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Ep 41: David Chalmers on the Nature of Reality

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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Neuro Science Is Going Through a Real Renaissance

In the ancient hindo tradition, a narada tells vishnu, i have conquered illusion. I have conquered maya. And so a vishnu then gives him this whole experience of turns him into a woman. In an animated tv series called rick o rick, where his grandson takes his grandson to a weird video game arcade and gets to live a 50-year life as a football star turned morty. This trope is everywhere? How do we know what is real? What does it mean to be alive in today's world? We can't really entertain that very idea without knowing about computers,. which only came along in the middle of the twentieth century.

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