22:00 – FREE

What Are Neurons For? SAND19 US

With Chris Fields

We are aware of thinking and acting, and we typically think this is what neurons and brains are for.

15:00 – FREE

How we Experience Awe

With Beau Lotto and Cirque du Soleil

Neuroscientist Beau Lotto conducted an ambitious study with Cirque du Soleil on the emotion of awe

1:26:00 – FREE

The Reality Illusion

With Sam Harris, Annaka Harris, and Donald Hoffman

Sam and Annaka Harris speak with Donald Hoffman about his book The Case Against Reality.

24:00 – FREE

The Skeptics Have No Clothes

With David Lorimer and Zaya Benazzo

Zaya Benazzo interviews David Lorimer at SAND19 Italy

A New Type of Signal in the Human Brain

By Mike McRae

Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.

26:00 – FREE

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - SAND19 US

With David Eagleman

If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain's function, what is all the rest doing?

22:00 – FREE

The Brain: A computer or Quantum Orchestra?

With Stuart Hameroff

The latest research into the relationship between the brain's neuronal firing and consciousness.

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

20:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Can a Computer become Conscious?

With Federico Faggin

How can there be intelligence without consciousness?

28:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Are We Just Another Primate?

With Robert Sapolsky

Is there any behavior that we can say for certain is unique to humans?

Is Reality Real? How Evolution Blinds us to the Truth About the World

We assume our senses see reality as it is—but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

18:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Mystery of Free Will

With Donald Hoffman

Donald Hoffman reminds us that we can predict people's choices up to seven seconds before they are conscious of making that choice.

We are not our brain: How to break the spell of the neurosciences

By Riccardo Manzotti

What are we? A soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? Are we our bodies or neural patterns in our brains?

Raising a New Generation of Super-Children

By Peta Morton

In a leafy, seemingly conventional corner of suburban Essex in southeast England ordinary children are learning in the most extraordinary of ways.

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Emotional and Spiritual Maturity

With Gabor Maté and Adyashanti

In a rare meeting of minds, and a rare exploration of whether there is a predilection for spirituality, Gabor Mate asks Adyashanti to expand on passages from his recent book My Secret Is Silence.

53:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — Human Potential Is Infinite

With A.H. Almaas

At his SAND18 appearance A.H. Almaas talks about the importance and mystery of being human, and of the great opportunity and potential of human beings.

26:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — What is a Healthy Mind?

With Daniel Siegel

Daniel Siegel introduces the Wheel of Awareness, a representation of the structure of mind. Research…

Near-Death Experiences are Real: A Rebuttal

By Lynn K. Russell

Just as artists are driven to create, scientists need to prove that something is as it seems. Their mantra is, don’t tell me, show me through repeated tests that arrive at the same results every time.

Binaural Beats

By Alexandra Sheren

These days people have lost their connection with many powerful elements of energy and nature, sound being one of them—as a means of healing and brain entertainment.

It’s Time to Allow Vibration to Have its Way

By Greg Sipp

For well over a century, scientists have been wrestling with what quantum mechanics has been revealing to us about fundamental reality

The Hardest Problem: Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness

By Susan Blackmore

Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?

The Neurobiology of Love

By Shawn Radcliffe

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

Robert Lanza: Consciousness Is the Key to Understanding Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim.