Minds, Brains, & Science - John Searle (1984 Reith Lectures)

[@Philosophy_Overdose]

00:00 A Froth on Reality 29:48 Beer Cans & Meat Machines 59:21 Grandmother Knew Best 1:29:05 Walk to Patagonia 1:58:45 A Changing Reality 2:28:21 Freedom of the Will

[@christopherhamilton3621]

Genius! Lovely to have the entire series in one continuous record. Thanks!

[@henriquecardoso45]

Was just listening to these separeted, thanks for joining them!

[@divertissementmonas]

Lecture 3: I have often pondered on why whenever there is a new technology academia immediately maps the human being onto it. That is mystifying. Thank you for all these lectures in one video, I recently watched the first two of these and it is convienent to have them all together with a description of each lecture's topic.

[@grahaminglis4242]

Listening to this lecture from the perspective of questions about what is happening with respect to delusional states of thinking that resist strongly against attempts to change the disorderly outcome of behaviour in that the mental pre-intention is mostly thwarted in reality. Principles 7 and 8 outlined by Searle around how intentionality and actions coincide is relevant to the questions re delusional states. I live with a family member who spends enormous efforts to pre-empt every outward daily activity in an effort to avoid undesirable consequences and such efforts or choices invariably result in the opposite direction and therefore strengthens the basis of the delusion. The issue at point is that everything he is doing is encompassed in the belief that the background he is intending to enter upon consists only of human capacities that are also intentional mental states. And, he is adamant that the whole of society is premised solely on mental constructs too. So, the delusional thing keeps repeating even though he thinks that he will overcome this by changing the pre-emptive part each time he is faced with entering into the general space shared with others who are themselves acting not necessarily from mental states or so-called spontaneously. Unfortunately, the repetition of the erroneous forms of intentional behaviour becomes embedded in the self-centred images that automatically drive his psychological life movement and ruin his conception of the social environment that surrounds him. It’s not simply only the notion of intentionality that is the basis of delusional thinking, there’s obviously other factors playing out as well. It seems like he is caught up in a form of self- hypnosis and can’t or won’t escape from its hold on himself. Another thing to note is that treatment with psychoactive medications have little or no effect on the delusions. I agree with Searle’s conclusions that in order to understand what is happening concerning the origin of behavioural disruption, looking from the common sense perspective reveals something significant.

[@cheri238]

Great. Listening now.❤️

[@yclept9]

Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, chapters 5-8 (short chapters) covers most of this. See it on Project Gutenburg.

[@MagicM2024]

Great, love this... Sounds so right and easy how he thinks and explain almost 40 years ago. Today we do thar with algorithm and wright's and parameters

[@BaronVonTacocat]

1:46:00

[@markyoung950]

the comparison of computers following rules and humans should be limited to neuo-networks such as in the hippocampus

[@yclept9]

Froth on the waves has a major effect on the action of the waves. Little waves break preferentially at the peaks of longer waves (froth) and impart their momentum preferentially to long waves. This leads to a much faster production of long waves by wind than can be accounted for by linear instabilities. See M.S.Longuet-Higgins A Nonlinear Mechanism for the Generation of Sea Waves , 1969

[@yclept9]

@@TheWorldTeacher Maybe the analogy goes through further.

[@nameofuser5743]

19:10 - is water wet? philosophy edition

[@markantrobus6794]

I like Searle. He came up with a phrase "disciplinary matrix" BUT Academic philosophers need to get high on entheogenics. They are stuck in their left brain rut. Their left brain disciplinary matrix. How can squares understand the roundness of the world? Wittgenstein was alive and passionate within the facade of logicism. He was and still is unique. And the squares still do not get him.

[@Zeropadd]

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[@jamesbarlow6423]

I never bought Searle's gig.....