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It’s always pointed out, indicated, in an elitist way, an intellectualist way of Lights. And, in fact, this truth, at least this Diderotian stream, tried to retake and radicalize Bacon’s project....

I think I didn't had the appreciation that there was a moment, you know, I started to... To have a closer relation to poetry, and I thought, as a child, because my father was a poet... because...

For this first session we invited professor José Martinho, who is simultaneously, a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. I suppose everyone read the small curriculum we divulged; I'm not going to...

The multiplicity of the crisis we're facing, and which aren't only economic, demographic, related to civilization, to belief, it is the crisis of humanity which cannot constitute...

We know that we are limited beings, we know that we are going to die, and that those who we love might also, all of a sudden, die. And so rises the issue of knowing the kind of relation we want to...

I started to noticing that it is the definition itself of what our body is, of this sense of being, it’s the more famous English expression: “sense of self”, it is malleable. If I put on those...

I believe conscience isn’t anywhere, it’s in all. Conscience is an emerging feature of the fact that we have hundreds of billions of interconnected neurons. It emerged like the weather emerges from...

There’s a famous experiment by an American investigator named Elizabeth Loftus, who has published several versions of the it in 1975. The experiment was like this: she exposed a person to a movie...

A city can be very powerful building equality. We are talking about income equality, with capitalism we see that everyone accepts today as the best way of managing most of society’s resources…...

Somehow, in man's evolutionary route, has happened the sophistication - the enormous - sophistication of brain and of the mental states that escort our experiences. Exactly why this has...