Life nested within life: In Defence of the Human Being with philosopher & psychiatrist Thomas Fuchs

[@waymaking23]

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[@taooftheloves]

i love this voice

[@Kelty-yy5lp]

Before the internet became popular it seemed many many people seemed to be able to enjoy being human much more easily.

[@waymaking23]

thank you sharing this @Kelty-yy5lp i guess that has a lot of relevance to how we are experiencing our embodiment, i wonder if any other technology has changed that as much as computers have

[@Kelty-yy5lp]

@waymaking23 i appreciate your content. It is really difficult to say, i think contraception changed the way men and women relate to themselves, each other, their children and and society significantly. Language must have been mindblowing in the early days and the printed word of course. The wheel, harnessing fire and being able to cook food, the list goes on and on. Nonetheless the internet has i think in many ways the potential to promote division and competion over and above its cooperative powers, while simultaneously offering an eacape and distraction. it seems to be removing the paramountcy of the embodied connected experience of being human. Sure hope i am wrong though 🧡

[@steveschertzer5088]

Another interesting conversation, Andrea. While Mr Fuchs sees the importance of human connection and interaction, it is also important to realize that we humans are not superior to all other beings. Our reliance and attachment on computers and technology is at times disturbing. I remember many years ago when talking a philosophy course with my favorite philosophy professor. He was very skeptical about computers. This was the mid-1990s. He was fond of saying, “When mama computer and papa computer can make a baby computer, then I will take them seriously.” 😂 Technology has come a long way since then, and unfortunately this professor is no longer with us, I have noticed that computers (and smartphones) are much smaller these days… like a baby. 😅

[@waymaking23]

@steveschertzer5088 great comment and yes, we didn't get into too much but I think Thomas briefly remarks at some point that he does not only mean for human begins, or at least this non-anthropocentric view is a concern. Appreciate the story about the philosophy course and the computer family ♡

[@Phirstsight]

Interesting talk, thanks for the conversation. Wondering if Conviviality is similar to radical embodied cognition (Chemero, Clark, Et Al)? To put it another way, can there be affordances for "you" or else do you think cognitive systems are not likely to get extended to shared spaces?

[@waymaking23]

@Phirstsight thanks for listening and for the relevant comment. REC and all these traditions are connected and influencing one another, though with many different takes. Just as Chemero and Clark have some places they diverge, and so on, that is also true of those who also work in the embodied and enactive traditions.Thomas Fuchs is also coming at this from the medicine side, or that of psychiatry, also the tradition of phenomenology. Here's a link to his google scholar: scholar.google.de/citations?user=9ox8HaAAAAAJ&hl=tr

[@alexanderfuchs8742]

you two look alike

[@glove2017]

Why are you whispering???