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Subscribe here: https://iai.tv/subscribe Host of HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 💡https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tvhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3ml4pmzss2t2qMoral concern about OnlyFans is often presented as a defence of social values. | https://bit.ly/3PiQGtM But Farha Khalidi argues it masks a long history of double standards: one in which male consumption of adult content was normalised but female profit from it is treated as cultural collapse. 05 May 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4pmzss2t2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3ml4iwky3xj2mWittgenstein and Heidegger both felt that language, for all its power, keeps us at arm's length from the world it tries to describe. | https://bit.ly/4pesndP Philosopher Steven Bindeman draws on the two philosophers to argue that words don't just fall short, but actively separate us from reality. 05 May 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4iwky3xj2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3ml3ztuhw7p23The paradox of Schrödinger's cat still baffles physicists a century into quantum mechanics. | https://bit.ly/4eZJOvI But Nadia Blackshaw proposes the “many worlds” interpretation is wrong, and we should instead pursue the possibility of “many minds”.05 May 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml3ztuhw7p23https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3ml2kxaww4d23Our next two IAI Live Events tackle some of the most pressing questions of our time — from the psychology of distraction to the foundations of the universe. | https://iai.tv/live/iai-live-may-consciousness-attention-and-the-age-of-distraction Find out how to join here.04 May 2026 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2kxaww4d23https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3ml2762hv7f2xThe wealth of the richest in our societies has grown disproportionately over the last few years. | https://bit.ly/49mlNeF To tackle this economic inequality, Ingrid Robeyns proposes her limitarianism, or a hard limit on the wealth any one person can accumulate. But will it work in practice? 04 May 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2762hv7f2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkzjeuibfl2d“Why is there something rather than nothing?” goes the famous question. But David Pearce argues that the answer may be that there is precisely nothing. | https://bit.ly/3QDFZCx Because amplitudes in quantum mechanics are complex numbers, summing two amplitudes can yield zero.04 May 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzjeuibfl2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkszivo5cf2zOur screens are engineered to capture us, but is the attention crisis really about consciousness itself? | https://iai.tv/live/iai-live-may-consciousness-attention-and-the-age-of-distraction Four pioneering thinkers challenge one of our deepest assumptions on May 11th. Find out how to join here.01 May 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkszivo5cf2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mksh2r57w52xIs the belief in progress just a drug the thinking classes have been feeding themselves? | https://bit.ly/4tqQeIG Former intelligence officer Andy Owen draws on John Gray to ask whether liberalism's collapse was written into its utopian DNA all along. https://iai.tv/articles/john-gray-and-the-end-of-the-wests-utopian-dream-auid-326601 May 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksh2r57w52xhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkrywluijb2aIn an age of unprecedented access to information, the powerful are still more protected than ever through the collective institutional instinct to look away. | https://bit.ly/42codsu Narain Batra argues that most institutions remain quiet until it no longer costs them to speak out.01 May 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrywluijb2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkq5cfsnv226Despite a widespread European decline in church attendance, surveys show young Westerners are more drawn to mysticism than their grandparents. | https://bit.ly/4t3Ol3G Will the future bring a return to mysticism and spirituality? David Pearce, Naomi Goulder, and Rupert Sheldrake debate. 30 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkq5cfsnv226https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkphmhauop24Is forgetting a flaw in the human brain, or an invaluable asset? | https://bit.ly/48tBYqq Neuroscientist Oliver Hardt argues that forgetting is crucial for some of the most important parts of our brain function. It isn’t a flaw of human memory, but an incredibly useful part of its design.30 Apr 2026 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkphmhauop24https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mknmthguz52sShakespeare is often hailed as the ultimate master of words. Yet his plays return again and again to the moments where language fails. | https://bit.ly/4cEUlLo Simon Palfrey argues Shakespeare purposefully pushed language to its breaking point to show our deepest experiences are beyond words. 29 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknmthguz52shttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkng4xi2em24From the Crusades to the Iraq War, morality has long justified conflict; but more and more nations are now turning to self interest. | https://iai.tv/video/a-world-without-morality Join @MearsheimerJ, @KenRoth, and Christina Lamb as they debate whether morality still matters in world affairs.29 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkng4xi2em24https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkmx2ff5iv2xThe rise of populism has, in turn, been lauded as the defeat of neoliberalism. So what does the new world look like? | https://bit.ly/422Xj6q Join Wendy Brown and Sophie Scott Brown to discuss how antidemocratic politics intertwine with neoliberal economics to create today's political climate.29 Apr 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmx2ff5iv2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkliign6bp26Is the attention crisis really a crisis of meaning? | https://bit.ly/4cRS8Lo Psychologist and author Gloria Mark explores how meaning and attention are deeply intertwined, and what their unravelling reveals about consciousness itself. Join her solo talk on May 11th. https://iai.tv/live/iai-live-may-consciousness-attention-and-the-age-of-distraction28 Apr 2026 21:07 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkliign6bp26https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkl4enr5k62bMost physicists are materialists; others have argued reality is a simulation or a hallucination of the brain. | https://bit.ly/4ePhk7T Andrew T. Jaffe challenges all of these views, proposing an alternative consciousness-first theory where space and time arise as within a dream. 28 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl4enr5k62bhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkkvnzoczh2eWill AI enable us to make important new scientific discoveries? | https://iai.tv/video/ai-and-the-story-of-the-universe-marika-taylor Join former student of Stephen Hawking and black role researcher, Marika Taylor, as she argues AI can help us do better science.28 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkvnzoczh2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkknci2wv623One of Britain’s most provocative thinkers, John Gray is a political philosopher famous for dismantling liberalism. | https://bit.ly/4cTjDEu In this conversation with Hilary Lawson, Gray argues the real purpose of philosophy is disruption, not conversion.28 Apr 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkknci2wv623https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkilvnf6tm24Despite strides in renewable energy, net zero has become a culture war battleground. | https://bit.ly/4e6sK70 James Bacchus, Leah Downey, and Kai Heron debate whether liberal democracies can still lead on climate, or whether the challenge demands a new political model.27 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkilvnf6tm24https://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkhw4khyjt2zJessica West claims there is a ‘fog of peace’ allowing military build-up in space and threatening to spread to the moon. | https://bit.ly/3QMx3dT If the satellites we rely on to detect missile launches and communicate in crises are disrupted, this could have catastrophic consequences.27 Apr 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhw4khyjt2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkg3gn2ohq2xEmotion is widely treated as the enemy of clear thinking, something to be managed or kept at arm's length from serious reasoning. | https://bit.ly/48Rp1qk Daniel Vanello argues the opposite: that emotions are shaped by our values and fully open to reasoned evaluation and criticism. 26 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkg3gn2ohq2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkfuq3xh3k2bHas psychology truly moved on from lacking empirical support and scientific rigour? https://bit.ly/48jk6yd Join Nick Brown, John Ioannidis, David Yeager, and host @NikiSethSmith to question if we should instead view psychology as functioning to shape norms rather than uncovering universal truths. https://iai.tv/video/unmasking-the-mind26 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfuq3xh3k2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkffng56ks2dFew philosophers have undergone as dramatic an intellectual transformation as Wittgenstein, whose later work amounts to a thoroughgoing rejection of his earlier self. | https://iai.tv/articles/wittgenstein-vs-wittgenstein-lee-braver-auid-2615 Lee Braver traces the steps of that remarkable change.26 Apr 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkffng56ks2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkdkxpuii62zRichard Rorty argued that philosophy's ambition to mirror reality is not just misguided but harmful. | https://bit.ly/497XjWp Rorty believed we should treat philosophy more like poetry than science, remaking our vocabularies rather than searching for final truths, writes Elin Danielsen Huckerby. 25 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdkxpuii62zhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkdeb5v5rb2aCould a 1924 novel about a Swiss sanatorium tell us more about the collapse of liberalism than a century of political science? | https://bit.ly/4cpvjQi Oliver Adelson writes on how Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain eerily predicted the crisis now tearing liberal democracy apart. https://iai.tv/articles/thomas-mann-and-the-fall-of-the-west-auid-326525 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdeb5v5rb2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkcv6iwbfh2pImaginary numbers sit at the very foundation of quantum mechanics. | https://iai.tv/video/tim-maudlin-why-imaginary-numbers-are-central-to-quantum-physics Tim Maudlin argues their appearance in Schrödinger's equation follows from the kind of wave-like structure that fundamental dynamics requires. 25 Apr 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkcv6iwbfh2phttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkb7k2rpab2dCan an AI ever break the rules of the existing art world and open the door to something genuinely new? | https://bit.ly/3Q7Qcqm Henry Shevlin argues this debate is nothing new. The more interesting question isn't whether AI can make art, but whether human creativity can push beyond it.24 Apr 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb7k2rpab2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkb2ixhbd52mWords are often treated as neutral tools, labels we attach to the world to make it easier to navigate. | https://iai.tv/articles/language-conceals-reality-auid-2756 But language is far from passive, and the way we describe things shapes the way we see them, argues Nick Enfield. 24 Apr 2026 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb2ixhbd52mhttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkatscrnbs2sAI has generated more images in 18 months than photography has in 150 years. So what does a photograph even mean anymore? | https://bit.ly/4mKfbfB Philosopher Peter Szendy on why Susan Sontag's "ecology of images" needs to be radically rethought for the age of invisible visual culture. https://iai.tv/articles/photographs-are-constantly-in-motion-auid-289724 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkatscrnbs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/iai.tv/post/3mkaer55qad2sChaos, uncertainty, and noise are often thought of as getting in the way of an organism's plans. | https://bit.ly/48lb2ZO But @conorfeehly.bsky.social argues biologists are increasingly discovering ways in which life necessarily uses chaos as a creative tool for adapting to an uncertain world. 24 Apr 2026 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:4rbsi3zu2tan23k3ehveyexi/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkaer55qad2s