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Dualism & Physicalism: Ā Ā Ā ā¢Ā WhatĀ PhilosophersĀ MeanĀ byĀ "Mental"Ā an...Ā Ā
This is a video about Thomas Nagel's famous 1974 Philosophical Review paper, "What is the like to be a bat?" The paper introduces a novel argument against physicalism. The basic idea is that consciousness embodies (or can only be understood) from a subjective point of view. But physical science, by definition, gets away from subjective perspectives and goes toward objective understanding. So when one tries to give a scientific account of conscious experience, one ends up getting farther away from the very phenomenon that one set out to understand. It is also mentioned that dualism may be no better off at explaining consciousness. This video also includes a list of approximate synonyms for consciousness, including qualia, the phenomenal character of experience, phenomenonolgy, qualia, etc. This is part of an introductory-level philosophy course.
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I showed this video to my rock friends. They were angered. They told me you got the rock thing all wrong and were pissed that you said they had no consciousness.
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Iām in my late 40s and I didnāt study philosophy or anything related. but I have learnt so much from your videos and Iām planning to watch all of them and learn much more.
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There is a physical term which may be relevant to this discussion: emergence. The idea that things are more than just the "sum of their parts"; that due to interactions between those parts, they become a more complex thing. This is why things like Chemistry and Biology aren't just branches of physics: due to layers upon layers of emergence, there then exists new, more complicated stuff to study in an entirely new manner. A singular ant can't build an anthill, it can't do all the things we associate with an ant colony, but when a whole bunch of ants interact, they create a much more complicated new entity: an ant colony, capable of doing much more complex and impressive feats. But does the "ant colony" have physical existence? Arguably yes, arguably no, but it certainly does interact physically with the real world. A singular electron or quark or gluon or what-have-you similarly doesn't do that much stuff, but when a bunch of them interact with each other and with other particles, all of a sudden we have electromagnetism, then atoms, molecules, reactions and so on. A singular particle can't do much, but a bunch together can create all of chemistry. Is a "molecule" a physical entity? Does it have physical existence? Probably a lot more people would say 'yes' than with the ant colony, but it is once again just an emergent property of stuff interacting. So just like the ant colony, it also arguably has or doesn't have physical existence. Consciousness is very probably just another example of emergence, that interactions between neurons generate a new compound entity which is more than just the sum of its parts. What emergent entities do we deny physical existence? Which do we say have it? And why should this question even matter?
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Thanks Jeffrey!
āIf you canāt explain it to a 6-year-old, you donāt understand it yourselfā (Albert Einstein)
That is exactly what you do: No unneeded hiding behind jargon, no boring sidesteps, and repeating WHAT it is was again we are researching/studying.
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Excellent video...and as a fellow philosophy teacher I can appreciate how hard it is to think-on-the-fly so you can be forgiven for calling Mt Everest a 'planet'. :)
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As this is two years old, I'm sure someone else has mentioned this, but humans can/do echo-locate, but they are typically blind and have trained themselves to do so. But it is possible for humans to do, we just don't normally train our brains to do it.
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Fantastic video. Amazing. I particularly appreciated the references to the actual pages of the paper š
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I just want to join with the many others here in thanking you from my heart for this, and all of your excellent videos. Truly great work. I hope you know how very appreciated you are, and that you've really contributed something to the world through your incredibly talented teaching. ā®
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The real question is "what is it like to be batman?"
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I had to rewatch the first bit of the video because I couldn't fathom how good this man is at writing mirrored letters until realizing he probably just flips the video in the end.
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For a fictional treatment of this problem, read Roger Zelazny's short story, "For a Breath I Tarry", about a robot trying to understand the experience of the vanished humans who built his kind.
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Lovely video. By the way, since language is the final expressive frontier when it comes to issues of this nature, it works wonders if one tries excessive scrutiny when it comes to usage of certain terms. During your discussion, for instance, there was a part that I felt a mere distinction when using the terms like imagination and imagine helps open a path to avoid common linguistic dead-ends or u-turns of this kind. The distinction between "retentive imagination" and "reductive imagination", for example, (which is not a techincal term but something that came to my mind to fulfil the need for fruitfil clarification) is an instance of further disambiguating the linguistic maze which at times occupies us with itself more than the final goal towards which it leads.
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Yeah, that was truly excellent. Thank you so much for that episode.
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