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The House of Wisdom and the legacy of Arabic Science

by Jim Al-Khalili
The House of Wisdom and the legacy of Arabic Science
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 3745 views
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In a way that never took place with early Christianity, the spread of Islam heralded a remarkable period of scientific advances, particularly during the golden age of the Abbasids of Baghdad between the 8th and 11th centuries AD.

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Decoding consciousness

by Geraint Rees
Decoding consciousness
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1340 views
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Everything we know about the world comes to us through our brain. Yet for each of us our own conscious mental world of thoughts and feelings is isolated and private. Despite centuries of research, language or gesture remains the only way we can disco....

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The uses of infinity: a philosopher looks at emergent phenomena in physics

by Jeremy Butterfield
The uses of infinity: a philosopher looks at emergent phenomena in physics
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1041 views
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Emergence, and its contrary, reduction, are buzz-words in both physics and philosophy. Both physicists and philosophers disagree about the extent to which we can understand large-scale or complex phenomena in terms of their microscopic parts.

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