HoP 434 - The Eye Sees Not Itself But By...

A royal scholar and philosopher sets aside the tribulations of her family to debate Descartes over the relation between mind and body and the nature of happiness. 

Descartes’ “provisional” morality and his views on free will and virtue. 

Descartes’ Meditations caused controversy as soon as it appeared. In this episode we look at criticisms including the “Cartesian Circle,” and how Descartes answered them. 

And at last I see the light. In episode 64 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss vision in the second installment of their ongoing series on the five senses. They discuss the prevalence of visual metaphors for knowledge, and why sight has historically been the most privileged of ... Show More

When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com ... Show More

Zaina Al-Mohtaseb, MD, and Douglas D. Koch, MD, delve into the realm of optics and aberrations. They cover a range of topics, including spherical and chromatic aberrations, ABBE numbers, and residual refractive error. Additionally, they explore various intraocular lens (IOL) desi ... Show More

If you had to name the innovations that have transformed human civilisation, you might suggest the printing press or the Internet, but the humble pair of spectacles has also revolutionised the way many of us experience the world. It's said that an astonishing three quarters of th ... Show More

Some may think evil eye is just a myth...something that only the superstitious believe in and protect themselves from. But the Kabbalists knew differently. Judgement, the driver of evil eye, has only downsides to both parties. Join Elisheva Balas and David Ghiyam for the Weekly E ... Show More

في هذه الحلقة المثيرة للتفكير، نتعمق في أهمية الوعي الذاتي وفهم وجهات النظر المتنوعة. انضم إلي وأنا أستكشف إدراك أن الآخرين قد ينظرون إلينا بشكل مختلف، مع التأكيد على قيمة القبول والاعتراف بأن الآراء المختلفة لا تحددنا بطبيعتها على أنها جيدة أو سيئة. اكتشف التأثير التحويلي للبقاء ... Show More

In this episode, I will talk about perception and the role it plays in how we experience our reality. Reality is in the eye of the beholder. “Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises...The meeting of the three is contact.”With contact as a requisite condition, the ... Show More

When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness — and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/ ... Show More

As you age, you gradually lose the ability to refocus your eyes -- a phenomenon as old as humanity itself -- leading to a reliance on bifocals, contacts and procedures like LASIK surgery. Electrical engineer Nitish Padmanaban offers a glimpse of cutting-edge tech that's truly a s ... Show More

In this episode, we talk about learning to observe our minds and realize its nature as an endless gatherer of thoughts, emotions and expectations.