Great episode but I am surprised that Zhuangzi's butterfly was not mentioned in this episode. "Once I dreamt that I was a butterfly, enjoying myself to the full and not knowing that I'm a man. Suddenly I woke up and found himself to be a man. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."
If we’re sitting here watching youtube videos on philosophical reasoning, we’re very unlikely to have been the first of our friends to discover romantic attraction!
“Plato wants us to see that we,right now, are prisoners in a cave. Everything in our world is actually a mere shadow of a higher reality. Just as the man in the story once mistook shadows for real things, we are currently prisoners in a cave of our own. But rather than mistaking shadows for the material objects of the ordinary world, our mistake is thinking that the material objects of the ordinary world are the most real things.” ~ Crash Course Philosophy #4
+FirstRisingSouI Born in Tibetan buddhist society, Grew up in one, became one and used to think meself to be one of them until one day I read a book called Anti-Christ by my glorious Nietzsche. Since then I started to wonder and question. Wondered how when i listen to buddhists chanting, I don't understand a thing. It is chanted in Tibetan yet my language is completely diferent. Then read various Tibetan textbooks, realized my belief was a lie and now I am atheist. My only concern is philosophy. Only that 3 million people in my country still blindly believes in religion. Refuses to think, change, do something for them. Most sad thing is buddhism they believe is not can not even qualify as buddhism :(
Marxian Hobbes Your question has to actually seek out something. It should offer a possibility for exploration, not just random weirdness that just stands there on its own without consequence.
I love Plato's allegory of the cave, but I think I came up with some flaw in it: how do the prisoners see eachother and still just believe in shadows? Can't they clearly know the difference between the real them and the unreal shadows they're seeing?
The prisoners are chained so that they can't move their necks and see each other. All they can see is the wall with the shadows on it so they don't see each each other.
Also, how would they ever even stay alive? Unless they saw 3D plates and bowls sliding in, holding these weird looking textures and goops. By then, they'd have already grasped the idea of 3 dimensions.
+dhodz hoddy Because unfortunately more people are willing to watch an attractive actor talk about a blockbuster than the nature of our reality not being as it seems.
+Nitish Anand Language is just a tool. What is really limited is the skill of each individual to externalize what he or she imagines. If you practice, then you will become better and communicating what you see.
I remember in highschool my teacher told the shadow reality story so poorly I absolutely hated it and was really disinterested in anything philosophy for years. Luckily this series helps me appreciate philosophy much more
+Ethan Benjamin And we all know which is the higher honor, of course! ...the Oscar. Definitely the Oscar. But we're glad we could be a part of his very honor-filled week! -Nicole
Crash course is so amazing! Not only are they funny and short, but they teach a lot, and you can relate them to your own life. Thank you so much for all the videos you guys create
I just want to point out that Leo never stole ideas from anyone in Inception. He manipulated people by putting ideas in their sub - conscious mind making them believe it was their own original thought. I love these videos guys keep up the good work.
I've always thought that's Plato's allegory of the Cave to be a great way to describe the psychedelic experience, and how hard it is to relate to 'normal' reality, and friends and family afterwards.
Lewis Carroll included a version of the "no cat" riddle in Alice Through the Looking Glass: "I see nobody ahead of me." "Well, Nobody must be faster than you, then!" Douglas Adams also put one in the Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure: there's an inventory item called No Tea, and you must have both tea and no tea to solve a puzzle. So this seems to me to be a very British riddle.
If "no cat" is a strange creature with 2 tails, then it follows that "every cat" must also be a strange creature, and as the argument states, this "every cat" creature has 3 tails. It is therefore a sound argument, as it is not talking about the common animal that we refer to as a cat.
Every cat is not a strange creature, it's regular cat. The premise doesn't state that every cat is a no cat. So, the argument is valid here but not correct.
The Cat / No Cat thing makes "sense" on in English. In my native language, you cannot build such an argument. The grammar and syntax prohibit such a way saying things.
+Erik Žiak (tramstefanikova) it's fascinating how much hidden assumptions about the nature of reality are built into language. Some ideas are un-thinkable in some languages, including delusional ones.
+Enkidu Shamesh On the other hand, the Slovak language can lead to very different logical fallacies when used. Every language is based on a set of "boxes" and can lead to funny interpretations.
+Erik Žiak (tramstefanikova) Ah, yes. Our beloved multiple negatives. Maybe that's why English got rid of them during the Enlightenment - British philosophers wanted to create tricky syllogisms.
Another example of discovering a new reality could be that you find out about negative aspects of a friend who seemed to be very nice. So if you tell this your other friends they probably won't believe it because he/she seems to be so nice. Then there will be the problem that you cannot look at the person the same way because he/she is not as nice as he/she pretended to be.
This reminds me of the Assassin's Creed quote: "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." Sounds weird and inconclusive at first but in Revelations, Ezio Auditore explains it somewhat along the lines of what follows: Nothing is true refers to the fact that the foundations of what we see as reality are unstable and temporary, changing as we gain knowledge. Everything is permitted refers to the fact that we are the consequence of and responsible for our own actions and what we do and the decisions we take are what define us. I find this quite philosophically beautiful.
〈-thatguyoverthere Instead of being a copier, why don't you come up with something original. I'm sure if u sat n thought about it for awhile you could. Or does that sound just too much work?
+NeonsStyle And now in spite of you I'm also going to "steal it". Glad to see you're proud of your little joke, but it isn't anything more than a name. Don't act so touchy.
What an amazing video! I like to view ourselves as still in the process of learning, and therefore we are ‘In the Dark’ about many aspects of reality. One of the most fascinating experiences we can have in life is realizing or discovering something that completely shifts our understanding of reality and Truth. Thanks CC :)
I remember questioning my reality when I was three or so. I became concerned because I realized that when I was dreaming, my dreams felt real. If I couldn't tell dreams weren't real when I was dreaming, how could I tell that reality was real when I'm experiencing that?
+CW AtWork because you dont dream the same dream all the time. thats how you know those are dreams and this is reality. also all the other people having exactly the same experience as you, reality. not being able to fly, reality, not having peoples faces melt away or suddenly become other people, reality.
Crusher O'Lies I know my dreams aren't real, but there isn't anything that proves that this reality is real. Just because there doesn't seem to be anything more real than what I perceive, it doesn't mean it's truly real. Just because you seem to behave independently with your own thoughts, that doesn't mean you're real. Just because I can't break the rules of this apparent existence, it doesn't mean it's real. Hell, I'm not even totally convinced by the idea of, "I think, therefore I am". I mean, I think I think, but do I really? If I created a computer game and made one of the characters inside the game insist that it thinks, does that make it real? How could the game character tell the difference? I've long since decided that what is "real" doesn't really matter. I'll just roll with what seems to be real until I have a reason to doubt it. Even at that, I might even deliberately choose an existence that I know isn't real. Why does "real" automatically mean "better"?
Hey, I'm a Chem teacher. Just letting you know (1) I'm stealing some of your drawings and metaphors to motivate teens to want to understand reality. (2) the parallel between the cave and romantic attraction (I changed it on the go to falling in love so I wouldn't need to divert) made one of my students really emotional and she clapped at the end of the lesson. Great vids!
Something that would be extremely useful with these series would be a reading list or similar for people who are interested and want to delve deeper. I would be happy to purchase through an Amazon affiliate link.
Iván Ospina Umbreon is just bulky in special defense and defense not in attack or physical attack. It's basically just a wall and espeon is a special attack
Until watching this video I thought very few people thought the same!! Now I feel better that there are more people who think like this!!! Thank you, Hank!!
Wow. Thanks for an amazing episode, I had heard about Plato's famous Myth of the Cave before, but to wrap it up so nicely the way you did... I have to start study philosophy!
Oh man...why couldn't I have found this series 6 months from now? when there will be a bingeable amount of episodes... This is so good! I want more NOW!!
I'm glad this is briefly introducing people to the surface level of some concepts in philosophy, but I'm beginning to realise that these videos are waaay too short to show people the significance of what philosophers actually do. The allegory of the cave was so close to touching on Plato's point (which illustrates the notion of the Forms, which do so much theoretical work in the rest of his philosophy and continue to be a point of debate in modern philosophy), but I guess for time reasons it was chosen not to go deeper into it. Sorry, perhaps I'm just being an insecure philosophy major here, worried people won't see the significance in philosophy and dismiss it prematurely if you don't link it to a further point, like the metaphysical explanatory power Plato hoped to gain from positing the Forms. I'm guessing I just wanted this series to smash it out of the park because Crash Course is so great and philosophy is close to my heart. Still, there is time. We'll see.
hey! since it's been so long since you posted this, I was wondering what you were doing now? I love Philosophy but it doesn't seem to lead into many career paths.
Emily Richardson I ended up doing it at postgrad. I initially wanted to do a PhD and become a stuffy professional academic, but I had a minor mental health crisis and didn’t do as well in my master’s year as I could have. It remains a potential option, but it’s on the back burner. After my masters year, I spent some time working at a cinema and then I spent a year at a copywriting company. I’m currently unemployed in the time of COVID. Yay! // Re philosophy’s career prospects: it won’t lead you into anything directly, but there are plenty of marketing-type jobs you can get into with a degree that’s ultimately about persuasion. I also know a few people who used their philosophy undergrad as a basis to convert into a law postgrad. Philosophy and law are very compatible. // I guess what I’d say is, I personally am not a shining philosophy grad success story, but one can easily get into a plethora of middle class careers off the back of a philosophy degree. Most employers who don’t require specialised knowledge are interested in how your degree made you a better problem solver, and philosophy is just intense problem solving.
Oh, and I know a lot of people who became civil servants - which might be in my future, too, if all my non-anonymous political posting doesn’t come back to bite me
+Christina Huang I was all excited to read flatland, and be wowed by its majesty, and I found it simplistic, out-dated, and cringe-induceingly sexist (I mean, I know it was written during evil times for women, but really? men are square, two dimensional beings but women are one dimensional lines? REALLY!?) Honestly, A Wrinkle in Time is a better book. Still a bit out dated, but it at least can still resonate with a modern audience.
+Christina Huang Pretty sure Hank has plenty of examples in literature and pop culture to cite as various forms of plato's allegory from various centuries throughout the centuries. He could have easily used Alice in Wonderland, or The Wizard of Oz, or The Chronicles of Narnia or even Harry Potter to make his point as they all involve someone leaving this world for another one and seeing something that everyone else is otherwise blind to (or could at least be interpreted that way). But considering the primary audience of these videos is high school and college students in their early 20s, and he's only got roughly 10 minutes, he's going to choose a reference that reiterates this classic theme they are more likely to be familiar with.
Me neither :/ but consider this, if your arm splitted into two at the elbow, would you have three arms? but then we would have to consider what defines an arm. in the tail's case, would it be to have two "limbs" that protrude outwards anywhere on your spinal bones, or only at the coxis? PS: this is getting pretty interesting :P
Aaron Smith Some are, some are not, being a fox or not is not really important in this scenario, if it's a Not-Cat, it's good enough, even if espeon was based of a cat, it would still be a Not-Cat, since it's a Pokémon, the thing I'm not sure is if it has or not two tails.
No, a spoon is a spoon even if you believe that it does not exist. There are things that I would consider to objectivly true. Like a certain element always reacting the same under the same condtions. Now even if you change words around, the element in itself has the same properties.
Raven Grey Not, it is more that, we do not know what compounds or elements we humans are. But we know that there is a reason, a cause as to what made the compound or element what it is and a reason as to why it reacts the way it does.
But in all seriousness, this made me think of how I'm a prisoner of my education. It's something that can set me free into the world, but also keep me from developing important life skills because students are kept in such a sheltered environment. I haven't experienced the full force of independent life yet, but I'm waiting for it to happen, and I imagine it's going to be a shock based on my upbringing. Love how there's a series on philosophy by the by :3 I'm thinking of showing this in philo club
+Anthony Stuart We honestly had no idea. It wasn't until about 11 or 12 today that it hit me how lucky we got with this one! The fates have smiled upon Leo and also upon Crash Course. And it was good. -Nicole
A whole new world! I did not experience romantic or physical attraction for the first time as a tween. I experienced it as a toddler. Long time to wait.
Espeon! So glad there was a pokémon reference in this video. Happy 20th anniversary of pokémon! Thanky you for the that awesome animation. Keep this series going as awesome as it is right now! :)
Ina Wang I'm beginning to see the benefit of this academic course. Don't think I've ever talked to someone in the comment section of a RUclips video about IB before. Are you as excited as I am? I'm excited.
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Putting on glasses for the first time is also a good reality shock.
"Oh my god, trees have individual leaves!!!"
Great episode but I am surprised that Zhuangzi's butterfly was not mentioned in this episode.
"Once I dreamt that I was a butterfly, enjoying myself to the full and not knowing that I'm a man. Suddenly I woke up and found himself to be a man. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."
One of my absolute favorite mind benders!!
Yeah, I was expecting it to be there too, I love this one. I use it a lot lol.
I watch black butler, that was used in there, Black Butler made me want to try and think like that more. Black Butler got me in to philosophy.
its a crash course on western philosophy
Jimmy here. This sucks just as much as being ex dora
Nothing is better than eternal happiness
A ham sandwich is better than nothing
A ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness
What kind of ham sandwhich :|
On rye, with mustard 8)
If we’re sitting here watching youtube videos on philosophical reasoning, we’re very unlikely to have been the first of our friends to discover romantic attraction!
+Sean M The video didn't say it was *reciprocated* romantic attraction (if that's what you're implying).
You'd be surprised who's watching this.....being be so quick to assume
+Ali B don't *
now that is your abductive reasoning!!
you couldn't be more wrong.
“Plato wants us to see that we,right now, are prisoners in a cave. Everything in our world is actually a mere shadow of a higher reality. Just as the man in the story once mistook shadows for real things, we are currently prisoners in a cave of our own. But rather than mistaking shadows for the material objects of the ordinary world, our mistake is thinking that the material objects of the ordinary world are the most real things.”
~ Crash Course Philosophy #4
I used to think that Christianity was the outside world. Then I left the cave of religion. It was an awakening as powerful as leaving Plato's cave.
+FirstRisingSouI That's interesting. Have you documented your journey anywhere?
What does this mean?
+FirstRisingSouI Born in Tibetan buddhist society, Grew up in one, became one and used to think meself to be one of them until one day I read a book called Anti-Christ by my glorious Nietzsche. Since then I started to wonder and question. Wondered how when i listen to buddhists chanting, I don't understand a thing. It is chanted in Tibetan yet my language is completely diferent. Then read various Tibetan textbooks, realized my belief was a lie and now I am atheist. My only concern is philosophy. Only that 3 million people in my country still blindly believes in religion. Refuses to think, change, do something for them.
Most sad thing is buddhism they believe is not can not even qualify as buddhism :(
How to start a flame war 101
+Prisera1221 comment "this is the best anime" on an Avatar the Last Airbender video
"How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real" -Jaden Smith, the modern day Plato.
at least he tried
+Master Therion "I watch Twilight every night" -Jaden Smith
+Demian Haki Define 'analytically guided started position'.
Marxian Hobbes Your question has to actually seek out something. It should offer a possibility for exploration, not just random weirdness that just stands there on its own without consequence.
Demian Haki How do you know if something is legitimately seeking information for 'exploration' or is 'random weirdness' bereft of consequence?
Wow. A discourse on the nature of reality, and absolutely NO mention of The Matrix . . . huh, maybe he's waiting on the Rene Descartes video for that.
+EnvoyOfTheBlackAbyss You, my friend, are a very clever student of philosophy and popular culture. ;)
-Nicole
That'll be with the brain in a vat section I'm sure :)
+EnvoyOfTheBlackAbyss i was thinking the same thing.
*walks out of the cave*
"dodge bullets? I don't have to."
+EnvoyOfTheBlackAbyss I was wondering if the Matrix is becoming too old to work as a reference for the kids.
Maybe he's aware of the Streisand effect and refuses to touch on it
I love Plato's allegory of the cave, but I think I came up with some flaw in it: how do the prisoners see eachother and still just believe in shadows? Can't they clearly know the difference between the real them and the unreal shadows they're seeing?
The prisoners are chained so that they can't move their necks and see each other. All they can see is the wall with the shadows on it so they don't see each each other.
Nice point! Thanks, Nerdfighter! ;)
Also, how would they ever even stay alive? Unless they saw 3D plates and bowls sliding in, holding these weird looking textures and goops. By then, they'd have already grasped the idea of 3 dimensions.
It's just a thought experiment that's over-simplifying just to get it's point across.
Right, everything here is in theory only.
Example of Reality - This video is not about Leonardo DiCapirio.
kl
Guess he want more views by putting Leonardo's name on it
+leon1234578 yeah
+dhodz hoddy Because unfortunately more people are willing to watch an attractive actor talk about a blockbuster than the nature of our reality not being as it seems.
+Nipun Kothare It's a Nolan film. I think he should thank Nolan instead.
Leonardo diCaprio and a bear. I see what you did there.
What'd he do?
Saeed Baig A "The Revenant" reference. The movie for which Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar.
I see what you did there with your sentence! It rhymes, so it must be true lol
in a way language is just a limited sentences of words for our endless imaginations.
😯
+Nitish Anand your imaginations are actually limited to what you have experienced
When you're trying to make a deep statement, but it's as shallow as the kiddie pool
+Nitish Anand "I can see sounds"
+Nitish Anand Language is just a tool. What is really limited is the skill of each individual to externalize what he or she imagines. If you practice, then you will become better and communicating what you see.
I'm going to name my next Espeon "No Cat" now.
Don't use Espeon.
Use "Exteme Evoboost" Eevee instead...
Keiji Dsaver k
Same
i have a toy espeon, but what if i saw a real one...
I remember in highschool my teacher told the shadow reality story so poorly I absolutely hated it and was really disinterested in anything philosophy for years. Luckily this series helps me appreciate philosophy much more
ready for a philosophy joke?
whats red and invisible?...
...no tomatoes .
Nailed it.
A ball behind the chair?
Ron with the cloak on?
Bixa orellana colored spherical shaped prop near the sun?
I need more information
+Kyriakos 95
!!!SPLAT!!!
Infrared light
@@arandanosdelhuerto1622 that's only kinda red though
So many honors for Leo in the past 24 hours…CrashCourse…an Oscar…
+Ethan Benjamin And we all know which is the higher honor, of course!
...the Oscar. Definitely the Oscar. But we're glad we could be a part of his very honor-filled week!
-Nicole
+CrashCourse Owwww
+CrashCourse Roasted, toasted, and burnt to a crisp.
+CrashCourse You guys rock. Leo rocks. Everybody rocks!!! :)
Nothing is better than good sex, bad sex is better than nothing. Therefore, bad sex is better than good sex.
Lmao
+Ronenlahat good one, I'll remember this example for future use. Thanks
lol
+ryan secord shut yo dumb azz up
+Halopunk90 ad hominem, you fuckface.
Crash course is so amazing! Not only are they funny and short, but they teach a lot, and you can relate them to your own life. Thank you so much for all the videos you guys create
I just want to point out that Leo never stole ideas from anyone in Inception. He manipulated people by putting ideas in their sub - conscious mind making them believe it was their own original thought. I love these videos guys keep up the good work.
I've always thought that's Plato's allegory of the Cave to be a great way to describe the psychedelic experience, and how hard it is to relate to 'normal' reality, and friends and family afterwards.
how far in advance was this recorded? because this was so appropriate for today, considering last night. leo got his oscar. god bless.
If some big announcement involving the Matrix happens next week, I will be very impressed.
Lewis Carroll included a version of the "no cat" riddle in Alice Through the Looking Glass: "I see nobody ahead of me." "Well, Nobody must be faster than you, then!" Douglas Adams also put one in the Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure: there's an inventory item called No Tea, and you must have both tea and no tea to solve a puzzle. So this seems to me to be a very British riddle.
Espeon
+George Andrikopoulos Is that even a question?!
coen pompstra You're right ... let me rephrase that ...
How many Pokemon fans here ?!
Even as somebody who doesn't play Pokémon, I could tell the "No Cat" was blatantly a Pokémon. XD
Yup but vaporeon is my favorite
Whay do you mean.... thats No Cat xD
Any video with an Espeon is a win in my book.
Today in class we talked about Plato, I watched this video a long time ago and remembered it. Had to rewatch it today. Makes so much sense.
(Also Plato is called Platon in Germany LMAO)
Nice timing marketers
I like how No Cat is Espeon.
+Tyrannigon64 I was really hoping someone would say that!
Krislyn Placide b
yeah i agree lol
If "no cat" is a strange creature with 2 tails, then it follows that "every cat" must also be a strange creature, and as the argument states, this "every cat" creature has 3 tails. It is therefore a sound argument, as it is not talking about the common animal that we refer to as a cat.
No Cat, and Every Cat, are different creatures than any cat from earth!
Every cat is not a strange creature, it's regular cat. The premise doesn't state that every cat is a no cat. So, the argument is valid here but not correct.
Let us have a moment of silence for the No Oscar for Leo meme. May it rest in peace.
+bucca2 had not wach was going to wach but now i am spoil
The Cat / No Cat thing makes "sense" on in English. In my native language, you cannot build such an argument. The grammar and syntax prohibit such a way saying things.
+Erik Žiak (tramstefanikova) it's fascinating how much hidden assumptions about the nature of reality are built into language. Some ideas are un-thinkable in some languages, including delusional ones.
+Enkidu Shamesh On the other hand, the Slovak language can lead to very different logical fallacies when used. Every language is based on a set of "boxes" and can lead to funny interpretations.
+Erik Žiak (tramstefanikova) Ah, yes. Our beloved multiple negatives. Maybe that's why English got rid of them during the Enlightenment - British philosophers wanted to create tricky syllogisms.
Isn't it funny how Leo got an Oscar the day before this was released?
Another example of discovering a new reality could be that you find out about negative aspects of a friend who seemed to be very nice. So if you tell this your other friends they probably won't believe it because he/she seems to be so nice. Then there will be the problem that you cannot look at the person the same way because he/she is not as nice as he/she pretended to be.
This reminds me of the Assassin's Creed quote: "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
Sounds weird and inconclusive at first but in Revelations, Ezio Auditore explains it somewhat along the lines of what follows:
Nothing is true refers to the fact that the foundations of what we see as reality are unstable and temporary, changing as we gain knowledge. Everything is permitted refers to the fact that we are the consequence of and responsible for our own actions and what we do and the decisions we take are what define us.
I find this quite philosophically beautiful.
this quote is originally from the philosophr Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is only the beginning of wisdom" -Edward Kenway
"Mistakes the absence of something as the presence of something." This line is oddly beautiful.
If there's one praise I hate the most is complicated hard very hypnotic for closing down minds
Thank you Crash Course!!!
I've learned from you than I've learned from my school.More power to all of the team!!!
This is why my computer is called Platoscave :)
That is a brilliant name (pun intended). I hope you don't mind if I steal it ;)
〈-thatguyoverthere Instead of being a copier, why don't you come up with something original. I'm sure if u sat n thought about it for awhile you could. Or does that sound just too much work?
+NeonsStyle And now in spite of you I'm also going to "steal it". Glad to see you're proud of your little joke, but it isn't anything more than a name. Don't act so touchy.
+NeonsStyle hacking... hacking...
Access acquired.
Roman Fox Go your hardest :)
What an amazing video! I like to view ourselves as still in the process of learning, and therefore we are ‘In the Dark’ about many aspects of reality. One of the most fascinating experiences we can have in life is realizing or discovering something that completely shifts our understanding of reality and Truth. Thanks CC :)
I remember questioning my reality when I was three or so. I became concerned because I realized that when I was dreaming, my dreams felt real. If I couldn't tell dreams weren't real when I was dreaming, how could I tell that reality was real when I'm experiencing that?
+CW AtWork because you dont dream the same dream all the time. thats how you know those are dreams and this is reality. also all the other people having exactly the same experience as you, reality. not being able to fly, reality, not having peoples faces melt away or suddenly become other people, reality.
Crusher O'Lies I know my dreams aren't real, but there isn't anything that proves that this reality is real. Just because there doesn't seem to be anything more real than what I perceive, it doesn't mean it's truly real. Just because you seem to behave independently with your own thoughts, that doesn't mean you're real. Just because I can't break the rules of this apparent existence, it doesn't mean it's real.
Hell, I'm not even totally convinced by the idea of, "I think, therefore I am". I mean, I think I think, but do I really?
If I created a computer game and made one of the characters inside the game insist that it thinks, does that make it real? How could the game character tell the difference?
I've long since decided that what is "real" doesn't really matter. I'll just roll with what seems to be real until I have a reason to doubt it.
Even at that, I might even deliberately choose an existence that I know isn't real. Why does "real" automatically mean "better"?
This is my new favorite video from all of the PBS Digital Studios channels.
Maybe it's also an illusion that Leo won the Oscar's today.
+huluminus *Oscars* it is not possessive, it is plural. :)
+Ray D. won an oscar
+Lumpy Toucan yes, he could have also said that haha :)
lol Somebody missed the point of the video
I was waiting for the bear-leo-revenant referance joke
"You couldn't hug a bear"
Pfsht, just watch me.
8:00 that breakdown is great to focus on when re-watching
Hey, I'm a Chem teacher. Just letting you know (1) I'm stealing some of your drawings and metaphors to motivate teens to want to understand reality. (2) the parallel between the cave and romantic attraction (I changed it on the go to falling in love so I wouldn't need to divert) made one of my students really emotional and she clapped at the end of the lesson.
Great vids!
Something that would be extremely useful with these series would be a reading list or similar for people who are interested and want to delve deeper. I would be happy to purchase through an Amazon affiliate link.
as if my depersonalization wasn't scary enough.
RavenBoy99 SERIOUSLY
Side effect of an understanding of philosophy?
are you *really* depersonalizing OR you just *think* you are
my next Espeon will be named No Cat lol. even thought it's technically a dog
+Coley Moles This is a good choice. Excellent approach to pet-naming.
-Nicole
+Coley Moles well technically it is a subspecies of a raccoon dog, the common ancestor of cats and dogs and Japanese call Tanuki
That just makes the name more fitting. A dog, after all, is no cat.
Iván Ospina Umbreon is just bulky in special defense and defense not in attack or physical attack. It's basically just a wall and espeon is a special attack
Until watching this video I thought very few people thought the same!! Now I feel better that there are more people who think like this!!! Thank you, Hank!!
This is the end of my binge. Loved it! Can't wait for the next one.
Wow. Thanks for an amazing episode, I had heard about Plato's famous Myth of the Cave before, but to wrap it up so nicely the way you did... I have to start study philosophy!
Something... something... Oscar joke.
+Nolan Thiessen too late
+Nolan Thiessen Sorry mate, Leo got his Oscar last night :P
But what if Leo didn't really win the Oscar and he is still in the dream world?
How would he know?
+seahawk124 Research!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fake Genuis
He wouldn't.
Are dreams even real? Is life real?
awesome approach to philosophy! I like how you don't only explain Plato's ideas but also formulate a deductive argument relating to it! keep it up!
I'm gonna listen to every course hosted by this guy. He is just awesome.
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here?
#letsberasistagain
+Anne Liu #LastWeekTonight
#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain
#BeProundofYourHeitageDonald
+Anne Liu Ah, the irony.
+Anne Liu so you're the person stuck in the cave talking trash while everybody else is enlightened?
graças a deus hoje existe legenda no youtube, aulas assim mais didáticas no Brasil nem se comparam
I've always loved Plato's allegory of The Cave. I first heard it referenced, much like this, to explain a movie : The Matrix.
Oh man...why couldn't I have found this series 6 months from now? when there will be a bingeable amount of episodes... This is so good! I want more NOW!!
finally someone said it...thank you hank :)
look forward to the rest of the series.
The no cat thingy blew my mind, I'm def going to use it in an argument to confuse a person 😭👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😭😂
I'm pretty sure real bears are soft too.
Icey Dicey wtf was that sentence
They probably are if they took a bath recently.
I thought the same thing. Hahaha.
I'm glad this is briefly introducing people to the surface level of some concepts in philosophy, but I'm beginning to realise that these videos are waaay too short to show people the significance of what philosophers actually do. The allegory of the cave was so close to touching on Plato's point (which illustrates the notion of the Forms, which do so much theoretical work in the rest of his philosophy and continue to be a point of debate in modern philosophy), but I guess for time reasons it was chosen not to go deeper into it.
Sorry, perhaps I'm just being an insecure philosophy major here, worried people won't see the significance in philosophy and dismiss it prematurely if you don't link it to a further point, like the metaphysical explanatory power Plato hoped to gain from positing the Forms. I'm guessing I just wanted this series to smash it out of the park because Crash Course is so great and philosophy is close to my heart. Still, there is time. We'll see.
I'm new to philosophy. Could you please suggest me some books from where I can get started? Thanks.
hey! since it's been so long since you posted this, I was wondering what you were doing now? I love Philosophy but it doesn't seem to lead into many career paths.
Emily Richardson I ended up doing it at postgrad. I initially wanted to do a PhD and become a stuffy professional academic, but I had a minor mental health crisis and didn’t do as well in my master’s year as I could have. It remains a potential option, but it’s on the back burner. After my masters year, I spent some time working at a cinema and then I spent a year at a copywriting company. I’m currently unemployed in the time of COVID. Yay! // Re philosophy’s career prospects: it won’t lead you into anything directly, but there are plenty of marketing-type jobs you can get into with a degree that’s ultimately about persuasion. I also know a few people who used their philosophy undergrad as a basis to convert into a law postgrad. Philosophy and law are very compatible. // I guess what I’d say is, I personally am not a shining philosophy grad success story, but one can easily get into a plethora of middle class careers off the back of a philosophy degree. Most employers who don’t require specialised knowledge are interested in how your degree made you a better problem solver, and philosophy is just intense problem solving.
Oh, and I know a lot of people who became civil servants - which might be in my future, too, if all my non-anonymous political posting doesn’t come back to bite me
@@philophos thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this series. I was doing my revision on Plato and Aristotle earlier today :)
This is literally the plot of the movie Room lol
But is this the real life or is this just fantasy,are we caught in a landslide with no escape from reality?
NO NO WE WILL NOT HAVE THIS!!!
+미셜비 I'm just a poor boy!
+미셜비 NOOOOOOO
+Umar Chaudhari STOPPPP NO
MORE
+Umar Chaudhari Because I'm easy come, easy go!
I watched the episode while hugging my teddy bear :3
well duck you
+Fluff face why?
You mentioned other PBS Digital Studios shows but didn't mention Idea Channel, possibly the most relevant one to philosophy?
Also, I see you, Espeon!
I just watched "Inception". MIND BLOWN.
I have been hoping for Crash Course Philosophy for ages now! Thank you so much!!!
"The bear your spent your first years of life cuddling" awkward moment when I'm 20 and I still have a teddy
nojerama1996 You'll be in "the first years of life" long after leaving your 20s lol. Unless you die young. In which case at least you had a teddy.
If all you have is a teddy, you lack the bear necessities
Leo won an oscar!!!
Is this really real...?
I love how related videos are Leonardo DiCaprio videos
1:35
Mate, i was scared of that very same thing when i were a kid.
But.
"A reality, is a reality, fake or not - We will live through it either way"
That espeon cameo
7:10 It's Espeon! Happy 20th Anniversary Pokémon :D
+TheHersey Umbreon is the best eevelution. :(
Wow no mention of Flatland by Edwin Abbot?
love that book.
philosopy+math=a good book
*physics
+Christina Huang *math
+Christina Huang I was all excited to read flatland, and be wowed by its majesty, and I found it simplistic, out-dated, and cringe-induceingly sexist (I mean, I know it was written during evil times for women, but really? men are square, two dimensional beings but women are one dimensional lines? REALLY!?)
Honestly, A Wrinkle in Time is a better book. Still a bit out dated, but it at least can still resonate with a modern audience.
+Christina Huang Pretty sure Hank has plenty of examples in literature and pop culture to cite as various forms of plato's allegory from various centuries throughout the centuries. He could have easily used Alice in Wonderland, or The Wizard of Oz, or The Chronicles of Narnia or even Harry Potter to make his point as they all involve someone leaving this world for another one and seeing something that everyone else is otherwise blind to (or could at least be interpreted that way). But considering the primary audience of these videos is high school and college students in their early 20s, and he's only got roughly 10 minutes, he's going to choose a reference that reiterates this classic theme they are more likely to be familiar with.
I like Carl Sagan’s interpretation of the allegory of the cave when he tries to explain the 4th dimension to us.
I really like the way Hank speaks and pronounces words. So clear and pleasant for my ears! Lol
"to be honest id just like to be looking at any cat"
i see what you did there ;)
B-But Espeon does not have 2 tails, it has one which splits in 2 at almost the tip :O
***** Maybe, but it may also be one tail, which just has two ends, and not exactly being two tails, each with different movement...
Me neither :/ but consider this, if your arm splitted into two at the elbow, would you have three arms? but then we would have to consider what defines an arm. in the tail's case, would it be to have two "limbs" that protrude outwards anywhere on your spinal bones, or only at the coxis?
PS: this is getting pretty interesting :P
+Bluespheal I always thought eevee and friends were supposed to be foxes
Aaron Smith Some are, some are not, being a fox or not is not really important in this scenario, if it's a Not-Cat, it's good enough, even if espeon was based of a cat, it would still be a Not-Cat, since it's a Pokémon, the thing I'm not sure is if it has or not two tails.
Espeon doesn't have two tails, it has one that splits into two ends. ESPEON IS NOT NO CAT.
+Pikayumyums Yes, it is forked.
Never take anything for granted; including this statement
I am reminded of the "sound of silence " song by Simon and Garfunkel!awesome vid
I fell asleep to this video, better check to see if the top's still spinning
I thought Leonardo diCaprio was holding an Oscar in the thumbnail image. :D
So reality can change according how we see it?
No, a spoon is a spoon even if you believe that it does not exist. There are things that I would consider to objectivly true. Like a certain element always reacting the same under the same condtions. Now even if you change words around, the element in itself has the same properties.
Jonas Strzyz Ohh I see. One elements can be used eventhough we called it's name with different words?
Raven Grey
Not, it is more that, we do not know what compounds or elements we humans are. But we know that there is a reason, a cause as to what made the compound or element what it is and a reason as to why it reacts the way it does.
Jonas Strzyz Ohh, thanks for the information
Raven Grey
Hope it was helpful.
But in all seriousness, this made me think of how I'm a prisoner of my education. It's something that can set me free into the world, but also keep me from developing important life skills because students are kept in such a sheltered environment. I haven't experienced the full force of independent life yet, but I'm waiting for it to happen, and I imagine it's going to be a shock based on my upbringing. Love how there's a series on philosophy by the by :3 I'm thinking of showing this in philo club
Series is good. Came down here to appreciate how optimistic and cheerful the into is.
they MUST have timed this for the oscars... I bet they expected to get views from the "leo got snubbed again" memes but instead got this XD
+Anthony Stuart We honestly had no idea. It wasn't until about 11 or 12 today that it hit me how lucky we got with this one! The fates have smiled upon Leo and also upon Crash Course. And it was good.
-Nicole
I spaced out once I saw espeon appear in the cat example...
Closest thing to a non-mutated, dual tailed animal?
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher!
A whole new world! I did not experience romantic or physical attraction for the first time as a tween. I experienced it as a toddler. Long time to wait.
Espeon! So glad there was a pokémon reference in this video. Happy 20th anniversary of pokémon!
Thanky you for the that awesome animation. Keep this series going as awesome as it is right now! :)
this describes TOK in 9:02 mins
+Bella Sophie Yes!! Another IB student!
:))
+Bella Sophie My god, we DO exist outside of my school. Did you guys get to watch Dollhouse in TOK too?
+Synthetic Reign No, but we watched a scene of the Matrix when learning this WOK.
Ina Wang I'm beginning to see the benefit of this academic course. Don't think I've ever talked to someone in the comment section of a RUclips video about IB before. Are you as excited as I am? I'm excited.
7:07 Ayyy, Espeon!
The teddy bear example though lol
I am loving this series
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