery be blamed on Capitalism given it needs voluntary exchange? (+ an economics joke)
- 1:19:30 - What is "black envy" vs "white envy"? Does Marxism lead to "black envy"?
- 1:29:21 - Edward Stuart's biggest differences with Richard Wolff
- 1:30:58 - Where you can find more from Prof. Edward Stuart
- 1:31:33 - Bonus: Economics vs. Physics
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Paul Vanderklay: Why Sam Harris Is Wrong About Meaning and God Aug 24, 2020

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Paul Vanderklay, a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, joins Curt Jaimungal to examine how Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke, Jonathan Pageau, and Sam Harris shape a “new Christianity.” They debate the nature of Christian belief, the role of God, and the intersection of religion with secularism and the state.
- 0:00:00 - Introduction to Paul Vanderklay
- 0:02:55 - Pros and cons of Peterson, Vervaeke, and Pageau approaches
- 0:08:10 - How Christian is the “new Christianity” put forward by Peterson and Jung
- 0:10:04 - Is this the same old debate referenced by Dostoevsky and Nietzsche?
- 0:13:15 - Solzhenitsyn and the new definition of “religion”
- 0:16:32 - What makes someone a Christian?
- 0:20:42 - What is God? (thoughts on the Sam Harris / Peterson debate)
- 0:24:24 - Why deriding God by analogizing him to “Zeus” is incorrect
- 0:27:30 - Relationship between Christianity, Secularism, and the State
- 0:34:16 - Can you rationally prove God’s existence?
- 0:44:40 - Is Sam Harris a Christian?
- 0:47:47 - How “religion without religion” makes sense
- 0:53:19 - Does freedom just mean “more choice”?
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John Moffat: The 88-Year-Old Physicist Who Challenges Dark Matter Aug 20, 2020

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John Moffat (88-year-old physicist) explains his Modified Gravity theory and shares stories of meeting Schrödinger He also shares personal stories, including his meeting with Feynman and his early start in mathematics, while reviewing his current work and non‑technical books.
- 0:00:00 - Modified Gravity and theory origins
- 0:24:58 - Does MOG match data?
- 0:29:53 - Black holes: mass, spin, alpha
- 0:32:49 - Thoughts on TOE, Weinberg and Wolfram
- 0:34:56 - Problem with quantum gravity
- 0:43:16 - Modifying QFT and learning method
- 0:55:27 - Higgs emergence from non‑renormalizable SU(2)xU(1)
- 1:00:16 - Higgs needed for unitarity in Moffat's theory
- 1:04:54 - Arrow of Time
- 1:06:44 - Meeting Feynman (brief story)
- 1:07:36 - Difficulty of modifying gravity
- 1:10:58 - Current research focus
- 1:12:01 - Non‑technical books by Moffat
- 1:14:04 - Black hole singularities and coordinates
- 1:18:55 - Early math/physics start from painter with PTSD
- 1:30:16 - Einstein's early TOE attempts
- 1:41:04 - Bohr and Schrödinger vs Einstein
- 1:52:17 - Attending Dirac's course
- 2:02:44 - Appreciation for Prof. Brian Keating
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