C. Stephen Evans - Theological Anthropology: What is Human Mind?

[@danielsayre3385]

I think your perspectives on free will, and the self, are very valuable. I'm glad I saw this video

[@ibperson7765]

I’m increasingly baffled at how I could have ever fallen for physicalism/materialism. It is so obviously impossible.

[@alanbrady420]

The mind holds internal memory’s and our consciousness can look at all the old memories and make predictions for what’s best for us each as an individual for our future and also here and now predictions of the best ways to go forward. Although some of us live in the past and can’t stop looking at the old memories and making predictions for the future based on our old memories.

[@alanbrady420]

@@dianneforit5409 adaptive advantage is it by making predictions? It’s still not as easy as that or one of us would have a Nobel prise! Personally I think consciousness is what intelligence feels like living in the real world with here and now and with internal memories and like you said we have the adaptive advantage of making abstract predictions about the future.

[@ujjwalbhattarai8670]

Human mind is consciousness. Time=everything. Just our body was nothing before birth after death we be same. Now we are body of consciousness which is under time limitation.

[@ShutUpWesley]

“Ack! Ack! Ack!”

[@AdamRTNewman]

I'm curious as to what C. Stephen Evans would think of the anthropology underlying the Christology which *simultaneously*: i) Asserts that Christ's human body, human soul, human spirit, human mind etc must all be non-divine created entities, otherwise Christ isn't a complete human, ii) Asserts that the humanity of Christ is impersonal, but is personalised by the divine person of God the Son.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Does human being have quantum wave as well as body? Could quantum wave of person bring about mind from physical brain?

[@kallianpublico7517]

Communication can be one way or two way: you can receive or tansmit or you can receive and transmit. Is consciousness also one way or two way? And is one way consciousness the same as two way consciousness?

[@saliksayyar9793]

Journey of the Self is the basis of the philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938). It precedes the body and moves from stage to stage of existence

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

If the atoms in body are changing, is there some part of the body that does not change, or just the form of the body not change?

[@projectmalus]

awareness doesn't seem to change in quality, only quantity.

[@mrinaljyotichoudhury]

Can We understand a lot about human mind and consciousness using Lucid Dreaming?

[@soubhikmukherjee6871]

Absolutely 💯. Follow Leo Gura.

[@mrinaljyotichoudhury]

@@soubhikmukherjee6871 I am a regular lucid dreamer. Are you also?

[@francesco5581]

@@mrinaljyotichoudhury well at very least you can understand that the consciousness accept as a reality even things that are not "physical" . I think is an important thing.

[@ShutUpWesley]

The worst part about lucid dreaming, is that your fucking mind wants to wake up, when you get concious/realize that you are dreaming....

[@mrinaljyotichoudhury]

@@ShutUpWesley Yes that's absolutely correct. It happened to me also in thr begining. But over time with practice I remember within the dream that last time or before I woke up because of lack of concentration. It usually happens when you get lucid without any plan or without any plan to solve something.

[@infividsgaming]

Without consciousness everything is meaningless. So, consciousness must be the fundamental reality. Only because you are aware and conscious, you are able to experience this physical reality. Without consciousness or awareness, physical reality is meaningless.

[@andreasplosky8516]

You are presupposing that there must be meaning. Reality most likely does not care about meaning, and our desire for it. Reality just is what it is, with and without consciousness to perceive it. I see no reason to believe that consciousness is a prerequisite for existence at all, especially considering that almost all of reality exists unobserved, unperceived anyway.

[@con.troller4183]

The corollary is, if reality has no meaning, there is no consciousness. Meaning is a value judgement, not a manifest quality. Therefore reality has no meaning in the causative sense.

[@infividsgaming]

@@andreasplosky8516 everything has a meaning. "Almost all of reality exist unobserved, unperceived" How do you know that? You are assuming that with the help of your consciousness. Without consciousness and awareness you are not able to tell whether reality exist or not.

[@lissysaju3241]

@@infividsgaming circular reasonings both of you will get trapped in circular arguments u should understand begging the question

[@andreasplosky8516]

@@con.troller4183 Well said.

[@ingenuity168]

Dreams are already so mysterious.

[@907-q7u]

If you don't have internal monologue, there is no "you", you're just a body with sensory layers that store (in memory) the human experience the best way it can given the missing identity layer. You cannot achieve homeostasis without it.

[@ujjwalbhattarai8670]

Neither we know what was we before born nor we can think what will be future or after death. But everything is existing in present our mind is unable to catch it. So sad. Everything is in time just we are living in. We are living in past present and future same time just we are unable to dictate consciousness. When we will be able to live highly conscious life then we just can live according to our choice. We can change our body like cloud and can live according to ours choose.

[@thehonorablejiveturkey6068]

How can freedom be real when you dont determine when your born or when you die

[@ShutUpWesley]

You can actually have a say in the latter. Not total controll, but you could say: "Fuck you life, I did not ask to be here, but I well damn choose to go now. I can Flyyyyyyyy" Sploosh!

[@juvenalhahne7750]

Se ninguém pede pra nascer, pra morrer os suicidas podem querer. Não estará aqui um argumento favorável a liberdade a partir da necessidade?

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

Self has causal powers. Something that I'm doing caused me to get hurt, by the way that I did it, I caused myself to get hurt. My usage of the car caused wear and tear and it broke.

[@nineironshore]

Never heard of a non reductive physicalists assert top down causation. It's always been epiphenomenal. Strong emergence is a different idea altogether.

[@givememytacobell9397]

I have a question for you Doctor. Do you practice Lucid Dreaming?

[@soubhikmukherjee6871]

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come-Rabindranath Tagore.

[@micheldisclafani2343]

In the world mind is the glory of all that imagination can create, we as human enjoy transcendency.In reality the only difference with any living creature is form and nature, we share intelligence and life. Philosophers and Theologian enjoy words, by the billions and books by the millions! Animals have only one ambition, live life to the best they can. They are the Masters of living, if we could adapt our bodily and mind versatility to their pragmatism the world would become paradise, no war would ever happened.

[@chrisc1257]

There is consciousness and there is superconsciousness. Which of the two possesses free will?

[@williamburts5495]

What does it mean to be a person ? Answer: self-awareness.

[@bradleymosman8325]

"I cannot grasp all that I am." Saint Augustine of Hippo said these words in the forth century c.e. Here in the 21st century, we've experienced the Age of Reason (which was vaporized at Hiroshima) and the Enlightenment. Yet this collection of intellectuals still can't grasp all that we are. I think I'll look somewhere else.

[@jamesc0890]

This guy reminds me of Jeff Goldbloom (from Independence Day w/ Will Smith) 🤣 they need to do a movie, commercial, something!

[@anikettripathi7991]

Intelligence /knowledge is highest entanglements so sanatan philosophy proposed bhakti superiority instead. Bhakti is basically focusing without expecting any results.

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

It's not so much a loss of free will but it's going and doing without thinking.

[@Zen_Power]

The Matrix 4 has all the answers……

[@ShutUpWesley]

It Deffinetly has better answers than some of the People in this comment section. Wich is actually really sad.😥

[@danielsayre3385]

release date for the newest one December 22nd 2021

[@ujjwalbhattarai8670]

Everything are different forms of one source. Yes free will exist in consciousness. In high level of consciousness. One supreme source have high levels of conscious. One source have conscious but not differences forms. Consciousness means power of handling universe. If I get power than i may discriminate my saying my and yours... me others But supreme source never discriminate. Controlling stages of mind according to time and needs= consciousness.

[@bluelotus542]

Being eternal, we're never created. Only the manifestations of matter are created, included our bodies. And they're also destroyed in due course of time. Our eternal identity is at the core of our temporary identity, which may be compared to a glove inserted on an hand. Although the glove resembles it, it's not the hand.

[@projectmalus]

Much like I've been thinking lately. The origin as a perfect sphere, with interaction as a circle around that sphere, a perimeter that descends as linear line segments, space time. The balance of two movements, a lens like dilation and linear segments, that produces an imperfect sphere (imperfect since it contains both lens and linear actions) and this is moving up and down levels as it appears to us, but none of it perfect. Examples of objects with linear segment perimeters would be atoms, proton with electron 'shell' that (one interpretation) is electrons like a bucket brigade, passing charge along. Another might be quarks with spin and super positions. Nucleus of a cell with protein chains, and polarized lipids. Human culture emulating this, a Superbowl match with linear points that gain value when added, a crowd that expands and contracts to balance each individual unit person, the stadium as the object containing both these movements, each person having these two also, the awareness as an object and time segments (experiences). Dying means rejoining the line segments back into a circle.

[@bluelotus542]

@@projectmalus Everything is ultimately circular: time, space, truth.

[@soubhikmukherjee6871]

Facts are many, but the truth is one-Rabindranath Tagore.

[@eksffa]

NTS: avg/59/use

[@frizzneil2590]

They told me it was the Ghost in the Machine...

[@chayanbosu4944]

Humans are souls. Conciousness is symptom of soul and soul emarges from supersoul. The supersoul is absolute conciousness. Absolute conciousness is God .

[@ShutUpWesley]

Hulabalula hub hub xirtam kciw nhoj wikide dik dik dik.

[@suatustel746]

Well if everything stems from the supreme being then he made a huge mess up with his creation (faulty products)

[@briendoyle4680]

hahaah... 'souls' do not exist!

[@saliksayyar9793]

In Islam, the resurrection clearly includes the body. What kind, not known.

[@matishakabdullah5874]

Thanks. It is very interesting and important observation made by Stephen Evens about "addiction". I suppose a similar phenomenon occurs to question of "belief". It is very hard for one to abandon one's addicted belief even after discovering the true truth about it is faulty or a false belief. Apparently neither words no swords can change one belief! It is a good reason to examine one belief.... is it a true belief based on the truth or only addiction belief?

[@kameelffarag]

One of your best interviews.

[@robfogg7459]

What is "the" human mind rather.

[@williamesselman3102]

I hurt your channel and I'm happy about it

[@stoictraveler1]

I agree for the most part. A macro take that raises many questions. God or quantum in nature? I understand the scaling issue with QM, but fundamental processes tend to trickle up. Maybe the tools of God.

[@cameronidk2]

Conscience is simply a memo to ones self. It reports on decisions made and why, results of previous decisions, and a summary of current profitability

[@maxwellsimoes238]

Life is unprediceted. Mind isnt control facts. NEVER memory is same person. In memory open vast possibilities make up "person". He is mistyc insincere of course. Anti Science Instead fallacies rethoric.

[@con.troller4183]

Theology is the "scientific" study of invisible friends. Theological Anthropology would be an abomination if it were not a fiction.

[@Renato404]

Hmm, I wonder what does pseudophilosophy has to say about it??🤔

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

Circular. I think maybe symmetrical. I see paradigms and patterns in the Bible that are relative to today the past and the future.

[@mediocrates3416]

The brain was a comfort finder and is becoming a coherence detector. We became super-apex, so comfort is the perception of stable sustaining coherence; the stability of sustenance. ... Nope, monism; panqualism; homeostasis generally (or the failure of homeostasis?) has quality. What you do has consequence; by that, your spirit, lives on; maybe.

[@mediocrates3416]

If you live by what you believe in your heart to be true, your spirit persists in service of truth. If you service the perception of others, your spirit persists in service to those perceptions. Dharma/karma respectively.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Human choice for Political will; God will for Natural choice

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

All we can do is be the best to be obedient to God's word to the best of our ability and understanding. Only Jesus Christ can make us new and uncursed.

[@con.troller4183]

Only serfs are cursed. Don't let a silly story ruin your life.

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

@@con.troller4183 it hasn't ruined my life it's made my life wondrous the fact that I'm going to have a new uncursed body being undeased unsick no more fear anxiety only joy and happiness and rejoicing nothing but good. For the fact that you say surf's or cursed there you go totally proves that this Earth is cursed meanwhile the Bible says about thorns bramble bushes I sure see all those around here still thorns and thistles. Don't let not believing in truth ruin your life. And what measure you hold shall be the same measure to you.

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

@@con.troller4183 Jesus Christ comes riding on a white stallion he's the one to control and stomp the rebellion.

[@con.troller4183]

@@ChuckBrowntheClown Anyone who told you they know what happens after we die, is either a liar or delusional. Someone scared your brain into hiding.

[@ChuckBrowntheClown]

@@con.troller4183 the Bible stands and will always stand since it's the word of God and Jesus Christ is God, he became his word on the flesh and died and resurrected. And the first Earth and first heaven will pass away for the new heaven and earth. You have to know what you're trying to debunk before you can debunk it.

[@brushbros]

Only human beans and no other life has consciousness huh? Or is able to reflect? You two do not impress, I must say.

[@mikel4879]

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