Exploring Perception and Matter in the Universe, Dangers of Phone Use While Driving

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — with some help from scientist, computer engineer, and philosophy writer Bernardo Kastrup — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

• This Paper Suggests the Universe Has Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Bernardo Kastrup Profile
• Panpsychism Is the Belief That the Universe Is Conscious of Itself
• Consciousness Is Known as the Hard Problem of Neuroscience
• Your Phone Makes You a Worse Driver Even if You Don't Touch It
• Nearly Everyone Experiences Intrusive Thoughts — Here's How To Handle Them
• Blame The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon For The Things You Notice More Than Others

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Full episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-universe-in-consciousness-w-bernardo-kastrup-intrusive-thoughts-phones-ruin-drivers-and-baader-meinhof

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