Posts Tagged ‘Philosophy’
The Last Hurrah
A comedy filmed in a single continuous shot. Set at a graduation party in Los Angeles, an eclectic group of brainy philosophy students, train-hopping hippies, aspiring prophets and drug-addled hipsters come together for one wild night. At the eye of the storm are three best friends, all with the same problem – women. Jason can’t [...]
Return to the Source: Philosophy and The Matrix
A documentary about the film The Matrix and its relationship to philosophy and philosophical themes. The discussion is broad, and explains how masterfully and seamlessly the movie touches on everything from Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Borges, Nozick, LaPlace, Hume, Schopenhauer to religion, meaning, purpose, causality, free will, consciousness, love, intuition, etc.
Terence McKenna And The Future Of Our Imaginations
“History is a wink of God’s eye. 25,000 years maximum. A geological instant. Which begins with people chipping stone flint and which ends with people walking through a violet doorway into a super-civilization spread throughout space and time, through levels of continui we can barely imagine. We are like paleolithic man staring dumbly into his [...]
Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness
This six part series on philosophy is presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life. Episode 1: Socrates on Self-Confidence Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they [...]
Dangerous Knowledge
This documentary looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers [...]
Mathematical Infinity and Human Destiny
There are two approaches to mathematical infinity. It can be seen as defining limiting cases that can never be realized or as existing in some philosophical sense. These mathematical approaches parallel approaches to meaning and value that I call absolutist and evolutionary. The absolutist sees ultimate meaning as something that exists most commonly in the [...]
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College Inc.
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Cyber Warfare: Fighting in the Fifth Dimension
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Occupy: The Movie
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2012: Time For Change
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Inside the Mind of Google
May 10, 2012 08:05
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For those of you blocked by region: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5901853/sci
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