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Psycholinguist Steven Pinker talks about how language both transmits information and reflects social relations.

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_what_our_language_habits_reveal/up-next?language=en

Cognitive linguist Lera Boroditsky talks about the influence of our language on our mind.

John McWhorter talks about the advantages of learning new languages.

Linguist Michael Halliday, founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics, talks about how meaning has emerged over time.

Amy Cuddy talks about how “power posing” can shape how well you perform. Note that it is debated whether this is reproducible.

https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_may_shape_who_you_are/up-next#t-7430

Here is it demonstrated how a simple change can make a task impossible that we are otherwise expert at.

Leader of the behaviourist paradigm, B. F. Skinner, talks about the conditioning of animals.

Psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman talks about his theory of the fast system 1 and the slow system 2 kinds of thinking.

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks about the difference between experience and memory, and which is more important for happiness.

https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory/up-next?language=en

A guide to the Loci method for memorization.

Psychologist Alan Baddeley describes the ogirin of the idea of a central executive that controls the working memory.

Psychologist Alan Baddeley talks about the different thoeries on working memory.

An informative video on what working memory is.

Memory Athlete Idriz Zogaj talks about methods for memorization and its use in daily life.

Psychologists Paul and Eve Ekman talk about their theory of fundamental emotions.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio talks about how emotions are critical in good decision making.

Psychologist Lisa Fedlman Barret talks about the constructivist theory of emotions.

https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_feldman_barrett_you_aren_t_at_the_mercy_of_your_emotions_your_brain_creates_them/up-next

Neuroscientist May-Britt Moser holds her Nobel Prize speech, talking about her work on representation of space and time in the brain.

A short News Video on technology to decode what people are seeing or thinking from brain signals.

A lecture by Neuroscientist Frederick Travis on how experience changes the brain.

A video on the technological shift that is machine learning.

Computer Scientist Ali Rahimi talks about current challenges in machine learning methodology.

Robotics Researcher Peter Haas talks about the dangers of a society relying too much on black-box Machine Learning.

Older documentary on the historic match where the chess computer Deep Blue beat the world champion, Garry Ksparov.

Two Minute Papers: New Deepmind AI Beats Alphago 100-0 A description of the AlphaGo 0 system that trains without training data and beats the old AlphaGo every time.

OpenAI system beats high-competitive players in DOTA 2.

Lifelike-looking robot Sophia is awarded a citizenship in Saudi Arabia, making her the first robot citizen.

Cognitive Neuroscientist and proponent of the Global Workspace Theory Stanislas Dehaene talks about the brain and consciousness.

Computational Psychologist Donald Hoffman explains the desktop metaphor and gives an evolutionary argument for us not seeing reality as it is.

https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is/up-next

Computational Psychologist Donald Hoffman argues that consciousness can not be explained with a computationalist perspective.

Philosopher of Cognitive Science Ned Block argues that modern AI approaches can’t answer the hard problem of consciousness.

Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett argues for computationalism and that consciousness is an illusion.

Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett demonstrates the illusion of consciousness.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_the_illusion_of_consciousness/up-next

Philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris talks about consciousness and time.

Computational Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues that conscious experience is a hallucination.

Biologist abd author Rupert Sheldrake argues for panpsychism and the potential for consciousness in all matter.

Psychologist and neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga talks about where consciousness comes from.

Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on the ongoing collective quest to understand consciousness.

https://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness

Philsopher John Searle argues that consciousness should be understood as a biological phenomenon like all others.

Guilio Tononi, founder of the Information Integration Theory, talks about consciousness and his theory about it.

Neuroscientist Christof Koch talks about the intrinsic nature consciousness, based in the Information Integration Theory.

Mark Solms argues that consciousness is based on affect, and affect is based on prediciton error minimization.

An informative video about Kuhn’s theories of paradigms anf scientific revolutions

And informative video on Karl Popper’s ideas of falsification as the basis of science, which much of our methdology builds on todya.

A Crash Course video on Karl Poppers ideas of falsifiability, and why it is necessary for a science to function.

A short and dramatic video on the God Helmet experiment, where brain stimulation can cause religious experiences. Note that these results have since been subject of much controversy.

Psychologist Jordan Peterson talks through the bible from a religio-psychological standpoint, drawing on people like Jung and Nietzsche

A crash course on the behaviourist paradigm, where only observable behaviour is thought to be a good subject of science

Neuroscientist Karl Friston talks about the Free Energy Principle, his unifying framework for understanding living things in general