Philosophy Overdose, this video on the mind-body distinction was mind-bending. Your exploration of this timeless question left me pondering existence itself.
@StevenDykstra-u3b4 ай бұрын
I think Hitchens was perhaps most correct when saying, "We do not have bodies. We are bodies."
@AEsECAGesDesDurE4 ай бұрын
If you haven't already, you might be very interested in reading Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. He truly changed philosophy's perspective from one that starts from the mind as the first presupposition into that direction.
@StevenDykstra-u3b4 ай бұрын
@@AEsECAGesDesDurE Noted.
@HiJackShepherd4 ай бұрын
Agreed, and "We do not have minds. Our bodies are aware."
@StevenDykstra-u3b4 ай бұрын
@@HiJackShepherd But ubiquitoiusly in social comprehension remaining all but comatose.
@jcc1954 ай бұрын
the philosophy of mind bros are out tonight, keep your wits about you
@Philusteen4 ай бұрын
I look at it this way - if you could place yourself far enough away from earth, and capture all the information emanating from the earth, everything that's ever happened is still out there - traveling through the cosmos. Every action of everyone you've ever loved still exists out there somewhere. What happens to the information that consists of us? Regardless of whether or not consciousness could persist in some tangible form, every day's data is eternal in a way, and that's rather lovely.
@MARDUK94 ай бұрын
Do we have to leave the earth to capture all this information? If we don't have any space or time constraints we should be able to access it where we currently are but if that's so we should be able to access anything at anytime anywhere.
@Philusteen4 ай бұрын
@@MARDUK9 well, it's not whether or not we could capture it; I'm simply making the point that all this information exists. So, if you wanted to see ancient Egypt, or Rome at its height, or Australopithecus walking across the savannah, or your mom calling you for supper when you were little - all of that information is in the universe somewhere, diffuse and light-years away of course, but it persists nonetheless.
@Himanshu_Khichar4 ай бұрын
@@PhilusteenThat information would have to be infinite in magnitude, and it exists in the Mind of God.
@Philusteen4 ай бұрын
@@Himanshu_Khichar Spinoza's god, perhaps. 🖖
@jurgn4 ай бұрын
Your assumptions are questionable, Philusteen. Yesterday is gone, no light remembers where you went to toilet.
@simoneverodimarrow4 ай бұрын
Descartes ❤😂 my second love affair whom I still arguing with ✨🦋
@StevenDykstra-u3b4 ай бұрын
@simoneverodimarrow You think, therefore, you are probably not going to vote for any presidential candidate in 2024. I chanelleled Descartes. Hip for being dead hundreds of years and living on another plane of existence.
@AshokKumar-fc4es4 ай бұрын
Hi
@MARDUK94 ай бұрын
What's your flavor? Eliminative Materialism, Noneliminative Materialism, Phenomenalism, Interactionism, Parallelism, or Epiphenomenalism.
@longcastle48634 ай бұрын
Are big teeth distinct from the body? Or large claws? Or flight? Or digestive systems? Or instincts? Or communication skills? Is having a sensory perceptual system that allows one-whether a parrot, a person or a porcupine-to be aware of one’s surroundings distinct from the body?
@Antifrustrated4 ай бұрын
Yes
@CesarClouds4 ай бұрын
Is this from the program From Socrates to Sartre?
@islaymmm4 ай бұрын
What did Mary know?
@Wildrover824 ай бұрын
The mind is a construct of the brain. No brain, no mind.🧠
@Antifrustrated4 ай бұрын
Lol
@Himanshu_Khichar4 ай бұрын
And without the mind, the brain is just matter incapble of bringing about any conscious experience.
@Wildrover824 ай бұрын
@@Himanshu_Khichar the brain creates the mind. No mind exists without it.
@MasoudJohnAzizi4 ай бұрын
How do you know that is true? Thanks for sharing.
@Himanshu_Khichar4 ай бұрын
@@Wildrover82 When you say "the brain creates the mind" as opposed to something like "the brain is the mind", you implicity recognize the distinction between the brain and the mind. We aren't yet debating the origin of the mind, but you agree with me insofar as the distinction is concerned.
@casperdermetaphysiker4 ай бұрын
The body is made of mind. The body is essentially mental.
@MARDUK94 ай бұрын
"The All is Mind, The Universe is Mental" doctrine of the Kybalion.
@Himanshu_Khichar4 ай бұрын
The body is conspicuously non-mental.
@genesises4 ай бұрын
you mean the other way around? :)
@casperdermetaphysiker4 ай бұрын
@@genesises I said what I meant
@longcastle48634 ай бұрын
The idea that all is mind has not resulted in a single scientific discovery. Meanwhile the scientific fruits of materialism are all around us.
@nowhereman60194 ай бұрын
No.
@user-zb9qk3ml9r4 ай бұрын
Sever the head from the body and see if there is still a mind; alternatively, you could induce some sort of brain damage and see what happens.
@thegroove20004 ай бұрын
Information is not stored locally in the brain.
@thegroove20004 ай бұрын
The brain dies but the information is not lost. What if there are those a chosen few who can access such information from complete strangers even by touching the objects they once owned?
@MARDUK94 ай бұрын
@@thegroove2000 Vibroturgy - perhaps the information field of the object has been imprinted with a person's unique information field.
@thegroove20004 ай бұрын
@@MARDUK9Beyond the brain/mind in a place yet to be discovered.
@longcastle48634 ай бұрын
We actually know the locations in the brain where a lot of information is stored-such as memories and word knowledge, etc. Just like we know the areas of the brain where emotions, reasoning and planning abilities are situated and the areas of the brain that control things like breathing and motor function. And we know that in traumatic brain injury to specific ares of the brain people can lose some of those memories, knowledge or abilities.
@peterhovmand744 ай бұрын
And yet so wrong ...
@MatthewMcRowan4 ай бұрын
We'll find out after we're done with this material plane
@Wildrover824 ай бұрын
I don't think we will. We'll be dead.🤷
@lament224 ай бұрын
@@Wildrover82😂
@yonathanasefaw90014 ай бұрын
I think so.
@longcastle48634 ай бұрын
No, you most likely won’t find out. And the bummer is you won’t be able to complain about it, either.