Psychic Experience and the Brain with Vernon Neppe

source: New Thinking Allowed    2016年5月2日
Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, is a neuropsychiatrist and head of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle. He is a former president of the South African Society for Psychical Research. He is author of Déjà Vu Revisited, Déjà Vu: A Second Look, Déjà Vu: Glossary and Library, Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope, Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works (written with physicist Edward Close), 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 research linking subjective psychic experiences with anomalous functioning of the brain’s temporal lobes. He suggests that veridical psychic experiences point to the likelihood that consciousness can function outside of the brain. He mentions his philosophical position of “unified monism” as an alternative to the philosophical dualism espoused by the great neurologists, Wilder Penfield and Sir John Eccles.

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 15, 2016)

Roger Moore: Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity (2010 at U of Alberta)

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source: Roger Moore    2016年4月8日
PHYS 144: Newtonian Mechanics and Relativity
Lectures of a first year, calculus-based course on Newtonian Mechanics and Special Relativity, given in 2010. An introduction to what physics studies as well as basic problem solving techniques and the goals of the course.

Lecture 2: Introduction to Physics 45:27
Lecture 3: Units and Measurements 42:19
Lecture 4: Measurements 37:26
Lecture 5: Kinematics I 38:54
Lecture 6: Kinematics II 45:09
Lecture 7: Kinematics III 39:30
Lecture 8: Uniform Circular Motion 42:12
Lecture 9: Force and Mass 43:30
Lecture 10: Contact Forces 37:49
Lecture 11: Strings and Equilibrium 40:01
Lecture 12: Free Body Diagrams 42:36
Lecture 13: Work and Energy 45:22
Lecture 14: Potential Energy 41:04
Lecture 15: Power 44:49
Lecture 16: Rocket Science 39:16
Lecture 17: Momentum and Impulse 38:46
Lecture 18: Coefficient of Restitution 43:39
Lecture 19: 2D Collisions and Dark Matter 41:01
Lecture 20: Angular Velocity 40:30
Lecture 21: Angular Acceleration 41:52
Lecture 24: Circular Acceleration 44:51
Lecture 25: Moment of a Force 20:32
Lecture 26: Moment of Inertia 42:24
Lecture 27: Angular Energy and Momentum 55:59
Lecture 29: Equilibrium 42:59
Lecture 30: Gyroscopes and Equilibrium 39:29

Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Demo Day 2016

source: Yale University    2016年7月21日
Hear pitches from student founders who have been developing their ventures as part of the YEI Fellowship, Yale's premier summer program for launching new startups. Witness the next big startup ideas at Yale in industries including tech, healthcare tech, law, consumer products and food.#yaleinnovation

The Faint Young Sun Paradox!

source: MinuteEarth   2016年9月7日
This video was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. To learn more, visit https://www.heisingsimons.org/
Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth :

Husserl, Self-Responsibility and Eudaimonia (1-3) by John Drummond

source: Eidos84    2010年11月5日
In April 2009 the Husserl-Archives Leuven organised a four-day conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Edmund Husserl's birth. John Drummond spoke on 'Self-Responsibility and Eudaimonia'.

Noam Chomsky Interview on Limits of Language & Mind (Subtitles Available)

source: Philosophical Overdose   2015年11月24日
Bryan Magee interviews Noam Chomsky about his work in linguistics and the philosophical implications regarding the limits of language and thought, the mind, freedom of choice, and political theory.
This interview is from 1978.
Transcript/subtitles have been added.

Atmospheric effects of the 2015 UK solar eclipse

source: The Royal Society     2016年8月12日
Solar eclipses rarely cross populated regions, but provide great opportunities both for science and science outreach when they do. The latest theme issue of Philosophical Transactions A brings together a unique series of studies on the meteorological effects of the March 2015 solar eclipse. We spoke to guest editor Professor Giles Harrison about the special issue.

How Can Free Will Work? (Closer to Truth)

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source: Closer To Truth    2016年8月17日
Assume that free will is real, not an illusion, and that the only reality is physical. How then could the will possibly be free? By what mechanism could human choice transcend the strong determinism of a closed physical world?
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Simon Blackburn - How Can Free Will Work? 7:15
Gregory Boyd - How Can Free Will Work? 5:24
David Shatz - How Can Free Will Work? 6:55

Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman: "Wired to Create" | Talks at G...

source: Talks at Google    2016年8月10日
Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman stopped by NYC to discuss their new book "Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind".
Based on psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman’s groundbreaking research and Carolyn Gregoire’s popular article in the Huffington Post, Wired to Create offers a glimpse inside the “messy minds” of highly creative people. Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire discuss the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology, along with engaging examples of artists and innovators throughout history and the practices and habits of mind that promote creative thinking. Kaufman and Gregoire untangle a series of paradoxes— like mindfulness and daydreaming, seriousness and play, openness and sensitivity, and solitude and collaboration – to show that it is by embracing our own contradictions that we are able to tap into our deepest creativity.

Physics vs. Human Perception: Which Represents Reality? | Janna Levin

source: Big Think    2016年8月15日
What does a theoretical physicist do all day? Janna Levin shares some insight on perception vs. reality, and provides a glimpse of how she spends her time (hint: doing math).Levin's latest book is "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space" (http://goo.gl/dFrzuz).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/janna-levi...

Transcript - Every human being models the world to understand it and that's cognitively how we're successful. So I don't look at a chair and see a huge number of molecules or some very complex structure, I see a chair. This is something that's very hard to teach a computer to do to understand conceptual things forward. And we conceptualize right away. We theorize right away. I have a theory of what that object is and my theory is that it's a chair. And that's what helps human beings be so adaptable in the world and so fast at moving through the world is precisely this ability to theorize and model. But we also know that by doing so we are projecting a theory of the world on the world and we trick ourselves, we deceive ourselves sometimes. The trick is to use the power that's given to us by being able to conceptualize and model and have metaphor, but always to remember that that's what we're doing and to always - when you come to a point there is in some sense no such thing as knowing something's true. It's true in the context of the model of the world that you have. And maybe there's a different model of the world where that truth is a little bit different. I mean I am in no position to talk about interpersonal relationships, but I think that this is a problem between people that we have a theory of the world and things mean the certain things in that context and we forget that somebody else has a different theory of the world and the exact same experience means something very different.
As a theoretical physicist I rely very much on calculating to understand a result. So let's say I want to know what happens when a big black hole swallows a little tiny black hole. My starting point will be to think what's my first mathematical sentence that I know if I crack it open will answer this question? Even with that step can be very hard. And then once I do that I'll be moving very in a very structured way through the steps to unlock that, but sometimes It's like a Rubik's Cube, which I'm actually not good at, some people can just [SOUND] and solve it and some people just keep making a bigger mess. And so as a physicist you want your skill to improve to the point where you could just sort of unlock this thing. I find it very interesting when I work with much younger students I like to kind of sit back in the room when you we're calculating now and ask them to try to find the solution in a way that we do know how to go one step after another, but I'll be trying, at the same time, to try to find that cute way of unpacking it that's highly non obvious. And sometimes I'm sitting there for two days while they're generating 12 pages of very tough beautifully done calculations where I'm trying to find a way to try to do it in a half a page. Read Full Transcript Here: http://goo.gl/XFw6lV.

H. C. Verma: Nuclear Physics Fundamentals and Application (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2014年3月25日
Physics - Nuclear Physics Fundamentals and Application by Prof. H. C. Verma, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visithttp://nptel.ac.in

01 -Brief Overview of the course 53:34
02 Nuclear Size 58:49
03 Nuclear Size Cont.. 50:41
04 Nuclear Size Cont.. 58:15
05 Semi empirical Mass Formula 1:03:17
06 Semi empirical Mass Formula Cont.. 55:10
07 Semi empirical Mass Formula Cont.. 49:57
08 Semi empirical Mass Formula Cont.. 48:42
09 Semi empirical Mass Formula Cont.. 57:46
10 How are Neutron stars bound 46:27
11 Deuteron 58:12
12 Deuteron Cont.. 54:57
13 Deuteron Cont.. 1:01:56
14 Scattering of nucleons 57:48
15 Low energy n-p scattering 58:53
16 Theories of nuclear forces 58:18
17 Shell model 53:36
18 Shell model Contd.. 51:45
19 Shell model Contd.. 58:52
20 Shell model Contd.. 54:33
21 Shell model Contd.. 52:05
22 Collective models 54:59
23 Vibrational and Rotational levels 59:17
24 Radioactivity, Alpha Decay 54:47
25 Alpha decay Contd.. 50:29
27 Beta decay Contd.. 52:15
28 Beta decay Contd.. 54:08
29 Gamma decay 55:38
30 Nuclear Reactions 58:20
31 Nuclear reaction Contd.. 54:41
32 Nuclear reaction Contd.. 49:05
33 Nuclear Fission basics 50:18
34 Nuclear fission of uranium 52:15
35 Nuclear Fission Reactor 1:00:55
36 Nuclear Energy Programme of India 57:28
37 Nuclear Fusion 51:36
38 Nuclear fusion Contd.. 59:31
39 Thermonuclear fusion reactors 51:01
40 Fusion reactions in Stars and stellar neutrinos 53:40
41 Nucleosynthesis of elements in Stars 47:24
42 Mossbauer Spectroscopy 53:33
43 RBS, PIXE, NAA, Summary 53:01

Computer Networks by S. Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur)

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source: nptelhrd     2008年5月5日
Computer Science and Engineering - Computer Networks by Prof. S. Ghosh, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more Courses visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Lecture - 21 Local Internetworking 59:49
Lecture - 22 Cellular Networks 59:52
Lecture - 39 FTP - SMTP 59:40
Lecture - 23 Wireless Network 59:54
Lecture - 40 HTTP 59:48
Lecture - 20 Modern Ethernet 59:52
Lecture - 38 Security 59:50
Lecture - 18 Satellite Communication 59:51
Lecture - 37 Network Management 59:56
Lecture - 19 Ethernet - CSMA/CD 59:46
Lecture - 17 Stop & Wait Protocol 59:50
Lecture - 16 Error Control 59:49
Lecture - 36 QOS & Multimedia 59:55
Lecture - 14 Token Based Mac 59:52
Lecture - 15 Data Link Protocols 59:53
Lecture - 35 Congestion Control 59:49
Lecture - 34 DNS & Directory 59:49
Lecture - 13 Multiple Access 59:50
Lecture - 12 Protection and Restoration 59:48
Lecture - 33 DHCP and ICMP 59:53
Lecture - 11 Routing and Wavelength Assignment 59:53
Lecture - 10 Fiber Optic Components 59:51
Lecture - 9 SONET/SDH 59:59
Lecture - 8 Pocket Switches 59:44
Lecture - 32 IP Multicasting 59:55
Lecture - 7 Switches - I 59:50
Lecture - 6 Telecom Networks 59:54
Lecture - 31 TCP 59:51
Lecture -5 Multiplexing (Sharing a Medium) 59:53
Lecture - 4 Physical Medium - II 59:55
Lecture - 3 Physical Medium - I 59:52
Lecture - 2 Network Topology 59:49
Lecture -1 Emergence of Networks & Reference Models 59:48
Lecture - 30 UDP & Client Server 59:53
Lecture - 29 IP Version 6 & Mobile IP 59:46
Lecture 28 - IP version 4 59:39
Lecture - 27 RIP - Distance Vector Routing 59:45
Lecture - 26 Introduction to Routing 59:47
Lecture - 25 ATM Signaling, Routing and LAN Emulation 59:41
Lecture - 24 ATM : Asynchronous Transfer Mode 59:49

Data Structures and Algorithms by Naveen Garg (IIT Delhi)

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source: nptelhrd    2008年9月24日
Computer Sc - Data Structures and Algorithms by Dr. Naveen Garg, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi.

Lecture - 1 Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms 53:31
Lecture - 2 Stacks 1:04:10
Lecture - 3 Queues and Linked Lists 1:00:36
Lecture - 4 Dictionaries 53:43
Lecture - 5 Hashing 1:01:23
Lecture - 6 Trees 43:14
Lecture - 7 Tree Walks / Traversals 51:11
Lecture - 8 Ordered Dictionaries 56:17
Lecture - 9 Deletion 58:32
Lecture - 10 Quick Sort 58:44
Lecture - 11 AVL Trees 53:42
Lecture - 12 AVL Trees 1:00:19
Lecture - 13 Trees 49:11
Lecture - 14 Red Black Trees 1:04:33
Lecture - 15 Insertion in Red Black Trees 48:34
Lecture - 16 Disk Based Data Structures 42:37
Lecture - 17 Case Study: Searching for Patterns 1:02:02
Lecture - 18 Tries 1:01:35
Lecture - 19 Data Compression 45:47
Lecture - 20 Priority Queues 49:46
Lecture - 21 Binary Heaps 41:52
Lecture - 22 Why Sorting 48:27
Lecture - 23 More Sorting 58:00
Lecture - 24 Graphs 56:45
Lecture - 25 Data Structures for Graphs 57:48
Lecture - 26 Two Applications of Breadth First Search 53:24
Lecture - 27 Depth First Search 53:46
Lecture - 28 Applications of DFS 59:32
Lecture - 29 DFS in Directed Graphs 53:08
Lecture - 30 Applications of DFS in Directed Graphs 38:46
Lecture - 31 Minimum Spanning Trees 58:51
Lecture - 32 The Union 55:14
Lecture - 33 Prims Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Trees 1:01:15
Lecture - 34 Single Source Shortest Paths 58:58
Lecture - 35 Correctness of Dijkstras Algorithm 55:59
Lecture - 36 Single Source Shortest Paths 57:42

Confronting Evil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Mahindra Humanities Center (Panel One)

source: Harvard University    2013年6月4日
A conference cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Panel One: The Concept and Rhetoric of Evil
Peter-André Alt, Freie Universität Berlin
Avishai Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum
Elaine Pagels, Princeton University
Chair: Homi Bhabha, Harvard University
For more information, visit http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard....

The Toxic Stress of Early Childhood Adversity

source: Harvard University     2012年2月21日
The Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health
Evidence suggests that for the youngest children, prolonged or severe exposure to abuse, neglect and economic hardship -- exacerbated by a dearth of stable, supportive relationships with adults -- can provoke a "toxic stress response" with lifelong consequences. Such stress may influence brain development and increase the risk for illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes. While efforts have been made for decades to intervene early in children's lives, the results have not always been resounding. This Forum event examined how health and education policies can be both harnessed and revamped to counteract early childhood adversity and included a discussion of a new policy statement, "Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Role of the Pediatrician: Translating Developmental Science Into Lifelong Health," issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
February 7, 2012