After watching EVERY episode of CtT for years, I am convinced that beyond the host's genuine curiosity in his topics and other motivations such as pleasure from exercising his prefrontal cortex and feeling useful, underneath all of that is a fear of death.
I do not fear death. Why fear the inevitable? I had been dead for billions of years before I was born, and I hadn’t suffered the slightest inconvenience.
ACIM⁵What seems to be the fear of death is really its attraction. ⁶Guilt, too, is feared and fearful. ⁷Yet it could have no hold at all except on those who are attracted to it and seek it out. ⁸And so it is with death. ⁹Made by the ego, its dark shadow falls across all living things, because the ego is the “enemy” of life.
Success and goals and like surgeons can be judged two ways. One does easy operations, low risk and advertised as "very successful". Another can take difficult goals, hopeless patients with high risk of failure and record can be advertised poor and unsuccessful. Which doctor do you go to?
If you are a materialist the Earth is the beginning and end of all the intentions we have and can have. Biology without geology, archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary history and every other subject that studies the history of the planet we “exist” on will always be limited by this scope. In other words no one intention can substitute for the ground of all intentions. It can only indicate its lack of completeness. If you believe in god does the ground of intention increase? Does morality derived from religion supersede instinct: overcome impulse and instinct (intentions) derived from the Earth? Are we more than just our genes and brains? Well “just” our genes and brains, biology, requires the study of many, many lifetimes. We’re just beginning to explore and document our biology. The scientific mindset has math at its foundation. The essence of math is calculation and solution. Math is not truth, but we like to rely on its “correctness”. Without the correctness of math science loses its imprimatur of reliability. The Universe may not care if we exist or not, but surely the Earth does. The fact that we can discover and list our intentions, what does that mean about the Earth’s existence? If you believe in God, does that mean you believe that the Earth is the only ground of existence, because that could prove to be true? Otherwise, is it the case that belief in God must mean that the universe is the ground of existence? Does the fact of morality indicate an Earthbound ground of intention, or an alien ground of intention? Is consciousness a mystery of the Earth or the universe? Is math the only reliable thing or is emotion or food or faith? Ignorance always tempts us to search for more. Even when all our needs are taken care of. How many prodigal sons became prodigies?
He is giving a lot senseless Philosophy . He wrong believes Russel abc relativity. It book was first Editon in 1925. Biology experiences a lot details take place is keep it out. Blah blah.iol.
There are at least 80 billion cells in our body. The brain processes information from these cells every fraction of a second. So it's at least 80 billion instructions from the brain every fraction of a second. Now it's weird..
Steven Hawking had the last word on the philosophy of science; it's an oxymoron. The more science advances, the less there is for philosophers to do. On questions such as "How does life organize itself ?" the philosophers of biology might post interesting questions, but the laboratory will find the answers.
Science is a tool. Philosophy a lifestyle. Science isn't even an entity, nor alive, nor experiences but a frame of mind, thought, and inquiry. Technology advances and too man's awareness and understanding.
After watching EVERY episode of CtT for years, I am convinced that beyond the host's genuine curiosity in his topics and other motivations such as pleasure from exercising his prefrontal cortex and feeling useful, underneath all of that is a fear of death.
I think anyone who seriously considers death is going to feel fear.
that is true, I think the fear of death is the ultimate question for every human. existence is really weird, trying to imagine non existance even more
I do not fear death. Why fear the inevitable? I had been dead for billions of years before I was born, and I hadn’t suffered the slightest inconvenience.
ACIM⁵What seems to be the fear of death is really its attraction. ⁶Guilt, too, is feared and fearful. ⁷Yet it could have no hold at all except on those who are attracted to it and seek it out. ⁸And so it is with death. ⁹Made by the ego, its dark shadow falls across all living things, because the ego is the “enemy” of life.
can philosophy of biology help describe psychology, subjective causation, conscious experience from biology / brain?
Success and goals and like surgeons can be judged two ways. One does easy operations, low risk and advertised as "very successful". Another can take difficult goals, hopeless patients with high risk of failure and record can be advertised poor and unsuccessful. Which doctor do you go to?
If you are a materialist the Earth is the beginning and end of all the intentions we have and can have. Biology without geology, archaeology, anthropology, evolutionary history and every other subject that studies the history of the planet we “exist” on will always be limited by this scope. In other words no one intention can substitute for the ground of all intentions. It can only indicate its lack of completeness.
If you believe in god does the ground of intention increase? Does morality derived from religion supersede instinct: overcome impulse and instinct (intentions) derived from the Earth?
Are we more than just our genes and brains? Well “just” our genes and brains, biology, requires the study of many, many lifetimes. We’re just beginning to explore and document our biology.
The scientific mindset has math at its foundation. The essence of math is calculation and solution. Math is not truth, but we like to rely on its “correctness”. Without the correctness of math science loses its imprimatur of reliability.
The Universe may not care if we exist or not, but surely the Earth does. The fact that we can discover and list our intentions, what does that mean about the Earth’s existence?
If you believe in God, does that mean you believe that the Earth is the only ground of existence, because that could prove to be true? Otherwise, is it the case that belief in God must mean that the universe is the ground of existence?
Does the fact of morality indicate an Earthbound ground of intention, or an alien ground of intention? Is consciousness a mystery of the Earth or the universe?
Is math the only reliable thing or is emotion or food or faith? Ignorance always tempts us to search for more. Even when all our needs are taken care of. How many prodigal sons became prodigies?
So that people can pretend there's no such thing as xes
Knowing about Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva is better than reading 100 books of philosophy.
I've read 101 books, so I'm safe.
Philosophy is yoga. Robert and his kin have destroyed true philosophy.
FYI; Those guys were all philosophers too…philo = love and sophia = wisdom. All were searching for wisdom as they had a love of wisdom.
He is giving a lot senseless Philosophy . He wrong believes Russel abc relativity. It book was first Editon in 1925. Biology experiences a lot details take place is keep it out. Blah blah.iol.
There are at least 80 billion cells in our body. The brain processes information from these cells every fraction of a second. So it's at least 80 billion instructions from the brain every fraction of a second. Now it's weird..
Steven Hawking had the last word on the philosophy of science; it's an oxymoron. The more science advances, the less there is for philosophers to do. On questions such as "How does life organize itself ?" the philosophers of biology might post interesting questions, but the laboratory will find the answers.
Science is a tool. Philosophy a lifestyle.
Science isn't even an entity, nor alive, nor experiences but a frame of mind, thought, and inquiry. Technology advances and too man's awareness and understanding.
Why Philosophy of Biology? Certain people need a career, so they invent a 'new' field for research. It's a vacuous discipline.