Podcasts by COW - the podcast
Can Of Worms. Remapping our cognitive landscape
Further podcasts by Ant Biggs
Podcast on the topic Philosophie
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Why Philosophy Works, and The Question You Need To Be Asking... from 2019-06-01T16:52:07
Me, Metaphor and Mind... What philosophy tells us about recent findings in the cognitive sciences and how it makes for an effective self help tool. How individual empowerment opens up freedom of ch...
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Wow! Spinoza! from 2019-05-17T17:41:34
Hi there, welcome to Cow - The Podcast episode 18. I've entitled it Wow! Spinoza. This week again short but hopefully sweet. I take another run at some of the ideas of contemporary Cognitive Scienc...
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When The Map Doesn't Fit... from 2019-05-08T17:25:58
This week, contrasting a position of enlightened rationalism, with findings of our contemporary cognitive sciences, we hear Ant Biggs describe a personal struggle to come to terms with the results ...
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Narrative, What Narrative? from 2019-04-17T16:58:57
This week - Narrative, What Narrative? The story of a personal philosophical quest to found a moral basis for society. Through the eyes of Descartes and Hume, our world view is seen as failing to ...
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Big Data, Robo Nanny and the Row for The Zapper from 2019-03-31T07:45:41
The Social Contract is broken. The state can no longer uphold its side of the bargain. For deep state to maintain power, for the good of all, it must act. And the choice it faces comes down to bein...
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American Inventors&The Cure For Extremism from 2019-03-21T16:45:53
In this 14th episode of COW - The Podcast, Ant Biggs explores the links between Mainstream Politics, Media And Extremism in order to open up a discussion about the biology of xenophobia, and the de...
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No 7 Acts of Sickening Violence Involving Puppies... Click Here from 2019-03-11T16:15:42
You are listening to episode 13 of COW - can of worms - the podcast. Ironically titled 7 Acts of Sickening Violence, Involving Puppies... click here or To What End, the battle for our attention. In...
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New Worlds, Feeling Good, and The Biology of Free Speech. from 2019-03-04T16:16
New Worlds, Feeling Good and The Biology of Free Speech. Episode 12 of COW - The Podcast. How conversation, free speech and a close examination of our personal beliefs and behaviours may form the b...
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Tackling The Brain Hack - What's Making You Tick? from 2019-02-25T16:26:21
Ant Biggs explores the cognitive, narrative landscape; A human condition of unavoidable complicity, as both hacker and hacked is exposed. A landscape full of danger that appears to be at the same t...
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Free will, Emergence and the Biological Event Horizon from 2019-02-18T16:12:41
Recognising the attachment we have to the power of truth, whatever that may be Ant Biggs takes a look at the important dilemma presented by the philosophical concepts of free will, v determinism. ...
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Beauty, Truth And the Eye of the Observer from 2019-02-11T16:25:54
This week a tangled web and at the center of it ideas to come back to time and again. a look at the world physics, and its recent history, the quest to describe our physical reality and a dip into...
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Language, Logic and Escaping The Cage from 2019-01-28T17:10:47
Language, Logic and Escaping The Cage
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Entrance Not For Everyone! For Madmen only! from 2019-01-24T14:21:11
Entrance Not For Everyone! For Madmen only!
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Cognitive Bias and The New Orthodoxy from 2019-01-24T14:16:05
Cognitive Bias and The New Orthodoxy
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What's Real, What's Not and So What? from 2019-01-24T14:07:21
The age old philosophical problem of idealism versus materialism explored. How narrative defines our reality. How our reality may be deceptive. How physics is a narrative, one among many and how th...
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Why We Care, Why We Don't and How We Could... from 2019-01-24T14:02:44
The Evolutionary Value of Empathy, Compassion, and the meaning of Fatigue.
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Neural Plasticity, Trauma Bonding and The State from 2019-01-24T13:53:32
Neural Plasticity, Trauma Bonding and The State
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The Opener from 2019-01-22T15:04:32
A journey of self discovery, a tale of a jarring call to adventure, of suppressed instinct and a creative "curse" in which he begins to question everything, and begins to apply the latest science a...
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