i kind of like this series - finally an intellectual who isn't cynical about the finer points of existence
@pikiwiki4 жыл бұрын
oh boy. This is a home run episode. It hits at the schism between internal and external reality. Big, big idea.
@farouqAliyu4 жыл бұрын
It is dizzying !!!
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
That's not a schism, it's the answer to ontology. The nature of being is a dichotomy between our internal and external experience. Every thing has a related internal state. Every thing is real as a pattern in a mind. Some things also have an external referent.
@Hyporama2 жыл бұрын
@@havenbastion "Some things also have an external referent." ?
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
@@Hyporama God, for instance, does not have an external referent. Although many people make such claims, no version of god has ever been externally validated. An apple is both an internal thing as all things are, but also an external thing because it has external reality due to the fact that we can continuously verify it with external senses and measurement.
@msimp01084 жыл бұрын
If metaphysics “takes us on a long road closer to Truth” (a trip that presumably takes”time”)and we move an increment of the distance of that road with each episode then the Truth, according to Zeno, will never be arrived at. Such fruitless seeking only makes sense to someone who is greasing his palm along that road by insinuating that we COULD get there. I’m looking at you Robert Lawrence Kuhn!
@soubhikmukherjee68713 жыл бұрын
I can't see why this channel hasn't got 10M subscribers.
@johnbrzykcy30764 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I finally know the definition of Metaphysics. I think "surprises" are just around the corner.
@glitchedpixelscriticaldamage4 жыл бұрын
I remember i learnt this term back in high-school and what it meant... it's another term for philosophy, at least as i remember it.
@johnbrzykcy30764 жыл бұрын
@@glitchedpixelscriticaldamage I never knew what it meant until recently. I think Metaphysics can be fascinating. ( I'm not knocking the hard sciences nor religions. I think a correlation exists between all three )
@stinkertoy43104 жыл бұрын
@@glitchedpixelscriticaldamage I’ve always though of it as another word for spirituality. Sounds more scientific.
@Crandaddy814 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics is fascinating! It is very unfortunate that many people think that it's just a load of superstitious, new-age hooey, rather than the serious academic subfield of philosophy that it is!
@stinkertoy43104 жыл бұрын
@@Crandaddy81 If calling it “metaphysics” makes it more palatable to science and moves it forward, wonderful. Both science and religion trying to explain our reality. Seems to be something in between or both.
@dawid_dahl4 жыл бұрын
I just realized something. Closer To Truth is Robert Lawrence Kuhn's journey to NOT find out. Finding out the truth would mean that he would have to stop making this television series. Where he travels to all these beautiful locations and has all these wonderful discussions with all these amazing people. Finding out the truth would end his dopamine rush of anticipation of maybe finding something out. End the sense of meaning he probably finds in being a seeker on a quest. I for one hope that Robert will never *actually* want to find out. Because I like this super cozy program so much, haha!
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
Agreed! The brain was a comfort finder for millions of years and a coherence detector for only the last 200k.
@moonzestate4 жыл бұрын
Kuhn's journey is all about finding out the truth. But, the more science discovers, the more question arises... The more we know, the more we realize how much more there is yet to know. When you realize this, then you will understand that finding out the truth, just opens the door to another problem, or another things to figure out. This is what keeps Kuhn's "dopamine rush of anticipation". So, don't worry, there will be always questions remaining open... :-)
@DrDante2214 жыл бұрын
Fabulous discussion!
@tty20204 жыл бұрын
I would love to hear Kuhn interviews on issues in philosophy of science (no pun intended :) ), such as realism vs antirealism, theory-ladenness, underdeteminism, can scientific method discover reality etc.
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
What's your take on those subjects?
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
@Andreaz-64 He asked him to do basically the same thing, just in video form
@joeclark16212 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics having no time nor space is a lot more relieving than one can imagine but for me, it seems impossible to comprehend let alone imagine an existence where you are having a set of experiences without time cause time is technically a motion.
@rabidL3M0NS3 жыл бұрын
“Are metaphysics for real?!” Lol love that
@thomasridley86754 жыл бұрын
Metaphyisics : The never ending search to imagine every idea you can never prove. With metaphyisics, now I can see, but... I love his back step. A classic !!!🙄 It's not that there may be a creator. It's that everyone thinks it must be the one inside their head. And act like that since their god is special. They must be special too. And they desperately need too feel special.
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
There's been no progress for 3000yrs because it's been about making us comfortable. There was a productive balance between the cynic and the stoic until Alexander occluded the cynic's sun. There is a hard problem (an all pervasive electrotonic field and we electrotonic particles?). There is a mountain of colonialism and misogyny grounded on roman fascism. I'm a cynic👍🍻😁
@thomasridley86754 жыл бұрын
@@mediocrates3416 That's one way too put it i guess.😂😂 But yes, as pagan as the night is dark.
@johnbrzykcy30764 жыл бұрын
@@thomasridley8675 Yes the "night is dark." But Light is coming and darkness will not comprehend it.
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
@@thomasridley8675 Absolutely but, just one truth and all that we see must conform. The war against paganism is politics, pure and simple.
@thomasridley86754 жыл бұрын
@@johnbrzykcy3076 What light ?
@alalohwhydee2 жыл бұрын
Very enlightening, extremely challenging.
@spacebaby11744 жыл бұрын
TY, for another great episode! As Above, So Below.
@phillyg76613 жыл бұрын
Great episode! I’m with you Robert! Metaphysics has a place to explore unification from the macro universe to the quantum, as well as consciousness, spirituality and God. A great understanding of math could be indispensable, if Einstein couldn’t do the math, it would have been merely metaphysics. Cheers
@danielzapisek48284 жыл бұрын
Would love nothing more than to see Ed Feser on here. I feel like some of the top contemporary Thomistic philosophers would be a tremendous addition to this program and provide Dr. Kuhn with a different perspective-Dr. Feser in particular!
@catherinemira753 жыл бұрын
Asking metaphysical questions is a way to acknowledge our human need to connect beyond death and a 'proof' that our emotional inner life has not found what it is looking for: deep emotional peace.
@comanchio19763 жыл бұрын
Perhaps we evolved in such a way that, selected for individuals who are incapable of finding such a state; as they would be much more vulnerable to predation; hostile neighbors, etc...
@kallianpublico75174 жыл бұрын
How did Einstein discover special relativity? He didn't conduct a physical, empirical, experiment; he asked a question and tried answering it using the terms he was familiar with: the terms of physics, a branch of science incorporating mathematics (including geometry) into observations that provide predictive descriptions. When a metaphysician answers questions using his terms he will have succeeded in discovering something new: surprises; whether or not they agree with the terms of physics or other sciences. Though they will have to offer predictive description to be considered as successful. Predictive description requires linguistic explanation. Linguistic explanation requires coherent terms. The coherence of physics is derived from dividing its terms into measurements, methodologies and models. Methodologies and models involve the metaphysical category of abstractions: logic and math and geometry. Most scientific measurement involves two metaphysical categories: material and mental. For instance weight involves a material object, a measuring apparatus:scale, and a mental, unit of measurent: kilogram, pound. The measuring apparatus, scale, involves engineering a material substance, in this case a metal spring, and calibrating its motion with a standardized unit of measurement: kilogram, pound,etc.. There are two scientific measurements, however, that do not involve only the two metaphysical categories of material and mental. The two are time and space. These two measurements involve all three metaphysical categories, which includes the abstract. How? By leaving out the material object. A scale requires a material object to make a measurement of weight. A clock and ruler have no such limitation. They only require a measuring apparatus, clock or ruler, and a mental unit of measurent: seconds or inches. The motion of the clock is automated, not activated by the presence of a material object. The shape and marks on the ruler are uniform, which determines the one to one calibration of its marks to its units of measurements: inches, centimeters, etc.. By leaving out the material object to activate them their use as measurements become abstract. Unlike scales, voltmeters, and thermometers clocks and rulers do not interact with material phenomenon. Mass, electricity and heat are all observable, time and space are not. Clocks and rulers do not interact with time and space: they do no expose them. Rather clocks and rulers impose time and space. Why are time and space the only two measurements that involve the third category of metaphysics: the abstract? Because of logic. They make logical sense as impositions, like numbers and letters. They do not make observable, empirical, material sense. Though you can see the symbols for numbers and letters they are as whimsical as any clock or ruler: by whim are they so.
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics is the hard problem. The *illusion* of self comes from local memory; that's easy problem.
@mindofmayhem.4 жыл бұрын
Even the newest discoveries get old with time. Maybe make some new episodes?
@Aaerys4 жыл бұрын
Take a shot every time Robert nods
@donq29574 жыл бұрын
Great show. Coming from social science grad student.
@dr.satishsharma97944 жыл бұрын
Excellent..... thanks 🙏.
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
The philosopher of linguistics didn’t say anything that counts against the discipline of metaphysics or any of the ideas discussed in this video (afterlife, God, etc), so I’m not sure why Kuhn was so worked up over the phil of linguistics comments.
@jamesruscheinski86024 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics could look into consciousness to clearly describe and define its scope
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
We are each an embodied being with a unique perspective in place and time. Our experience relies on cognition, which is brain activity. Mind is a metaphor for the patterns in the brain. The conscious mind is a sub-set of mind that our experience can visit. Our conscious awareness itself is a momentary aspect within the patterns in the sub-set of the mind known as the conscious mind.
@elgatoconbolas4 жыл бұрын
Reason is even more fundamental
@Dion_Mustard4 жыл бұрын
i don't think god of religion exists..but i believe the universe has consciousness...i like to imagine the universe is one humongous brain and we are the cells existing within it.. i certainly think the key to all existence is down to two fundamentals..energy and consciousness.. once we understand consciousness (which I doubt we ever will), then we might understand why we exist.
@elginjeleel21434 жыл бұрын
Closer to the truth is fun. Try it it this way, the key to existence could be down to E=MC2 🤪,
@danielpaulson88384 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Something is there. Many people experience flashes of it. But it's not any god. At least no the God of Abraham. Hindu, Greek, Buddhist, etc gods are metaphoric so they don't claim the reality or literal nature of such a supernatural being.
@caricue4 жыл бұрын
We do know for sure that 7billion or so little pieces of the universe are conscious. I have my doubts about rocks.
@Dion_Mustard4 жыл бұрын
@@danielpaulson8838 I am most intrigued by the out of body experience..so many people have experienced an OOBE and many describe leaving the planet and flying through galaxies etc. others describe leaving the body and travelling to other dimensions..so I believe the mind and consciousness are separate entities.
@KestyJoe4 жыл бұрын
“I like to imagine...” Thanks for this succinct deconstruction of all religious thinking.
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
I can answer every metaphysics question (the deepest "What is the nature of x?" questions) according to the following criteria; a) no gaps, special pleading, appeal to authority, or woo, b) coherent, cohesive, conclusive, c) compatible with the best modern consensus of science, d) expressible in ordinary language.
@Marco-wq7nn Жыл бұрын
Really?
@havenbastion Жыл бұрын
@@Marco-wq7nn Only one way to find out.
@Marco-wq7nn Жыл бұрын
@@havenbastion is that metaphysics for you keeping it speculative and based on guesswork?
@havenbastion Жыл бұрын
@@Marco-wq7nn The nature of time, space, energy, matter, self, consciousness, infinity, paradox, truth, knowledge, god, etc. Where do you want to jump in head first with both feet?
@Marco-wq7nn Жыл бұрын
@@havenbastion i start with truth.
@stephenburrows42504 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this..., I see metaphysics as the answer to its own question ie. the answer to the question is in questioning itself. The inexplainability of existence is fundamentally unknowable, and perhaps whilst we should pursue knowing that (an answer in itself)..., balance this in parallel that we will never derive an answer - the existential pleasure is in the pursuit itself..., the ‘joy’ is the reality in knowing we can... 🤷♂️ 🙏
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
Or it's just delusional circular reasoning...
@stephenburrows42504 жыл бұрын
@@_shadow_1 yup! 😃 still cool isn’t it...? (Or lunacy)... 👍
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
@@stephenburrows4250 Both lol
@stephenr804 жыл бұрын
I dont see it that way. There is reality whatever that means. Maths and Ideas are objects of thought. They do not exist outside of it.
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
They can still be used to describe/represent things outside the mind.
@drtak45124 жыл бұрын
Yes, and despite of this, it (math) can describe the outside world accuratly. That's why eugen wigner called it a miracle.
@andrewlucas62144 жыл бұрын
It seems to be the human condition to question and search for fundamental truths about all aspects of reality. Surely the answers lie within so silent reflection will unite us with realty. Picture two dogs. One chases it’s tail while the lies sleeping in pure bliss.
@johnmartin73464 жыл бұрын
Of course!
@ailblentyn4 жыл бұрын
I am very ignorant. Can anyone help me? When McGinn says that traditionally we divided the world into physical, mental and abstract, who are the main authors in that tradition?
@Alex-bl6oi4 жыл бұрын
Evolution, religion, instincts, the normal human thought process. Don't you feel it, can't you imagine it?
@ericmoyer85384 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia gives a decent explanation under metaphysics
@ailblentyn4 жыл бұрын
Eric Moyer Thanks. I think I have found it. Frege, I guess.
@joshheter15174 жыл бұрын
Plato.
@ailblentyn4 жыл бұрын
Josh Heter Thankyou. Where in Plato is this three-way distinction mentioned?
@mikeys75363 жыл бұрын
It’s hard to construct a 1000 piece puzzle when you only have about 3 pieces and you’re not 100% sure those are the correct pieces for that puzzle.
@catherinemira753 жыл бұрын
To me, the abstract world relates to the mental world. They are, ultimately one world. If there's a third world, I'd put the emotional world in it.
@philippemartin60814 жыл бұрын
Hi Mr Lawrence. Good evening. This is very nice and Deep, and so important question and true fact. I your Biguess fan. Sincères amitiés Philippe Martin 😎🎶
@rv7063 жыл бұрын
5:03 - "Has arithmetic made any progress since the ancient Greeks? Well, no" - It may be the case that you meant "elementary school arithmetic" or some equivalent aspect, cause otherwise you seem to be quite ignorant of what _arithmetic_ is as a branch of mathematics and all the portentous progress that was made in it up to the present day. Arithmetic has really two meanings in contemporary mathematics: in *Algebra,* arithmetic is a synonym with number theory, Galois theory and the theory of field extensions (for fields that are, say, not algebraically closed or real-complete), the theory of Diophantine equations, and related areas. The Modularity Theorem by Wiles--Ribet et al., and the so-called "last Fermat's theorem" which follows from it, is an impressive achievement in arithmetic which happened in the 1990s. In *Mathematical Logic,* arithmetic refers to the study of Peano axioms and related axiomatic systems, and their models. In a certain technical sense Goedel's incompleteness theorem is a theorem of arithmetic (though of course it has wider philosophical significance).
@Great_WOK_Must_Be_Done2 жыл бұрын
This reality is full of mind-boggling surprises. See: The University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies
@donaldmcronald89894 жыл бұрын
Please speak to Bernardo Kastrup about idealism. Thanks a bunch.
@nyworker2 жыл бұрын
Robert needs to interview an engineer who studies philosophy
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
Clayton didn’t mention that positivism is also self-refuting.
@caricue4 жыл бұрын
Why would you want to believe in anything that had no evidence? What if someone just made it up?
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
What?
@cmacmenow Жыл бұрын
Has R.L.K interviewed Bernardo Kastrup yet?
@gunlokman4 жыл бұрын
These so-called metaphysical specialists are either too way ahead of the game for the rest of us to understand - or lost in their own self-created thought-forest. The jury's still out.
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
not "so-called" more like "self-proclaimed"
@IronDogger4 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics is where Quantum physics goes to play - Jackie Robertson Metaphysician
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
Numbers are icons for quantity: math is the natural science of quantity.
@nyworker4 жыл бұрын
How neurons really do it? Not just the computational cartoons they have now but the deeper level(s).
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
Electrotonics. Ions are surrounded by ordered water; as they move in response to an electrotonic field they might have to shed some associated water. I suggest that's a quantum of sensation when it's bound into a larger electrotonic particle. We are electrotonic particles artificially sustained for about 16hrs a day by our bodily rhythms. Occasionally, the cranial environment becomes supercoherent and the particle becomes self-sustaining; this is a meditative flash, what we understand as the transcendent experience.
@andreaspapadakis26022 жыл бұрын
There is an issue that is not getting properly addressed for some reason..it seems that consciousness is fundamental to thought whitch is fundamental to logic..so why do we give logic the absolute authority to decide on reality..as the linguist have pointed out our Time might be a structure of the brain and so does Space..all the paradoxes of time and space and linear thought are indicative of the limitations of logic. How on earth can we understand reality only examining it through a certain filter???
@Ndo014 жыл бұрын
We can only infer metaphysics based on our perceptions. Perception is biological interpretation. Our interpretation leads us to think that there is something beyond the perception. We could never know the true nature of metaphysics because we can never perceive outside the limits of perception, and so all metaphysics and reality itself is just pure interpretation.
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics subsumes everything you say is beyond it. All of those points have a metaphysical answer.
@Ndo012 жыл бұрын
@@havenbastion I'm not saying anything is beyond metaphysics, just that our grasp of it is interpretation rather than ultimate truth.
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
@@Ndo01 Yes. Metaphysically there is no ultimate truth to us, only the filtered version.
@OlejzMaku4 жыл бұрын
So, no surprises then?
@jdc79234 жыл бұрын
The kind of philosophy/metaphysics your society or culture or civilization (take your pick) has, will have a huge influence on what things are investigated and in what way. In classical Chinese philosophy, one of the core beliefs was that there is no objective reality. Is it surprising that it wasn't China that created modern science? The great philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead noted early in the 20th century that it wasn't until Westerners had for centuries thought of the physical world as the creation of a "Lawgiver", that they began to look for the laws that governed the physical world.
@jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын
theology about internal existence revealed by free will time through emotional language?
@spacesciencelab4 жыл бұрын
Consuming psychedelics has convinced me that the metaphysical exists.
@danielpaulson88384 жыл бұрын
I was convinced as a kid without them. But with them later on intensified the experience.
@spacesciencelab4 жыл бұрын
@@danielpaulson8838 What's interesting is that recently I had a LSD experience where the intensifying of the fractals you see when you close your eyes seems to relate to the the nature of mathematics and chaos theory; and the metaphysical realm where mathematics resides; just as the theory of forms states that as you most likely already know this yourself that these mathematical entities exist independently from us. And also, Closer to Truth episode with Max Tegmark; he states that mathematics is discovered and the mathematics actually is the true nature of things; further supporting a Platonic worldview.. Deeply studying the Mandelbrot set, fractals, and chaos theory for me brings alight a lot of interesting pondering. I was thinking that everything in the universe seems to have its own fractal. Like a car, it goes through a sort of evolution; it is self similar but always stays a car. You can see this self similarity whilst studying the Mandelbrot set. The more you study it, the more it seems to be very relevant to our universe, so it seems that we're actually looking at the universe or the language of it. Recently I was contemplating whilst in the bath, lol and decided to call this "hypothesis" dwell hypothesis" I was watching the bubble bath frothing and more and more bubbles were being made as the bath filled. The more I looked at these bubbles, the more I saw fractalling, self similarity; every bubble mostly the same; some small and some big; but pretty much the same. When we look at the observable universe, things are also very self similar; homogenous they call it. This brings the painting by Esher to mind, the one with the angels and demons. It seems to me that we can use the madelbrot set everywhere, since it relates to a lot of things which I'll explain. The most obvious thing in the Mandelbrot set is that you can see is patterns like rivers and branches. However, I think we can use the Mandelbrot set on a more general scale, like for example a poor town seems to always be just that and self similarities like unemployment . A successful city seems to fractal with success like investment and this doesn't seem to stop when it gets going; Dubai would be a good example or NYC from the general perspective of skyscrapers being built. Maybe even depression is a form of fractals because when one dwells on that depressive thought, it leads to self similarities; and inevitably more depression. From my intensive personal studies of fractals, it seems to me that nature likes to dwell. Like, the universe has dwelled on stars, its dwelled on....deodorant cans. What I mean is, once nature gets a hold of an object, whatever that may be it appears that it'll stay on that path without much change, it'll always stay that particular thing. The bubble bath would be a good example. Or a pen. Although a pen has went through changes in its existence, it has always remained a pen and looking into its past, its fractalling; it will obviously remain a pen, not that you need to study fractals to know that, LOL. But hopefully I explain enough for this to make sense. If its true then we could sort of use fractals to predict outcomes by observing the self similarity and repetitiveness of whatever thing we choose to study; not to a precise extent but close enough. Maybe we could use it to predict the weather more accurately by looking at a storm developing and if it goes on a path of self similarity then that could be a sign that it will continue to do so.
@purezentity65824 жыл бұрын
15:00 is interesting, he got most of it, and that just TIME. the reality is a concept of interpretation by human, which is limited only to human, which lied within Consciousness. hope that help.
@moonzestate4 жыл бұрын
5:51 Nice timing :-)
@jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын
metaphysics / philosophy about human reality experienced by conscious energy through rational mathematics?
@cmdrf.ravelli14054 жыл бұрын
I'm curious, have you ever tried psychedelics?
@_shadow_14 жыл бұрын
nope
@jamesruscheinski8602 Жыл бұрын
science about external objects observed by physical measurement through empirical art?
@siamkarl4 жыл бұрын
Check out the metaphysics of Dutch philosopher-scientist Bernardo Kastrup. Rigorous, parsimonious, and empirical, his conclusions are remarkable. He welcomes discussion and has proven himself adept at answering objections over many years.
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
“Soul seems implausible.” Braude (2003): “hold my beer.”
@bimmjim Жыл бұрын
Listen to what the indigenous knowledge keepers say. Remember it. Go test what they say. .. I've done this and found it to be true.
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
RLK still needs to talk to Ed Feser ☕️
@kuroryudairyu45674 жыл бұрын
The only one little problem here is that metaphysical realms are not verified, unfortunately ❤️😔
@caricue4 жыл бұрын
If you mean scientifically verified, of course not. As soon as a thing is able to be scientifically explored, it stops being metaphysics and becomes physics. What realms do you feel need verification?
@kuroryudairyu45674 жыл бұрын
@@caricue all the ones which say that exists a lot more beyond this reality
@caricue4 жыл бұрын
@@kuroryudairyu4567 But with no concrete evidence, aren't you concerned that you might be chasing phantoms of your own making?
@kuroryudairyu45674 жыл бұрын
@@caricue you clearly didn't understand what i meant.... Or i did not correctly explain myself. I only meant that anyone can talk about metaphysical matter but it won't, never ever, be a useful thing, especially for me cause I'm too much skeptical, so we can tell or talk about billllllions of metaphysical "contents", but because of its impossible to be really proved, i find them useless
@kuroryudairyu45674 жыл бұрын
@@caricue and, for answering to your question, i do not believe in ghosts et similia, until I'll see one by myself
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
“Philosophers are always arguing.” Yah, but so are theoretical physicists...
@Sharperthanu14 жыл бұрын
But there are SOME things they DONT argue about.
@johnbrzykcy30764 жыл бұрын
@@Sharperthanu1 I wish we could say the same thing about theology.
@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns4 жыл бұрын
This is inspired by the previous comments but isn’t meant to directly interact. Sometimes academics get stuck in a prejudice rut telling them, “these questions aren’t worth talking about.” Sometimes they’re right, and it’s fine, but often they’re wrong, and a worthwhile endeavor is neglected. I find it ironic that some of the anti-philosophy bigots will criticize others for not being curious enough! Yet they wouldn’t be able to summarize any of the controversies in areas of philosophy that matter a lot. Of course, sometimes philosophers get stuck on ridiculous (or seemingly ridiculous) questions, but that also applies to physicists. And, yes, theologians. But theology isn’t worthless IMO.
@thegoodlistenerslistenwell26464 жыл бұрын
@@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns what does theology provide that science and philosophy do not?
@readynowforever36764 жыл бұрын
@@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturns “Theology isn’t worthless” I think you’re absolutely correct. But it’s becoming obsolete. Theology is what refined Homo sapiens during the transition from Hunter Gatherers to community civilizations. It was our first form of political governing and a way of establishing civility and unity 1000s of years before the advents of modern science. Theology started off as a Homo sapiens’ hypothesis to explain natural disasters, emanating from decadent Homo sapiens’ behavior. We learned that hypothesis was false, but there were still salubrious symbiotic externalities that came of religion or belief in god(s). So we’ve stuck with the man made “god” concept. Some of us have advanced and defenestrated “god”.
@jeffamos98544 жыл бұрын
Can cats discover surprises ?
@somethingyousaid50594 жыл бұрын
Well, cats are naturally curious, so I would answer yes. But then it's an old proverb that says that curiosity killed the cat, so the cat better be careful.
@danielpaulson88384 жыл бұрын
@@somethingyousaid5059 But the proverb continues, satisfaction brought it back.
@somethingyousaid50594 жыл бұрын
@@danielpaulson8838 you're right. I had forgotten that. And a cat's supposed to have 9 lives anyway. Felicitous feline. lol
@danielpaulson88384 жыл бұрын
@@somethingyousaid5059 It's a pretty old verse. I'm surprised a young whipper snapper like me even knows it. Lol (Shhhh)
@thomasridley86754 жыл бұрын
Ever leave a paper bag on the floor. The answer is a definite yes.
@guff95674 жыл бұрын
This channel should be renamed "Closer to my LSD tab".
@spacesciencelab4 жыл бұрын
lmfao
@doring45793 жыл бұрын
😊🌏⏳🙏♥️
@ripleyfilms856111 ай бұрын
i end this as a hell and form later create ''absrence'' it's a planet, why i believe
@jesseburstrom59204 жыл бұрын
what about the mentally exited metal object climbing like an spider a object like life who reaches self interest and as it looks at me knows it only exist because of me and will die as soon as that connection is gone and looks at me at the same time... Self excitement is consciousness, meta self- hmmm ?
@CraigGidney4 жыл бұрын
> [Let me give an example of something not making progress not being a criticism.] Has arithmetic made any progress since the ancient greeks? Well no they sorted that out long ago. Not a good example. There's been a ton of progress on devices and algorithms for performing arithmetic over the past fifty years. In the past 200 years there were a lot of foundational advances too, such as the Peano axioms. It hasn't even been a year since it was shown that multiplication can be done in O(n lg n) bit operations, and no one has managed to prove that's actually the minimum yet. Arithmetic's still advancing.
@mehdibaghbadran31824 жыл бұрын
We have 3 types of consciousness, 1- early ages, started between the age 18-35 2-middle ages, between 35-50 , 3- final ages, between, the ages, 55-70 ! after the ages of 70 the fully consciousness, will not happened! And the size of that is depends on your age .
@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel24904 жыл бұрын
Conditioned responses are accumulated as one ages, in a way making us less conscious as we age.
@KestyJoe4 жыл бұрын
I disagree with the conclusion (based on the evidence presented) that metaphysics brings us closer to truth. The theme of this video appears to be “metaphysics poses questions that are interesting to think about, even if we have no mechanism by which to answer them.”
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
An answer is a framework of understanding. There are infinite potential answers to any question. The best answer can only be determined in relation to a particular use-case.
@KestyJoe2 жыл бұрын
@@havenbastion sorry but, how could you expect to be taken seriously when you say things like “there are infinite potential answers to any question”? Pure woo-woo double-speak.
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
@@KestyJoe I could expect to be taken seriously because you understand me perfectly, because i think you're a fool, because i believe everyone takes people seriously on Sundays... see? potentially infinite answers.
@KestyJoe2 жыл бұрын
@@havenbastion Oh - you’re including the 99.999% of answers that are obviously wrong and can be ignored. Got it.
@havenbastion2 жыл бұрын
@@KestyJoe Even if you believe there is only one answer to a particular question there are still innumerable ways to phrase it with different emphases, or to add various contexts. An answer could also be won't and still be a valid answer if it was aimed at helping understand the question.
@kumar2ji2 жыл бұрын
The more knowledge we have the more destructive we become This is an observable fact. Science has contributed comfort to this world and has also expedited our destruction as a human race. There are more psychological Man's psychology is deteriorating rapidly. More is not the answer. We are in this terrible decline as a human race because of knowledge. Knowledge is entertaining and intellectually stimulating but has not improved the quality of man's happiness as a whole.
@ΕμμανουηλΠετρουλακης-ψ5λ Жыл бұрын
Sorry Philip but Plato was right all along.
@rafiqbrookins49312 жыл бұрын
Metaphysics is an epistemology no different than "science" is. It's "an" approach to trying to understand reality. "Metaphysics is an abstract human invention about the nature of concrete reality -- immaterial thoughts about material things." "..an Idea like the circle pre-exists material beings," The entire universe is full of objects that were obviously "intended" to look and function the way that they do. From this fact alone one can infer an "Intender". We see a universe that obviously has a "Creator" any idea contrary to this goes against logic and reason. The Idea of a Star and it's functionality must have preceded it's creation and manifestation no different than the Idea of a car preceded it's creation and manifestation. We see a universe clearly designed by "Intelligence", "Intent" and "Desire" therefore we can infer an "Intelligent Designer" Who has designed the entire universe. Surah Al-Anaam, Verse 1: الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَجَعَلَ الظُّلُمَاتِ وَالنُّورَ ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ يَعْدِلُونَ All praises and thanks be to Allah, Who (Alone) created the heavens and the earth, and originated the darkness and the light, yet those who disbelieve hold others as equal with their Lord. Verse 2: هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن طِينٍ ثُمَّ قَضَىٰ أَجَلًا وَأَجَلٌ مُّسَمًّى عِندَهُ ثُمَّ أَنتُمْ تَمْتَرُونَ He it is Who has created you from clay, and then has decreed a stated term (for you to die). And there is with Him another determined term (for you to be resurrected), yet you doubt (in the Resurrection). Verse 3: وَهُوَ اللَّهُ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَفِي الْأَرْضِ يَعْلَمُ سِرَّكُمْ وَجَهْرَكُمْ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا تَكْسِبُونَ And He is Allah (to be worshipped Alone) in the heavens and on the earth, He knows what you conceal and what you reveal, and He knows what you earn (good or bad). Verse 4: وَمَا تَأْتِيهِم مِّنْ آيَةٍ مِّنْ آيَاتِ رَبِّهِمْ إِلَّا كَانُوا عَنْهَا مُعْرِضِينَ And never an Ayah (sign) comes to them from the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of their Lord, but that they have been turning away from it.
@todd4956 Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how stupid most of the so-called professionals are. The simple reality is that Science isn't possible apart from metaphysics and metaphysical foundations. Anyone actually interested in Metaphysics must explore the work of the late Philosopher and Historian, R. G. Collingwood. No one in history comprehended philosophical metaphysics as did Collingwood. Collingwood defines metaphysics as the Historical Science of Absolute Presuppositions. And if you think you understand what that definition means in actual reality you had better think again.
@odiupickusclone-15264 жыл бұрын
No!
@mediocrates34164 жыл бұрын
Spiritually enabled Scientism, see: *dat's* da way to do it, Spiritually enabled Scientism. (Flintstones ref.)
@robertdevos74 жыл бұрын
Hey Robert ... who's "truth" are you looking for? If you're ever in Cape Town let me know and I'll buy you lunch at the classic Mount Nelson Hotel ...