This Nobel Prize Winner Has a Really Strange Theory About the Mind @PursuitofWonder
This Nobel Prize Winner Has a Really Strange Theory About the Mind  @PursuitofWonder
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In this video, we explore one of the strangest Nobel Prize speeches ever given. Instead of reflecting on his career, thanking anyone, or discussing culture or art, author and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee told a short parable that seemingly undermined the very nature of the self and reality.

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