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Life Sciences, Mind & Health

Consciousness & cognition

Consciousness & cognition sits within Life Sciences, Mind & Health. Distinguish accounts of biological mechanisms from interpretations of behavior and claims about human health. This selection contains 60 catalog videos from 43 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include consciousness, philosophy of mind, cognition, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, other, podcast and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]”, listed under withDefiance, is cataloged as interview. The full 1971 Dutch television debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault on human nature, with subtitles. They discuss creativity, knowledge, power and politics.

“Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS”, listed under NOVA PBS Official, is cataloged as documentary. A NOVA documentary with neuroscientist Heather Berlin exploring the subconscious and what drives our decisions. It uses sleepwalking, anesthesia, improvised rap in an MRI and game theory to probe how much of…

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