Aired 12-9-09 on BBC Two "In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis. In his lengthy career, Sir David has watched... continue reading

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Taken from the description of original video "Perimeter Institute brings great thinkers from around the world to Canada to share their ideas on a wide variety of interesting and topical subjects. These... continue reading

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"Skeptical empiricist Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable", has bracing things to say about the future. It is inevitable that we will be massively blindsided by... continue reading

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The guy who invented the (in)famous "chinese room"-thought experiment talks about his views on consciousness and artificial intelligence. (Lecture at the Almaden Institute Conference on Cognitive Computing) ... continue reading

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Author George Lakoff discusses his book "Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea" as a part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place Thursday, July 12, 2007 at Google headquarters... continue reading