Boundaries of the Knowable - Consciousness - Free will - ET - Space & Time - Wave Paticle Paradox

Pro Truth 📤 3 years ago 2015-02-18

Here is an interesting monologue about some of the limitations of science. In this video, Consciousness and the limits of Science, Free will and determinism, Cosmology, ET (Life and the Universe), The size of Universe, The nature of Space, The nature of time, The nature of matter, and The wave particle paradox will be discussed.

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The Awakening of a New Wave of Consciousness INSPIRATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Amel Tresnjic 📤 3 years ago 2015-06-09

This mind-expanding film explores a 'positive' spiritual perspective regarding the extraordinary significance of 'December 21, 2012' and thereafter. SUBSCRIBE to my Channel, there are many more films to come! Original Film Title: '2012 Crossing Over: A New Beginning' Understand the bigger picture of all the numerous changes occurring on our earth and individual lives in this mind expanding Internet blockbuster, made in its entirety by ONE filmmaker only, Amel Tresnjic.

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Plot: Released before DEC-21-2012, this uplifting film explores a 'positive' spiritual perspective regarding the extraordinary significance of 'December 21, 2012' and thereafter. Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures. Why and what does it mean for us? This feature documentary embarks on an esoteric journey that forms a greater understanding of our worlds 'current state' and the awakening of a new wave of consciousness. Furthermore, it provides an empowering message on how every individual can contribute in making our planet a more peaceful and loving place. The film investigates the 2012 phenomenon, the awakening of mankind, the study of 'As above, so below. As within so without,' the 'cycles' of evolution, the fear agenda in the media, the 'secret elite' and their sinister motives, the polarities of love vs fear, the power of choosing love, the study of consciousness and spirituality, the true power of meditation, the essence of life's purpose and much more. This thought provoking and inspirational film is loaded with marvelous revelations of the current times we live in, from exceptional astrologer and teacher Santos Bonacci, spiritual leaders Bud Barber, George Neo and Vamsi Krishna, Yoga devotee Alfred Van Den Bosh and Vedic historian Acintya Govinda Das. It also features appearances of Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Gregg Braden, Alex Jones, David Icke and many more. Understand the bigger picture of all the numerous changes occurring on our earth and individual lives in this mind expanding Internet blockbuster, made in its entirety by ONE filmmaker only, Amel Tresnjic.

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Felix Baumgartner Space Jump World Record 2012 Full HD 1080p [FULL]

danieluan89 📤 6 years ago 2012-10-14

The Mission -

Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, will attempt to transcend human limits that have existed for 50 years. Supported by a team of experts Felix Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and make a freefall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground. His attempt to dare atmospheric limits holds the potential to provide valuable medical and scientific research data for future pioneers.

The Red Bull Stratos team brings together the world's leading minds in aerospace medicine, engineering, pressure suit development, capsule creation and balloon fabrication. It includes retired United States Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger, who holds three of the records Felix will strive to break.

Joe's record jump from 102,800 ft in 1960 was during a time when no one knew if a human could survive a jump from the edge of space. Joe was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force and had already taken a balloon to 97,000 feet in Project ManHigh and survived a drogue mishap during a jump from 76,400 feet in Excelsior I. The Excelsior III mission was his 33rd parachute jump.

Although researching extremes was part of the program's goals, setting records wasn't the mission's purpose. Joe ascended in helium balloon launched from the back of a truck. He wore a pressurized suit on the way up in an open, unpressurized gondola. Scientific data captured from Joe's jump was shared with U.S. research personnel for development of the space program. Today Felix and his specialized team hope to take what was learned from Joe's jumps more than 50 years ago and press forward to test the edge of the human envelope.

Felix Baumgartner -

"On a mission like this, you need to be mentally fit and have total control over what you do, and I'm preparing very thoroughly."

Felix consistently challenges his personal limits while pushing the physical boundaries of human flight. In 2003, Felix completed an unprecedented flight across the English Channel with a carbon wing, and subsequently began to consider an even bigger goal: the supersonic freefall. With a team of the world's top scientists, engineers and doctors behind him, Felix will attempt to rewrite history and advance aeronautical research with Red Bull Stratos.

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©2012 RED BULL

Jungle of the Red Spirit (full documentary)

New Atlantis Full Documentaries 📤 5 years ago 2013-11-12

This is a journey through the Borneo rainforest , a jungle in which none of the people expected to live too long, where even plants are fearsome predators.

This chapter takes us into the protected areas of the northeast end of the Borneo island to show the functioning of this ecosystem. We'll observe the morphology of this great body that houses both a huge amount of insects and large animals. We will also know the social customs of the monkeys called násicos and we can see the activity of the hairy Sumatran rhino . Watch the sophisticated trap that carnivorous plants produce and enjoy a sample of the wide variety of orchids that the rainforest of Borneo houses.

But the real protagonist is the red orangutan ,named by the locals as "monkey man". We will approach the lives of these endangered primates and discover the efforts made in the Sepilok Forest Reserve to taking care of the baby monkeys, affected by the deterioration of the jungle by the timber industry .

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Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities | WIRED

WIRED UK 📤 2 years ago 2016-07-04

Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED Video, takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen.
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We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging misconceptions from the west. The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware".

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Premiering in February, the second season of WIRED’s Future Cities series takes us inside one of the world’s biggest startup nations. With the most tech startups and venture capital per capita in the world, Israel has long been hailed as The Startup Nation. WIRED’s four-part series will look beyond Tel Aviv’s vibrant, liberal tech epicentre to the wider Holy Land region – the Palestinian territories, where a parallel Startup Nation story is emerging in East Jerusalem, Ramallah and the West Bank, as well as in the Israeli cybersecurity hub of Beersheba. And we will learn how the fertile innovation ecosystem of Silicon Wadi has evolved as a result of its unique political, geographical and cultural situation and explore the future challenges – and solutions – these nations are facing.

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Limits of Perception - The Secrets of Nature

The Secrets of Nature 📤 4 years ago 2014-03-26

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This is a journey form the smallest manmade hole - by removing just one single atom - to the edge of the universe. Man has finally succeeded in making the ancient dream of Greek philosophers come true - to «see» an atom. In another direction we also seem to have unlimited sight: the «Hubble Telescope» grants us a glimpse of the remotest galaxies. This documentary assesses the limits of human perception, taking us on a journey through time from the quasars, millions of light-years away from earth, via the wonders of our populated world to the depths of human genotype and the structure of a single atom. «Limits of Perception» promises a filmic journey of exploration from micro- into macrocosm.

Why we're unhappy -- the expectation gap | Nat Ware | TEDxKlagenfurt

TEDx Talks 📤 4 years ago 2014-11-18

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Why are we getting richer but not happier? Why do lottery winners not have sustained happiness? Why are bronze medalists often happier than silver medalists? “The first step to being happy is to understand why we’re often unhappy,” says economist and entrepreneur Nat Ware. In an entertaining and enlightening talk, Nat shows that we’re bad predictors of happiness, and explains why this is. We make decisions based on actual outcomes, Nat says, but our happiness depends on relative outcomes. We’ve been seduced into a way of life that conspires against our contentment by making it near impossible for reality to live up to our expectations. It is this expectation gap – the gap between our expectations and reality – that Nat argues is a key reason we’re unhappy. Nat challenges us to not relegate happiness to the world of art and the realm of hippies, but to start taking happiness seriously. The answer is not to simply lower our expectations, but rather to change the very way in which we make decisions.

Nat Ware is an economist, entrepreneur, and international development specialist. He is a Rhodes Scholar based at Oxford University, whose research focuses on social impact, poverty alleviation, and the economics of happiness. He is the Founder and CEO of 180 Degrees Consulting, the world’s largest university-based consultancy, with operations in 24 countries and over 4000 consultants worldwide. 180 Degrees has provided over US$50M worth of consulting services to non-profits and social enterprises so they can operate more effectively (www.180dc.org). Nat has lectured on innovation, strategy and global business at The University of Sydney, and was awarded the Saïd Prize for Top MBA Student at Oxford. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and events, and has consulted for many of the world's largest foundations and non-profit organizations. His other TEDx talk “Free Charities from The Idea of Charity” can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpzvnbsma2U.

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The wave particle paradox - Boundaries of the Knowable (9/10)

OpenLearn from The Open University 📤 8 years ago 2010-02-08

Professor Russell Stannard looks at the Wave/Particle Paradox and Neils Bohrs solution to it.

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The Boy Who Can't Forget (Medical Documentary) - Real Stories

Real Stories 📤 2 years ago 2016-10-12

Can you remember what you were doing on 15th March 2003? Or what the weather was like on 30th May 2007? Twenty-year-old British student Aurelien can. This documentary asks if we could have an almost endless memory, would we really want it?

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Creation of the Universe (full documentary)

New Atlantis Full Documentaries 📤 4 years ago 2014-06-16

To get to the contemporary view of the creation of the universe with a beginning and an end, many beliefs and attitudes have undergone complete revolutions.

Most scientists believe that the physical world arose about 14,000 million years ago, from a microscopic point where an almost infinite amount of energy is concentrated. Such was its density, which eventually explode like a huge nuclear furnace. The energy released in the explosion then began to spread in all directions creating a new reality.

This documentary talks about the different ways of trying to describe the Universe.

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The Reality of Consciousness, Peter Russell

scienceandnonduality 📤 4 years ago 2014-11-08

Wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, the collapse of the wave function, and entanglement all point to awareness being an intrinsic aspect of reality. Yet we are still trying to understand them in terms of a worldview that believes the real world to be that
of space, time, and matter, and relegates consciousness to some artifact of brain processes.

Yet the one thing of which we are certain is that we are aware. And it is the one thing the current worldview cannot account for. is profound anomaly will ultimately lead to the full paradigm shift to which contemporary physics is, unwittingly, pointing.

With consciousness as primary, everything remains the same and everything changes. Mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry are unchanged. What changes is our assumption as to what they are describing. They are not describing the unfolding of a physical world, but the unfolding of a universal self-aware eld. We are led to the conclusion that the entire cosmos is a vast eld of knowing, knowing itself, and in that knowing creating for itself the appearance of a material world. Why then don't we see it that way? Why does the material world appear devoid of consciousness?

From the deep pools of Eastern wisdom, to the fast-paced rapids of the West, Peter Russell has mastered many fields, and synthesized them with consummate artistry. Weaving his unique blend of scientific rationale, global vision, and intuitive wisdom, Peter brings a sharp, critical mind to the challenge of self-awakening. The next great frontier of human exploration, he shows, is not outer space, but inner space—the development of the human mind.

He has degrees in theoretical physics, experimental psychology, and computer science from the University of Cambridge in England, and has written ten books in this area, including The Global Brain Awakens, Waking Up in Time, and most recently, From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness.

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Is Consciousness the Unified Field?, John Hagelin

scienceandnonduality 📤 4 years ago 2014-07-12

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Progress in theoretical physics during the past decade has led to a progressively more unified understanding of the laws of nature, culminating in the recent discovery of completely unified field theories based on the superstring. These theories identify a single universal, unified field at the basis of all forms and phenomena in the universe.

At the same time, cutting-edge research in the field of neuroscience has revealed the existence of a 'unified field of consciousness'—a fourth major state of human consciousness, which is physiologically and subjectively distinct from waking, dreaming and deep sleep. In this meditative state, a.k.a. Samadhi, the threefold structure of waking experience—the observer, the observed and the process of observation—are united in one indivisible wholeness of pure consciousness.

These parallel discoveries of a unified field of physics and a unified field of consciousness raise fundamental questions concerning the relationship between the two. We present compelling theoretical and experimental evidence that the unified field of physics and the unified field of consciousness are identical—i.e., that during the meditative state, human awareness directly experiences the unified field at the foundation of the universe.

We show that the proposed identity between pure consciousness and the unified field may be required to account for experimentally observed 'field effects of consciousness.' We present the published results of a National Demonstration Project—in which 4,000 advanced meditators markedly reduced violent crime in Washington, DC. We briefly discuss mechanisms from quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and superstring theory that could explain the proposed link between human neurphysiology and the unified field of physics.

The paradox of choice | Barry Schwartz

TED 📤 12 years ago 2007-01-16

http://www.ted.com Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
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The Human Robot - VPRO documentary - 2015

vpro documentary 📤 3 years ago 2015-06-12

How scared do we actually have to be for smart and social robots? If you ask western people what they think about robots, they are rather reluctant or even a little scared to answer. In Japan it’s completely the opposite, the Japanese love robots. In Japan, all objects – including the robots – have a ‘soul’. This means that in Japan human robots, or intelligent robots will be accepted much easier than in the West. In this VPRO Backlight story director Rob van Hattum investigates the frameworks that determine the boundaries of how we see smart and social robots.

American philosopher Daniel Dennett is convinced humans themselves are robots made from robots, made from robots, made from robots. Human cells and parts of the cells can be seen as robot systems. He says our brain is a hardware robot platform that is being filled with the software of our culture and that is what makes us intelligent.

Dutch social robotics professor Vanessa Evers is building social robots that approach you with understanding, that really understand what you mean. These robots can help you with a museum tour or point the way in an airport.

Naho Kitano is CEO of a company that designs ‘snake robots’ that can look for people in collapsed buildings. But as a sociologist she has extensively been studying robot ethics, trying to answer the question why ‘the West’ is so much more scared of robots than the Japanese.

Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2015.
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Mind Over Masters: The Question of Free Will

World Science Festival 📤 3 years ago 2015-09-25

Do we make conscious decisions? Or are all of our actions predetermined? And if we don't have free will, are we responsible for what we do? Modern neurotechnology is now allowing scientists to study brain activity neuron by neuron to try to determine how and when our brains decide to act. In this program, experts probe the latest research and explore the question of just how much agency we have in the world, and how the answer impacts our ethics, our behavior, and our society.

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Original Program Date: May 30, 2015
Host: Emily Senay
PARTICIPANTS: Christof Koch, Tamar Kushnir, Alfred Mele, Azim Shariff

Emily Senay Introduction. 00:17

Participant Introductions. 03:39

What were the experiments that prove that free will doesn't exist. 05:12

In house veto experiment 09:02

Three types of Free Will 10:30

Free will and Catholicism 18:19

Determining the probability's of what will happen. 25:24

What does a post free will world look like? 29:35

Studies to see if free will determines unethical behavior. 33:20

Free Will and punishment. 41:33

The origin of free will... children? 43:00

Does Free Will exist? 55:06

A Libet style experiment 58:50

Is empathy a part of free will? 01:02:25

Does free will require consciousness. 01:07:52

If there is no free will how can you test it? 01:15:02

Utopia vs dystopia. 01:16:50

Brain, the last Enigma (full documentary)

New Atlantis Full Documentaries 📤 4 years ago 2014-04-04

The human brain is the result of millions of years of evolution. Only 4% in the development of the neocortex separates us from chimpanzees, but this small difference has enabled us to have a greater capacity for communication and learning, to access knowledge. Scientific advances will get the answers to the great enigma on the functioning of our body where consciousness resides.
A tour of the latest discoveries and the big questions that remain to reveal.

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Mysteries of the Mathematical Universe

World Science Festival 📤 4 years ago 2014-11-11

Mathematical mysteries have challenged humanity’s most powerful thinkers and inspired passionate, lifelong obsessions in search of answers. From the strangeness of prime numbers and the nature of infinity, to the turbulent flow of fluids and the geometry of hyperspace, mathematics is our most potent tool for revealing immutable truths. The event was a vibrant tour to the boundaries of the mathematical universe, and explore the deep puzzles that have been solved, the masterminds who powered the breakthroughs, and the towering challenges that have shaken the confidence of some of today’s most accomplished mathematicians—even as they enlist new ways to pursue mathematical truths.

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Original Program Date: June 3, 2011
MODERATOR: Robert Krulwich
PARTICIPANTS: Jonathan Borwein, Keith Devlin, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh

Welcome to the Mathematical Universe. 00:13

Participant Introductions. 01:50

What about math got you interested in the subject? 04:07

Is math an instinct in humans? 10:20

When in history did the number come into existence? 15:22

Math was key to ancient survival. 20:27

1+1=0 Adding in binary. 25:59

Why are some people better at math than others? 26:55

Nontransitive dice game. 33:44

What's the best story about math... Infinite primes? 38:05

Do all math problems have an answer? 44:33

The computer replacing the mathematician? 54:40

Can we mathematically understand the universe we are in without seeing it? 58:48

Perfect Rigour and Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture 01:03:10

If you have determination math is easy. 01:09:09

Mathematics is hierarchical and you need to start from the beginning. 01:13:07

ET, Life and the Universe - Boundaries of the Knowable (4/10)

OpenLearn from The Open University 📤 8 years ago 2010-02-08

Is there intelligent life out there?

(Part 4 of 10)
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What Can Physics Tell Us About Consciousness? -- ChrisFields

scienceandnonduality 📤 3 years ago 2015-08-07

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Physics and particularly quantum physics are often invoked in discussions of consciousness. But what can physics actually tell us? I will first discuss what physics does not tell us: physics
does not provide any criteria with which to distinguish conscious systems from non-conscious systems. As far as physics is concerned, consciousness is like free will - it characterizes
either nothing or everything. Since we are conscious, it is reasonable to regard everything else as conscious, too. If we make this assumption, the question of interest becomes: what systems
are conscious of what? Physics is fundamentally a theory of interaction, so it can tell us a lot about this. The first thing it tells us is that being conscious of something requires expending energy. How much energy a system can expend determines how much it can be conscious of. This energy requirement has surprising consequences, some of which I will describe.

How the Universe Works - Blow your Mind of the Universe - Space Discovery Documentary

How the Universe Works 📤 1 week ago 2019-01-09

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model accounts for the fact that the universe expanded from a very high density and high temperature state, and offers a comprehensive explanation faor a broad range of phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure and Hubble's Law.If the known laws of physics are extrapolated to the highest density regime, the result is a singularity which is typically associated with the Big Bang. Detailed measurements of the expansion rate of the universe place this moment at approximately 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. After the initial expansion, the universe cooled sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity in halos of dark matter, eventually forming the stars and galaxies visible today.

Timeline of the metric expansion of space, where space (including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe) is represented at each time by the circular sections. On the left the dramatic expansion occurs in the inflationary epoch, and at the center the expansion accelerates (artist's concept; not to scale).
Since Georges Lemaître first noted in 1927 that an expanding universe could be traced back in time to an originating single point, scientists have built on his idea of cosmic expansion. While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of two different expanding universe theories, the Big Bang and the Steady State theory, empirical evidence provides strong support for the former.[8] In 1929, from analysis of galactic redshifts, Edwin Hubble concluded that galaxies are drifting apart; this is important observational evidence consistent with the hypothesis of an expanding universe. In 1965 the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, which was crucial evidence in favor of the Big Bang model,[9] since that theory predicted the existence of background radiation throughout the universe before it was discovered. More recently, measurements of the redshifts of supernovae indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, an observation attributed to dark energy's existence.[10] The known physical laws of nature can be used to calculate the characteristics of the universe in detail back in time to an initial state of extreme density and temperature.[11]
The Big Bang theory developed from observations of the structure of the universe and from theoretical considerations. In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a "spiral nebula" (spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth. He did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, and indeed at the time it was highly controversial whether or not these nebulae were "island universes" outside our Milky Way.[37][38] Ten years later, Alexander Friedmann, a Russian cosmologist and mathematician, derived the Friedmann equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity, showing that the universe might be expanding in contrast to the static universe model advocated by Einstein at that time.[39] In 1924 Edwin Hubble's measurement of the great distance to the nearest spiral nebulae showed that these systems were indeed other galaxies. Independently deriving Friedmann's equations in 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, proposed that the inferred recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of the universe.[40]

In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the evident expansion of the universe, if projected back in time, meant that the further in the past the smaller the universe was, until at some finite time in the past all the mass of the universe was concentrated into a single point, a "primeval atom" where and when the fabric of time and space came into existence.[41]

Starting in 1924, Hubble painstakingly developed a series of distance indicators, the forerunner of the cosmic distance ladder, using the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory.
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Cosmology - Boundaries of the Knowable (3/10)

OpenLearn from The Open University 📤 8 years ago 2010-02-08

Professor Russell Stannard explores what kind of universe we live in and what caused the Big Bang.

(Part 3 of 10)
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Sam Harris - Free Will

PyroVesten 📤 6 years ago 2013-01-10

Sam Harris speaks to sold out Sydney Opera House on the delusion of Free Will at Festival Of Dangerous Ideas 2012. Includes audience questions.

More: http://ideas.sydneyoperahouse.com/fodi/

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The dark side of free will | Gregg Caruso | TEDxChemungRiver

TEDx Talks 📤 4 years ago 2014-12-09

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What would happen if we all believed free will didn't exist? As a free will skeptic, Dr. Gregg Caruso contends our society would be better off believing there is no such thing as free will.

Dr. Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Corning Community College and Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Science, Religion and Culture. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from William Paterson University and his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the City University of New York, Graduate Center. He is the author of “Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will (2012)” and the editor of “Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility (2013)” and “Science and Religion: 5 Questions (2014).” An active member of the local community and a believer in the power of idea, Dr. Caruso welcomed the opportunity of this TEDxChemungRiver 2014 to share his work on free will with the community he loves. In his free time he fancies himself an amateur paleontologist, collecting fossils with his daughter, Maya, and fossil hunting the Devonian rock of central New York state.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Science Documentary: Creating Brain Systems,Quantum Computing, Quantum mechanics and Consciousness

ScienceRound 📤 4 years ago 2014-12-25

Science Documentary: Creating Brain Systems,Quantum Computing, Quantum mechanics and Consciousness

The brains power to process information far exceeds that of any computer at the present moment, but in the future that could all change. What separates human beings from all other species is the complexity of our brains. We can adapt to our environments and learn and pass our culture on to our offspring and all this complexity originates in our minds. By understanding the brain through the study of neuroscience we begin to better understand who we are.

If we can understand the software of the brain, the better we can interface with it. And if we can understand the software of the brain, the better we can interface with it. And if we can understand the software or codes that make up the brain, then we could be able to recreate the brain.

First we would need to learn the details and intricate circuitry of the brain before we could be able to create a computer that has similar sophistication.

As the advances in technology increases in the coming years, we will have robots integrated more and more in our normal daily lives. Whereas, at the present time, we have robots performing tasks in manufacturing plants and other industries, soon we will have better thinking or smarter robots to help in our homes with various tasks, when we finally reach this point in creating brain systems for use in computers and robots it will be an enormous boost to the world economy.

Although scientists have high hopes for creating brain systems for computers and machines, there are still many obstacles. As humans, we have evolved to use our vision very efficiently. By simply looking at a picture or photo, we can decipher many things about that picture that a computer would find very difficult to do.
Creating artificial neural networks is a huge task that has been intriguing to researchers who long to bridge the gap between neuroscience and computer science.

Much in the same way machines and electronics can be reverse engineered to understand how to create such things. So to can those things found in nature also be reverse engineered. Some of the original methods used for reverse engineering the brain were by using the tungsten microelectrode. By placing the electrode next to the neurons and then listening to the electrical firing of the cells.

Quantum information and the brain. The debate withing the scientific community is whether or not there is a connection between quantum mechanics and cognition.

Quantum mechanics can be thought of in terms of a generalization of the laws of probability. As demonstrated in the well know double slit experiment, in which you shoot photons of light through two slits in a screen of sheet of paper, you would assume to get the same patter you would get if you were to shoot larger objects through two holes in a sheet. Yet, on the quantum scale, shooting photons or electrons through two slits in a screen reveals a pattern unlike what you would get in a larger scale experiment. You get the photons scattered all over, not just where the two slits were made. This is due to the fact that objects on the quantum scale act like particles and like waves. You can measure the probability
of were a quantum particle may be but the very act of measuring changes the experiment.

Quantum computers have the ability to compute or process faster than a standard computer. In a standard computer, a bit can be either a 0 or 1. But a q-bit can be both a 0 or a 1 at the same time. Quantum computers for simulating problems in quantum physics may be one of the most practical uses for quantum computers. Although the popular belief that a quantum computer could simultaneously process all possible answers to a problem an instantly pick the right answer is not possible.

Another debate in quantum physics is whether the brain could be a quantum computer, and also whether or not consciousness is needed to collapse quantum probabilities into reality. Whereas both sides offer equally strong arguments, the fact is that we still have a lot to learn about quantum mechanics and consciousness.

Science Documentary: Nanotechnology,Quantum Computers, Cyborg Anthropology a future tech documentary
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Science Documentary: Graphene , a documentary on nanotechnology and nanomaterials
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Science Documentary:Perfect lenses,smart textiles,biomedical sensors a documentary on nanotechnology
http://youtu.be/waRH1o0JOjs

Science Documentary: Stem Cells,Regenerative Medicine,Artificial Heart,a future medicine documentary
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Science Documentary: Cognitive science , a documentary on mind processes, artificial intelligence
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Science Documentary: Personalized Medicine, Synthetic Biology , a documentary on genetic design
http://youtu.be/Jk9I1Krizx4

Consciousness and the limits of Science - Boundaries of the Knowable (1/10)

OpenLearn from The Open University 📤 8 years ago 2010-02-08

Professor Russell Stannard asks how we can ever understand the relationship between consciousness and the physical brain.

(Part 1 of 10)
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Transcript link - http://podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/russell-stannard-01/transcript/stannard-01_00543_6600.pdf

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Space, Time and Consciousness: Track 1 https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/across-the-sciences/space-time-and-consciousness

Boundaries of the knowable https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/boundaries-the-knowable

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The nature of matter - Boundaries of the Knowable (8/10)

OpenLearn from The Open University 📤 8 years ago 2010-02-08

Professor Russell Stannard explores the nature of matter and how complete our understanding of matter can be.

(Part 8 of 10)
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Transcript link - http://podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/russell-stannard-01/transcript/stannard-08_00543_6607.pdf

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Space, Time and Consciousness: Track 1 https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/across-the-sciences/space-time-and-consciousness

Boundaries of the knowable https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/boundaries-the-knowable

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How the Universe Works Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries - Space Discovery Documentary

Mcguire Marlon 📤 1 week ago 2019-01-10

Planets that orbit two suns instead of one might be deadly hell worlds, but new discoveries reveal that sci-fi star systems with binary stars might be optimal places for alien life.

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Space, Time, and Consciousness with Vernon Neppe

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove 📤 2 years ago 2016-04-21

Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist and head of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle. He is author, with physicist Edward Close, of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works. He is also author of Déjà Vu Revisited, Déjà Vu: A Second Look, Déjà Vu: Glossary and Library, Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope, and Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy. His professional publications number over 700. Dr Neppe has amplified many of his concepts in two of the websites linked with his work. On www.Brainvoyage.com, his books are amplified. www.VernonNeppe.org is his gateway and includes more information on the Neppe-Close model of the Triadic Distinction Vortical Paradigm.

Here, Dr. Neppe describes his work with Dr. Close in developing a new paradigm that could account for consciousness and psi phenomena within a mathematical and physical framework. His approach is one in which space, time, and consciousness are tethered together. He calls this unified monism. His model also entails nine mathematical dimensions.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.

(Recorded on April 17, 2016)

Dr Robert Sungenis - Geocentrism Geocentric Cosmology

Live Mike Sessions 📤 5 years ago 2013-08-20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8cBvMCucTg https://www.facebook.com/theprinciplemovie Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right is one of the most unique and penetrating books you will ever read. Now complete in Volumes I, II, and III, authors Robert Sungenis and Robert Bennett take you on a tour of science and history the likes of which you would have never believed possible unless it were told to you in detailed and graphic form. Has modern science led us down the primrose path and convinced us of something that they cannot prove and that is in actuality false? Were the Fathers, the Medievals, our popes and cardinals of the 17th century correct in believing that the Earth, based on a face value reading of Scripture, was standing still in the center of the universe? Come with an open mind and allow these two authors to show you facts and figures that have been hidden from the public for a very long time. This is a page turner that you will find hard to put down, once you get riveted by the astounding material these authors have assembled for you. Prepare yourself, however. Your world will be rocked, literally and figuratively. Not only will you see from Volume I how modern science has documented for us in bold fashion that the Earth is motionless in space and occupies the center of the universe (yet have done an equally remarkable job in keeping these important facts out of our educational system), you will now see in Volume II how deeply the popes of the 17th century were involved in condemning heliocentrism, guiding the process step-by-step and finally castigating it as "formally heretical." You will also see how effusive is the data in Scripture that teaches a geocentric universe in the most detailed exegesis of Holy Writ ever presented to the public on this topic. Lastly, Volume II offers detailed and comprehensive documentation of the consensus of the Church Fathers and Medieval theologians on geocentrism. It also covers all the statements and teachings of modern popes and councils, such as Gregory XVI, Benedict XIV, Pius VII, Leo XIII, Benedict XV, The Council of Trent, Vatican I, Vatican II, and a special section on John Paul II in his rexamination of the Galileo case. These are facts and analyses that every Catholic should avail himself. The most important thing you will receive from this astounding study is a very close relationship with God. For once you see that God, his Church, and Holy Scripture have given us the unadulterated truth, proven by modern science itself, you will have no choice but to put yourself completely in His trust and care for everything else in your life.
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The Sun Full HD 1080p, Amazing Documentary

Amazing Documentary and Discovery HD Channel 📤 4 years ago 2014-05-16

It begins with the Sun. Life on Earth is dependent on the Sun. Explore the inner workings of our nearest Star.

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Schrödinger's Thoughts: Life, Free Will, the Self, Oneness of Mind, Consciousness, Realism, Idealism

Cracking The Nutshell 📤 5 years ago 2013-06-11

This is the first part of a series of videos where I explore what the founders and main contributors to Quantum Physics thought about consciousness (mind), the nature of reality, and other related metaphysical or philosophical topics.

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Short extracts from:

- What is Life?
- The Principle of Objectivation
- The Arithmetical Paradox: the Oneness of Mind

Summary:

On life, the laws of physics, order and disorder:

- Living matter, compared to inanimate matter: other laws of physics currently unknown

- Life: order to disorder plus order to order (order that is kept up).

- Genetic code: atoms producing order, in tune with each other and the environment

- A 'mechanism' entirely different from the 'probability mechanism' of physics.

On Determinism, Free Will, The Self and Universal Mind:

- Events in the body of a living being which correspond to the activity of its mind are deterministic or statistico-deterministic

- Quantum indeterminacy plays no biologically relevant role in the body events

- Unpleasant feeling about 'declaring oneself to be a pure mechanism'. Contradicts free will

- (i) My body functions as a pure mechanism according to the Laws of Nature.

(ii) Yet I know that I am directing its motions

The only possible inference is that I am the person who controls the 'motion of the atoms' according to the Laws of Nature

- Insight from the Upanishads. The mystics of many centuries, independently, have described the unique experience of his or her life in terms that can be condensed in the phrase: DEUS FACTUS SUM (I have become God).

- To Western ideology the thought has remained a stranger, in spite of Schopenhauer

- Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular

- How does the idea of plurality arise at all? Consciousness finds itself intimately connected with, and dependent on, the physical state of a limited region of matter, the body

- Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; that there is only one thing and that what seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception (the Indian MAJA)

- Each of us has the indisputable impression that the sum total of his own experience and memory forms a unit, quite distinct from that of any other person. What is this 'I? It is just a little bit more than a collection of single data (experiences and memories), namely the canvas upon which they are collected

- The point of view taken here levels with what Aldous Huxley has recently called The Perennial Philosophy

The Principle of Objectivation. On how science has removed Mind from its model of reality:

- The "hypothesis of the real world" around us. We exclude the Subject of Cognizance from the domain of nature that we endeavor to understand

- A moderately satisfying picture of the world has only been reached at the high price of taking ourselves out of the picture

- The astonishment at finding our world picture 'colourless, cold, mute'. Colour and sound, hot and cold are our immediate sensations; small wonder that they are lacking in a world model from which we have removed our own mental person

The Arithmetical Paradox. The Oneness of Mind:

- The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture: because it is itself that world picture

- The arithmetical paradox: there appears to be a great multitude of these conscious egos, the world is however only one. The several domains of 'private' consciousness partly overlap. The region common to all where they all overlap is the construct of the 'real world around us'

- Two ways out of the number paradox: 1) Leibniz's monads. 2) The unification of minds or consciousness. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads.

- Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy. Agreement between humans of different race, different religion, knowing nothing about each other's existence, separated by centuries and millenia and great distances

- To Western thought this doctrine has little appeal, it is unpalatable, it is dubbed fantastic, unscientific. It is so because our science - Greek science - is based on objectivation. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking does need to be amended

Note (Cracking the Nutshell): Using a non-dogmatic, open-minded approach like Schrödinger or Huxley did can be very rewarding and help us look at reality in a different way. While I don't necessarily agree with all of Schrödinger's views, I think that the topics raised are fascinating and a great source of food for thought.

The size of Universe - Boundaries of the Knowable (5/10)

OpenLearn from The Open University 📤 8 years ago 2010-02-08

Professor Russell Stannard investigates what is beyond the observable universe and explores claims that the universe might close back on itself.

(Part 5 of 10)
Playlist link - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3096540179B12F8D

Transcript link - http://podcast.open.ac.uk/feeds/russell-stannard-01/transcript/stannard-05_00543_6604.pdf

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Space, Time and Consciousness: Track 1 https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/across-the-sciences/space-time-and-consciousness

Boundaries of the knowable https://www.open.edu/openlearn/body-mind/boundaries-the-knowable

Study a free course on the arts and humanities at the Open University https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/studying-the-arts-and-humanities/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

Study module S207 The physical world with the OU
http://www.open.ac.uk/science/main/studying-science/s207-the-physical-world-0

Study R14 BA (Honours) Arts and Humanities (Philosophy)
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Suit Up - 50 Years of Spacewalks

NASA 📤 3 years ago 2015-05-29

This NASA documentary celebrates 50 years of extravehicular activity (EVA) or spacewalks that began with the first two EVAs conducted by Russian Alexey Leonov in March 1965 and American astronaut Edward White in June 1965 . The documentary features interviews with NASA Administrator and astronaut, Charles Bolden, NASA Deputy Administrator and spacesuit designer, Dava Newman, as well as other astronauts, engineers, technicians, managers and luminaries of spacewalk history. They share their personal stories and thoughts that cover the full EVA experience-- from the early spacewalking experiences, to spacesuit manufacturing, to modern day spacewalks aboard the International Space Station as well as what the future holds for humans working on a tether in space. "Suit Up," is narrated by actor and fan of space exploration Jon Cryer. Cryer recently traveled to Star City, NASA Headquarters and the Johnson Space Center to film an upcoming Travel Channel documentary series.

What Is Time? Determinism, Quantum Physics, Consciousness, Information, Free Will, Causality...

Cracking The Nutshell 📤 5 years ago 2013-02-05

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Welcome to Cracking the Nutshell! In this video, I discuss the nature of time. Summary:

- Newtonian time (absolute time)
- Relativistic Time (Einstein) / The observer
- Time dilation (Special Relativity Theory)
- Muons / cosmic rays (half-life)
- Philosophical Theories of Time: A and B theories (John McTaggart)
- Presentism / Block Time
- "Now" moment and consciousness (awareness of change)
- Determinism and classical physics
- Free will an illusion?
- Is time linear?
- Time as perception of duration, change and ordering of events
- Time an illusion of consciousness?
- Time enabling 3D physical perception of space
- Universe whith no change and no perception
- Individual time, intricately linked to awareness
- Is time more fundamental than space?
- Universe where only patterns of states exist and perception of change, hence time (but no 3D space)
- Fundamental time (quantum of time): Planck time
- Quantum gravity / Quantum universe simulations
- Time fundamental (not emergent)
- Renate Loll
- Time and consciousness
- Is there an objective reality out there?
- Quantum physics / religion / philosophy / spirituality
- Physics and New Age ideas
- Consciousness as taboo (within Physics)
- Brilliant minds in Quantum Physics: Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Wigner, Bohm, Wheeler, Feynman....
- Time from the Quantum Physics perspective
- Probability distributions
- Observation / Measurement / Retrieval of Information / Collapse of the wavefunction
- Collapse of Determinism
- Fundamental role of observer and "now" moment of time
- Determinism and randomness
- Arrow of time / Entropy / Causality / Deterministic equations of physics
- Second Law of Thermodynamics / Disorder / Time direction
- Is causality fundamental in our universe?
- Free will and determinism
- Consciousness and free will and illusion?
- Schrödinger's equation and determinism
- Non-local reality in the background (computing outside our space-time)
- Flow of information between realities (or dimensions)
- From determinism to randomness? Or is there another option?
- Interaction between quantum world and consciousness / free will
- Double-slit experiments
- Information or knowledge fundamental?
- Experiments that provide evidence of mind-matter interaction (consciousness or free will can influence the outcome of a probabilistic distribution)
- Quantum random number generators
- Helmut Schmidt
- Free will debates
- Purely linear physical causality?
- Non-local realms, nested time / nested realities
- Tom Campbell
- Dogmatic believes within science
- Can the present change the past? Retro-causality (backwards causality)
- Delayed choice quantum eraser
- Nature of time and arrow of time, when causality does not need to be linear nor confined to just our-space time
- Reality linked to observation / Collapse of objective reality
- Linear timeline in our space-time versus branching time-line in probability space
- Retrieval of information (from probability space to our space-time) as key to understanding causality
- Past and future databases / branching timeline
- Reality as probabilistic + free will
- Scientific method and science
- Physics / Metaphysics / Philosophy

References and other suggested videos / info:

Philosophy theories of time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6hS_gy9MY

Renata Loll videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2gBjQ8xIo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACS1_5jyvHE

Tom Campbell video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMOGFaOLSQ

Cracking the Nutshell website:

http://crackingthenutshell.org

The Illusion of Time (Fabric of the Cosmos) NOVA HD

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The Illusion of Time - We waste it, spend it, make it, and kill it, but what really is time? Is it like a river that flows, a clock that ticks, or nothing more than an illusion? Join a time-traveling adventure to uncover the true nature of past, present, and future--and of time itself.
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