The Universe in Consciousness (w/ Bernardo Kastrup), Intrusive Thoughts, Phones Ruin Drivers, and Baader-Meinhof

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — with some help from scientist, computer engineer, and philosophy writer Bernardo Kastrup — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com, plus the answer to a listener question to help
0:05.2	you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:06.5	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.5	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.5	Today you learn how to handle those intrusive thoughts that almost everybody has,
0:12.6	how your phone makes you a worse driver,
0:14.4	even if you don't touch it.
0:15.6	You're also going to hear from Bernardo Kastrup,
0:17.4	who we wrote about yesterday on curiosity.com.
0:19.6	He'll be joining us to discuss his new paper,
0:21.6	The Universe in Consciousness.
0:23.2	Plus we'll top off today's episode Sunday with a sprinkle of curiosity.
0:26.8	Where Ashley digs into a question from an awesome listener like you.
0:29.5	That's right.
0:30.3	Today's question comes from Caitlin in beautiful Helena,
0:33.0	who wants to know why we consciously recognize something more often
0:36.8	after it's been connected to a significant event.
0:38.8	For example, her brother keeps hearing a song that was played at her graduation,
0:42.4	but he says he doesn't remember ever hearing it before the event. So what gives?
0:46.0	Stay tuned and we'll explain.
0:48.0	Let's set us some curiosity.
0:49.0	Yesterday we ran a story about a new paper by Bernardo Castrup, a scientist, computer engineer and philosophy writer, about the nature of the universe
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