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Consciousness & cognition Videos Recommended on Hacker News (60)

Consciousness & cognition is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 60 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 164 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Mind and consciousness: theories of consciousness, free will, intelligence, artificial minds, Penrose, Dennett, cognitive science, perception illusions, qualia, hemispheric brain theories.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on George Lakoff: Moral Politics: “Changed how I listen - to anyone - forever.” — an HN commenter, 2021.

12 mo on HN

George Lakoff: Moral Politics

University of California Television (UCTV)

3 HN recommender · 2016–2024

11 mo on HN

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018

The Artificial Intelligence Channel

12 HN recommender · 2018–2024

8 mo on HN

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

Lex Fridman

6 HN recommender · 2020–2021

5 mo on HN

The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

The Royal Institution

4 HN recommender · 2017–2018

5 mo on HN

Feynman: How to think 1 of 2 FUN TO IMAGINE 11

Christopher Sykes

5 HN recommender · 2011–2024

4 mo on HN

Consciousness & cognition Videos Recommended on Hacker News (60)

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George Lakoff: Moral Politics

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - NeurIPS 2018

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

The Egg - A Short Story

Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

You Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Stranger

Debate Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault - On human nature [Subtitled]

Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #101

The Neuroscience of Consciousness – with Anil Seth

Feynman: How to think 1 of 2 FUN TO IMAGINE 11

If Brains are Computers, Who Designs the Software? - with Daniel Dennett

Michael Levin: Consciousness, Biology, Universal Mind, Emergence, Cancer Research

Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Terence Mckenna - Culture is your operating system

Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | James Flynn

Information, Evolution, and intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer

My stroke of insight | Jill Bolte Taylor | TED

Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #269

RSA ANIMATE: The Divided Brain

35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine

Do we see reality as it is? | Donald Hoffman | TED

How did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey

Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips

Jordan Peterson - Controversial Facts about IQ

Joscha: From Computation to Consciousness (31c3)

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (@Harvard Science of Psychedelics Club)

Roger Penrose: Physics of Consciousness and the Infinite Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #85

Noam Chomsky - "The machine, the ghost, and the limits of understanding"

Free Energy Principle — Karl Friston

The Default Mode Network & End of Suffering - Gary Weber

Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology

Lecture by Douglas Hofstadter: Albert Einstein on Light; Light on Albert Einstein

I have APHANTASIA (and you may too...without realising it!)

Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim

Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN