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Welcome to the April 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are
Human beings are small compared to the universe, but we’re very important to ourselves. Humanism can be thought of as
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Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape. Today, we’re joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at
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Welcome to the February 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who
Human beings have developed wondrous capacities to take in information about the world, mull it over, think about a suite
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