The Stickiness of Multiple Cognitive Systems Together

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"I'm like living up there in the, you know, world of ideas and I forget what day it is," he says. "My wife and I adore each other like two pieces, but we're also extremely different in many ways." We seem to use language to share the ideas that make us who we are, writes Hawking. He adds: "There's a projection that happens from the three-dimensional ideas into ... a one-dimensional language"

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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:48) – Music and life
(46:21) – The number 42
(52:22) – The question about the meaning of life
(55:02) – Are humans unique in the universe?
(1:00:46) – Human civilization
(1:12:52) – Mars
(1:14:45) – Human mind and the abstraction layers of reality
(1:25:38) – Neural networks and intelligence
(1:32:55) – Ideas as organisms
(1:42:19) – Language
(1:53:34) – Legacy
(2:08:25) – Poems