Aperture
Your window to the Bigger Picture. This channel is about philosophy, psychology, and society, where we explore the deep questions of existence and where humanity is headed.
Here’s what you’ll find:
- Big ideas about consciousness, meaning, and what it means to be alive
- Discussions about life, death, purpose, and what we value
- Explorations of the impact of artificial intelligence, the singularity, and technological change
- Theories and stories that help you see how the present links to our future
If you’ve ever wondered why we exist, what shapes our reality, or where all of this is going, this is for you. Subscribe to Aperture and be part of thinking about humanity’s next chapters.
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Imagine your mind had a set of switches, and you could permanently flip just one. Which would you choose? Defend your choice in the comments ⬇️ #Aperture
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Scientists can wake a sleeping mouse with a beam of light, calm its fear, and plant a memory of something that never happened 🤯🧠 Our latest episode explores the Nobel Prize discovery behind it, and what it means for free will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6M-... #Aperture
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Does thinking about life make it funnier, or does feeling it make it sadder? Where do you land? Defend your stance in the comments! ⬇️ #Aperture
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One invention vanishes from history, and no one remembers it ever existed. Which would you choose to erase? #Aperture
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The man who invented the first commercial microprocessor felt a beam of white energy erupt from his chest one night, and concluded that the universe itself is conscious. Our latest episode explores panpsychism, the theory that everything is conscious, and whether physics can back it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTklJ... #Aperture
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Your past self may not be gone. In one view of time, every moment of your life still exists, as real as this one. Our latest marathon episode follows that idea from your past self to the end of the universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsDsd... #Aperture
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There's one seat left in the lifeboat and three people who need it. What should decide who takes it? Defend your choice in the comments ⬇️ #Aperture
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You’re sure you know why you do what you do. So was everyone who confidently defended a choice they never made. Our latest episode climbs every level of self-awareness, and where most of us get stuck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8ua...
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You can relive one moment of your life exactly as it happened, but you cannot change anything. Which would you choose? #Aperture
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Wolfgang Pauli spent thirty years chasing one number: 137. In 1958, the hospital room where he was dying turned out to be room 137. Our latest episode follows Carl Jung’s strangest idea, and whether physics has finally caught up to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utrku... #Aperture
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