Decision Making

Decision Making

A man sits on a stool in front of a backdrop displaying a declining graph with bar charts and red trend lines, suggesting a downward trend in data.
1 min
“Let me walk you through the biggest traps that you should be aware of that are a danger to your financial wellbeing.”
3 min
Philosophy asks if free will is real. Neuroscience reveals why the answer is more complicated than we expected.
Unlikely Collaborators
Black and white cutout of a smiling man's face with red heart shapes drawn over his eyes on a black background.
17 min
“No matter what their gods were, what they did for a living, what they wore, the songs they sang, everything varies except love, and everybody loves.”
A person walks barefoot on a slackline stretched high above the ocean, with one arm raised for balance and cliffs visible at each end.
5 min
“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”
A man sits on a chair in a photo studio, flanked by black-and-white illustrations of an early human ancestor on the left and a modern man running on the right.
1 min
“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”
A hand holding a sealed envelope emerges from turbulent ocean waves against a black background.
13 min
“All information technologies up to the 21st century were organic networks based on our organic brain.”
A silhouette profile of a person with long hair against a blue background featuring faint circuit board patterns; a warm light highlights their face.
10 min
Today’s technologist archetypes share a blind spot. Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute explains why “philosophy is essential” when building planetary-scale technology.
Cosmos Institute