TED Talk on the Role of Metaphor

Here is a fella named James Geary talking about the role of metaphor:


I find it interesting but I'm not sure if it's sufficiently clear about how fundamental metaphor is to our thought processes, but of course, there are severe limitations in the format TED offers.

Alva Noe's Embodied Philosophy

Here's a set of videos featuring Berkeley professor of philosophy Alva Noe, author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Body and Other Lessons From the Biology of Consciousness.

Seeing Compassion

Here's a talk that really helps me envision the moral foundations of governance.