The Cowboy Philosopher on Consciousness

[@StopSpammingOriginal]

A really clever presentation of the "I'm stupid - therefore god" argument.

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks

[@joeycook6526]

This guy is obviously educated beyond the point required to realize the fallacy of the construction of his argument; that being said, I'm still only 99% sure he's not serious. Either way, I like him and I hope this goes viral. I would really like to see Early Cuyler animated to the audio. Hilarity. Ensues.

[@PhilHalper1]

Thanks, if you'd like to see it go viral please feel free to share on social media

[@tedl7538]

Read the explanation under the video Joey, the key word is "satire."

[@djhalling]

Brilliant! He had me fooled up until he said "Now if we come up with an explanation later, that just means Jesus quit doing it, now it's doing it another way".

[@PhilHalper1]

I thought it was obvious after the first sentence, but the scary part is maybe its not.

[@InShadowsLinger]

Poe's law at its finest.

[@PhilHalper1]

alas yes

[@teaburg]

This is brilliant!

[@PhilHalper1]

Thanks

[@gcfournier3386]

"that just means jesus quit doing it and now it's doing it another way" HAHAHA

[@PhilHalper1]

yep I had a hard time keeping from cracking up as we recorded this

[@aarthurc2]

Haha 😂 educated satire... Love it.

[@hellfirelordofevil]

This is a momentous work of satire

[@Andres64B]

Alt Has to be.

[@PhilHalper1]

Thanks

[@Stadtpark90]

How does he not start laughing while spewing out these absurdities? I mean either he really is dead serious, or he is just a great artist and I‘m too ignorant to recognize satire on the internet - yeah, must be that.

[@upublic]

@ stadpark it's satire like in the good old days of 2006, with the likes of Edward Current, DarkMatter2525 and Soldier in God's Army, masters of satire =)) It's hard to pinpoint the proof, because as you say it's almost indistinguishable from the real thing, but those of us who are accustomed to this worksmanship can tell. We've been fooled too in the past so no worries, your brain is more than fine :)) EDIT: Soldier's old backups are found on TheAntichristSpeaks channel nowadays kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWatm4Kvot-lnbc

[@PhilHalper1]

It is that, if you look at the description , this i satire. We did have a hard time not to crack up laughing as we recorded this.

[@tdsdave]

My eyes are opened ....:)

[@PhilHalper1]

Amen

[@bruce1437]

Freedom guns and Jesus is the answers 🌠

[@ŚmiemWątpić]

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. ...did I mention consciousness?

[@PhilHalper1]

maybe that was from the devil

[@paultorbert6929]

Knowledge of Good and Evil.....? idk.....

[@benswartz6387]

Enjoyed the theater but consider a bigger gun for the next one.

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks, the next one is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJjVc4qwhNadjKc same sized gun Im amfraid

[@daydays12]

lol! the truth ! more!! more!!

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks

[@inwardseer]

Durn funny

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks

[@mindsharping]

"God hating atheist"- surely no sane god hating person can call him/herself an atheist!

[@walkingmap]

Well Shit!

[@PhilHalper1]

yep

[@hojda1]

And you explain consciousness emerged... how? A wise man said that you should go for the best arguments and not for the low hanging fruits. Like you did in your Unbelievable episode with Jeff Zweerink.

[@DogsaladSalad]

god o the gaps babeee

[@PhilHalper1]

Yeah

[@Kebekwoodcraft7375]

That make a real busy god , so god control everything except my belief , from a French guy !

[@infov0y]

Yeah, the mysteries of consciousness (as so many things) are misused as 'evidence' for God, a universal consciousness, or whatever. But then, to think traditional physicalist explanations that try to eliminate or explain away consciousness are the only game in town - while more fashionable in intellectual circles - is just as ridiculously presumptuous. So not as funny as it might be to the philosophically naive and/or bullish anti-theists.

[@PhilHalper1]

Given the past success of physical theories to explain mysteries it doesnt seem quite as ridiculous as I think you imply.

[@infov0y]

Yes, it would be successful, because the scope of what counts as 'physical' is expended on each empirically successful new model to include every component of its ontology. So for each mystery solved It can hardly fail - if it can be modelled by physics, it's 'physical'. Hence what once meant something like 'solid' or 'of substance' now includes possibilities such as quantum fields, virtual particles, emergent spacetime, and hidden dimensions, which are very unlike the original meaning and all of which would have been the antithesis of 'physical' at some time or other. And that's all fine, because as I just pointed out, the only reasonable definition of 'physical' is 'amenable to physics'. I certainly hope consciousness is amenable to an explanation by physics, but find the claim that it already is (or at least has to be) explainable by what we count as 'physical' right here and right now a bit silly. It's just an open question, that's all.

[@PhilHalper1]

So if we discover new things we should just ignore them because their new?

[@infov0y]

No, we should add them to the list of things we currently think the world consists of. But given that the things we think exist at any one time always include things thought not to exist at previous times, we should be humble enough to know that *our* time is likely no different, and so the list nowhere near complete. But I'm unsure what you're getting at. My point is just that the means by which the phenomenon of consciousness comes about is a wide open question (and even if it's a valid phenomenon at all of course). Using God as an answer without evidence is silly yes, but using 'just *known* physics' as an answer without evidence to pretend to close off the mystery is silly too.

[@PhilHalper1]

I dont think anyone is suggesting consciousness is explained by just knowing physics. Two theories are mentioned in this video and neither them are making that argument.

[@sansabasongbird5130]

This is a joke right?

[@38bass]

😂

[@MBarberfan4life]

Lol

[@PhilHalper1]

Thanks

[@steveforest8385]

How the mind of a typical Trump voter works.

[@PhilHalper1]

It wouldn't surprise me

[@in_haunt]

What's sad is that some people actually think this way.

[@PhilHalper1]

Yep

[@1amb0b]

that's what makes it awesome

[@socksumi]

"If Jesus can feed 5000 people with two stinky fish and five loaves of stale bread, he can certainly turn the lights back on and make clean air just by burpin... Amen?" ~ Pastor Deacon Fred

[@PhilHalper1]

lol

[@tedl7538]

Brilliant satire on steroids!

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks part 2 is up, hope you like that too kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJjVc4qwhNadjKc

[@trancefixion]

give us episode 2 already!!

[@PhilHalper1]

its coming , make sure you subscribe

[@paineoftheworld]

The jump cuts around the laughter is what gives it away. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@usernamesrlamo]

*Uh, it’s like mashed potatoes in there. Might as well be mashed potatoes, you know what I mean.* dying...

[@robertj8469]

Beautiful!! Let's see more from The CP

[@PhilHalper1]

Episode 2 is coming soon, make sure you subscribe.

[@SquirrelASMR]

As an atheist, In a way, he's right.

[@PhilHalper1]

Hell yes

[@inwardseer]

Jesus is the 2nd law of thermodynamics , I stand corrected of my prideful views of fluid Dynamics .

[@marcux83]

ah hellooo. who can turn on the lights in the sky? geeesus cryst

[@oletimer5853]

Now that’s one Intelligent Cowboy 🤠

[@panthershockey4453]

this is great

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks

[@spiritofechero]

not exactly what I was expecting, but still good for a laugh

[@PhilHalper1]

thanks glad you enjoyed it

[@nerroseven]

jesus n that shotgun, will explain it all....

[@PhilHalper1]

lol

[@mx4evaNZ]

Where do you find these people, lol

[@PhilHalper1]

you get this is satire right?

[@gilbertramirezpt]

Consciousness is a construct of the brain. Much like all of our sensations of sight, hearing, touch,smell, taste, and relative temperature are not real manifestations of the external environment outside our skin but are internal construct which we experience within the consciousness construct. Consciousness doesn’t represent an individual biological entity. It isn’t a single specific cell but rather an arrangement of cells where the alignment creates the experience of consciousness. Our lack of connection to another’s consciousness is probably the inability of our neurons to functionally connect into a link. I can speak, touch, taste, give or remove pain from another conscious being but I can’t share their experience of consciousness which they have in their own bodies. That is up to this point in our evolution. As a physical therapist I use touch to reduce painful sensations in another persons body. I can feel the pain via touch. I’m not experiencing the pain but I can feel what they perceive as bodily pain. Pain being a sensation but not a real function of injury, only a conscious construct of the brain which modifies behavior to mostly minimize damage. I wonder if there are examples of conjoined twins which share a portion of brain in which a sensation or motor function is shared between two brains? This ambien stuff is powerful.

[@joecaner]

We will believe what we will, but there is one thing for certain. There's an inexhaustible supply of the unknown and the unknowable. We are insects clinging onto the flotsam of an explanation floating in a vast ocean of mystery.

[@agnosticdeity4687]

Some people in the comments are suggesting that this is satire but I know he means it, and I am going to write to this man and offer him my support to run for president... ...Just as soon as I can find my wax crayons ;-)

[@ConnecttoSoul]

Thank you for your own continuing insight, encouragement with expertise to boost my quest to turning into more consciously alert as well as spiritually connected.

[@PhilHalper1]

you are welcome

[@markkinnard796]

Actually the onset of turbulent flow begins with a Reynolds number greater than 10,000.

[@kurohikes5857]

I so hope this is satire...

[@PhilHalper1]

me too

[@EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo]

I so hope your comment is sarcasm...

[@kurohikes5857]

erparom I'm not being sarcastic at all. This guy if being serious is a complete imbecile.

[@PhilHalper1]

we do say it satire in the description

[@EnriqueRegisPascalinRomo]

Im amazed about how naive you need to be to "think" this is other than a very thoughtful and smart parody.

[@Gumikrukon]

Jesus Christ is making my waters turbulent.

[@PhilHalper1]

Exactly

[@alfonso201]

This guy is 👌

[@kathryndavidson2873]

Sure like your accent and droll drawl!

[@PhilHalper1]

Thanks for your comment

[@stoat2]

yA kNoW wUt A mEaN...

[@janettsterling6104]

stoa

[@markledwich]

Can you provide a link to that paper (by Rudolph)?

[@PhilHalper1]

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28554611

[@SvalkT]

skydivephil ty so much

[@manfarangb]

The funniest take on 'belief' I have seen since 'The Life of Brian'; absolutely brilliant!! Great work.