Dan Robinson on Consciousness

[@adelvoid1530]

Prof. Robinson gave me the coordinates to understand and read Kant. For this I will always be grateful.

[@PadraigTomas]

The delightful Daniel Robinson, refers to Huxley at the 47:00 mark. Which Huxley does he mean?

[@themulldog1039]

Thomas Huxley, who was an epiphenomenalist regarding consciousness

[@paxdriver]

My favourite prof since I discovered TTC in 2002. Thank you soooo so much for this upload. I'm really looking to part 2 of this on character.

[@luszczi]

Ah, very well written: stimulating, but not too taxing. Many lecturers using a prepared script fall into the trap of writing a dense essay that's impossible to follow. We've seen some examples on this channel. :)

[@PessimisticIdealism]

Dan Robinson is excellent.

[@josephcarcasole6039]

Thanks for this.

[@blairhakamies4132]

Better than fabulous ❤

[@Udaykymset]

Sounds like he's trying to pick a fight with Searle

[@BobBogaert]

8:26 - Herophilos was [...] the first to locate intellectual functions in the brain. Confused cat: "Iz not Alcmaeon of Croton?"

[@windokeluanda]

Fabolous!

[@alfredkokou2013]

Warning ⚠️ this is not for public audiences. An unprepared mind, which I happen to be a member of, will hear a series of sound devoid of meaning.

[@menzisaclown]

Funny comment

[@Doctor.T.46]

Excellent, I've never had my physicalist perspective on consciousness confirmed in such an eloquent and entertaining way. Thank you.

[@ivaniliev929]

He is refuting it. You realise that right?

[@Doctor.T.46]

@@ivaniliev929 Sorry, I was being sarcastic, I should have made that clear. I also get my physicalist views confirmed when I listen to David Chalmers trying to persuade me about zombies.

[@axe7064]

Africans were the first thinkers!!!

[@axe7064]

There is a disconnect. Not one African philosopher. Considering the Greeks learnt everything from AFRICAN Egyptians.

[@tiredidealist]

😂

[@doylesaylor]

Watching this video I feel pain of watching someone bent over reading text. Pain based upon the topic. The reader is tied to the words he speaks from the ‘page’ as conveying the meaning of consciousness. He certainly is used to lecturing and his subject matter. But not so much from the spectacle of his bent over posture. Which is also laughable. What I see is a video, not a book or printed text, or monitor with a text display. The video makes a claim about consciousness itself which he ignores. Not I mean vision, a claim about realism of the display. Of course being a very familiar experience a video seems real. But we also know from reality a video is not real. This trivial observation though implies consciousness is one of the comparison between video and direct experience. This consciousness may be such as an other animal not human, experiences. So we being users of language know the text, or the video via language. Hence consciousness may be in animals apart from how language makes consciousness known to humans. So this implies we ask of language be like consciousness. That is what we think of videos, that the video conveys consciousness visually where text does not. And this conceptual trivia eludes the bent over reader of texts.

[@constantin_oprea]

I confused. What are you intending to say here? I am not against gibberish; however, I find that you are not quite clear with your comment. You say "The video makes a claim about consciousness". It is not the video, is the person, Dan Robinson. Please explain this " So we being users of language know the text, or the video via language", and " the video conveys consciousness visually where text does not".

[@christinejones9620]

Daniel Robinson suffered with osteoarthritis

[@doylesaylor]

@@christinejones9620 Well his osteoarthritis is very relevant in that the method of self expression demands a communication that isn't necessary for this person to use. If we are going to use video just make available the set up to use for a person with disabilities. A video camera does not demand a lecture like a classroom. It can take the person as is face on as a moment of respect for their best being.

[@doylesaylor]

@@constantin_oprea I'm sorry I didn't see this as when you wrote it. A video camera captures what seems like a 'real' person. In other words a straightforward movie is consciousness like seeming. What a strange set up to communicate ideas. What's the purpose of communicating ideas? Is it to retain the semblance of a lecture hall? Is that really how to appreciate conveying words? You also claim my words sound like gibberish to you. Wow, sometimes a bit of truth comes across when people feel free to be honest in their feedback. So you don't understand me. Conversation can provide a means to correct misapprehension and that is what I find disturbing about this video. It's oblivious about using the video camera to communicate. We can't as in conversation easily get clarification since person was recorded long ago. This video is an egregious miss use of recording what someone has to say. It's actually trivial to record this respectfully of the person talking.