Little Brains Big Topics Mohammad Nemati

William M. Arkin (born May 15, 1956) is an American political commentator, best-selling author, journalist, activist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier. He has previously served as a military affairs analyst for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.  

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Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992-2014), and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation.  Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, and antibiotics. He is one of the most public faces of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism. As a result, he has been the frequent target of hate mail and death threats.  

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*Correction: Donald Hoffman is currently a Professor at Emeritus University.

Donald D. Hoffman is a Full Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Emeritus. He is the author of Visual Intelligence, as well as over one hundred scholarly articles on various aspects of human perception and cognition. He received a distinguished Distinguished Scientific Award of American Psychological Association for early career research into visual perception, the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation, and the Troland Research Award of the US National Academy of Sciences. His TED Talk entitled “Do we see reality as it is?” has been viewed over 2.5 million times. In this interview we discuss his latest book, The Case Against Reality.  

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We discuss: 

Evolutionary Game Theory and the relationship between Truth and our brains 

Simulation Theory 

What the sceptic think of Professor Hoffman’s theory of Truth 

Space-time & Quantum Mechanics 

Whether mathematics and logic are grounded in truth 

Whether the Scientific method can ascertain reality 

Theory of conscious agents 

Free Will 

Holographic Universe 

Natural Selection 

Presentism vs Eternalism 

Meditation 

What keeps Professor Hoffman awake at night 

Meaning of life   



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Richard Walter Wrangham (born 1948) is an English anthropologist and primatologist. His research and writing have involved ape behavior, human evolution, violence, and cooking.

In this episode we discuss: 


Biological Anthropology 
Humans 
Importance of fire Use of fire at increasing our brain size 
How our biology depends on culture Difference between roles of men and women in Hunter-Gatherer societies 
Relationships in Hunter-Gatherer societies 
Why all human societies have been patriarchal and possibility of matriarchal societies 
Warfare  

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human 

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The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent 

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Topics Discussed : 


Your Brain Is A Time Machine 
Progress in neuroscience 
Presentism vs Eternalism 
Fear of Death and Religion 
Prospective Timing vs Retrospective Timing 
Drugs 
Meditation & Hypnosis 
Consciousness 
Free will  

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