“We do not recognise categories and the patterns they give rise to, our brains construct them,” argues Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Quassim Cassam, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Hillary Lawson explore how to break free from our desire for patterns. iai.tv/video/mind-map…

Dark matter and dark energy supposedly account for 95% of the universe. Yet, decades on, this proposition remains without evidence. In this debate, Roger Roger Penrose, Subir Sarkar, and Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans try to answer why we can't find most of the universe. iai.tv/video/the-univ…

“All who’ve felt the force of Nietzsche’s thinking have been attracted to it ... but few understand the full extent of his vision.” | Matt McManus explains how both the left and the right have tried to appropriate Nietzsche’s ideas to no avail. iai.tv/articles/the-l…

“We have no choice but to recognize that our accounts of the world inevitably have elements that are not evidential and based on facts.” | Hilary Lawson writes on why metaphysics are inescapable. iai.tv/articles/21st-…

Transhumanists would like to take the reins of evolution and overturn its principles. But what would the implications for this be? Futures theorist Luke Robert Mason analyses the possibilities for human enhancement brought about by technology. iai.tv/video/wave-goo…

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” - Victor Frankl

#QuoteOfTheDay #quotes #VictorFrankl

Is there a correct way to see the world and if so, would humans be fit to identify it?

Tap to watch psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman in a debate with Ellen Langer and Hilary Lawson exploring the biases that influence our perception: iai.tv/video/the-perc…

“Anything which is possible is also natural – it’s in line with the laws of nature. If homosexuality was unnatural it just couldn’t exist.”

Yuval Noah Harari and Slavoj Žižek answer: does nature always know best or is this simply a human misconception? iai.tv/video/nature-f…

“You have to have a proposition with which at least it’s possible to disagree.” Philip Collins shares key tips and tricks for captivating and resonating with an audience. iai.tv/video/phil-col…

'It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.' - Gertrude Stein

#QuoteOfTheDay #Quotes #GertrudeStein

Asexuality has always existed but in recent years, it has gained focus in public debates. Yasmin Benoit, MSc explores what it means to be asexual as she discusses epistemic injustice, the male gaze, labels, and essentialism. iai.tv/articles/how-t…

Is the world really made of separate parts?
Join Jack Symes as he hosts Tim Maudlin, Michael Della Rocca and Kathleen Higgins to ask if we should abandon the notion of differentiation, as advocated by philosophers like Parmenides and Spinoza, in the world.iai.tv/video/fragment…

“Knowingly or unknowingly, we want some kind of legacy, some kind of evidence that we existed.” | Gregory Feist argues that it is the inevitability of death that fuels our creative endeavors in science as in art. iai.tv/articles/creat…

“Human cultures are on the cusp of a new era in entwined biological and technology evolution, in which the symbiosis between computational media and humans morphs into technosymbiosis.” | Katherine Hayles on the fake dualism of humanity versus technology. iai.tv/articles/the-e…

“Consciousness is an ontological primitive and part of the creative nature of the cosmos,” suggests Iain McGilchrist.

Donald Hoffman, Dr Iain McGilchrist and Eva Jablonka debate how #consciousness fits together with our present understanding of #evolution . iai.tv/video/the-dawn…

'To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.' - Baron de Montesquieu

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“Physics as queen is a tall order, and the world she would rule is altogether unlike the one we experience.” Nancy Cartwright argues against the crowning of physics as the queen of all sciences: the real world is more complex than physics allows it to be.iai.tv/articles/nancy…

With the passing of Nobel prize-winning physicist, Peter Higgs, we reflect on the importance of ‘the God particle’, the Higgs boson. We asked the world’s leading thinkers and physicists for their thoughts on Higgs and the legacy of his work.

Read here: iai.tv/articles/6-phy…

Judith Butler, at Monday's IAI Live, offered a powerful diagnosis of today's wars over gender.

Watch to see the IAI's most pressing Q&As, and explore how, despite 'gender' being the most fraught issue of our times, there is still cause for hope.
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Conspiracy theories cannot be easily falsified, argues Michael Shermer. From notions as extreme as denying the existence of airplanes to birds thought to be government drones, these theories are very difficult to debunk through rational means.

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