Substance Dualism

[Animavore]

Excellent vid on conscience/body dualism.

[AshtonBlack]

Posted on me FB page too. Top vid!

[Animavore]

Comments are funny
Some dualists trying their damnedest to refute the argument but can't do it without using the arguments refuted in the video

[AshtonBlack]

On this subject I really like Dan Dennet's "Kinds of Minds" which describes "consciousness" not as a binary "things have it or not" but as a gradual emergent process given enough time and neurons!

[Animavore]

On this subject I really like Dan Dennet's "Kinds of Minds" which describes "consciousness" not as a binary "things have it or not" but as a gradual emergent process given enough time and neurons!

Much prefer Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate.

[charlou]

^^^ Two books I've yet to, but must read ...

Excellent vid on conscience/body dualism.

I've seen this guy's work before ... Good stuff.

Thanks for posting, Ani.

[FBM]

That was very concise and well-presented! Best thing I've seen in a while. Thanks, Ani!

[Psi Wavefunction]

This is awesome, thanks for posting, Ani!

You'd be surprised how alive and well dualism is in the Humanities departments. Or maybe not

Maybe I should show this at the beginning of my seminar next term; we have some foundational premises to agree upon at the beginning, one of which is that we will explore the subject from a monist/materialist standpoint. (the other is that we will use the Scientific Method to the best of our abilities)

(topic is application of evolutionary theory in the humanities, btw... )

[Animavore]

He's making a follow up to this too. I can't wait. He's my second favourite YouTuber after AronRa. It's just a pity he posts so seldom.

He also posted this today along with the dualism vid.

It actually is very appropriate to the way I woke up this morning.

[FBM]

The part where he mentions that all the physical substance in the body has been replaced very 7 years is interesting to me. He destroys the idea that this fact means that there's a non-physical substance that's responsible for identity. I would have gone a step further to point out that identity is merely a non-fixed convention in the first place, though, but still.

[Animavore]

The part where he mentions that all the physical substance in the body has been replaced very 7 years is interesting to me. He destroys the idea that this fact means that there's a non-physical substance that's responsible for identity. I would have gone a step further to point out that identity is merely a non-fixed convention in the first place, though, but still.

I was surprised he didn't mention that. I'm certainly a different person to what I was 7 years ago. My mind was not yet critical and sceptical then. The world was way simpler.

[FBM]

The part where he mentions that all the physical substance in the body has been replaced very 7 years is interesting to me. He destroys the idea that this fact means that there's a non-physical substance that's responsible for identity. I would have gone a step further to point out that identity is merely a non-fixed convention in the first place, though, but still.

I was surprised he didn't mention that. I'm certainly a different person to what I was 7 years ago. My mind was not yet critical and sceptical then. The world was way simpler.

I don't think it had much to do with making a refutation of dualism. He did that effectively w/out needing to go that far. Hell, if I had my way, he'd have gone into the problem with induction and Pyrrhonian skepticism, but I know that wouldn't have been very effective. Good thing I didn't make that vid, eh? I would have fucked it all up, for sure.

[Animavore]

The part where he mentions that all the physical substance in the body has been replaced very 7 years is interesting to me. He destroys the idea that this fact means that there's a non-physical substance that's responsible for identity. I would have gone a step further to point out that identity is merely a non-fixed convention in the first place, though, but still.

I was surprised he didn't mention that. I'm certainly a different person to what I was 7 years ago. My mind was not yet critical and sceptical then. The world was way simpler.

I don't think it had much to do with making a refutation of dualism. He did that effectively w/out needing to go that far. Hell, if I had my way, he'd have gone into the problem with induction and Pyrrhonian skepticism, but I know that wouldn't have been very effective. Good thing I didn't make that vid, eh? I would have fucked it all up, for sure.

He had to limit the length of the vid while keeping it succint so I guess he found it superfluous.

[FBM]

He had to limit the length of the vid while keeping it succint so I guess he found it superfluous.

Succint good.