Enjoyed this! Edit: Also, great work! This is not a channel for 'entertainment', and it's not material for everyone. I think you handle these weighty topics with great care and understanding. Appreciate it. Keep it up! Rock on!!
Very articulate explanation of what is Decarete's philosophy and how it has laid the foundations for our modern world. ...Well done!. I liked, and I am now a subscriber.
@@TheLivingPhilosophy I have a similar video I wanna make about the effects of Descartes philosophy on Modernity. I'll def make some "homages" to this one.
This is going to sound odd, but this reminded me of the excellent anime movie Ghost in the Shell and its even better follow-up films (the anime series itself as well.) It gets extremely philosophical!
Not strange at all in fact I remember a friend recommending that to me years ago after a conversation about the same thing so yeah I guess the ghost in the shell maps over onto the mind body problem and the problem of the evil demon. Not sure though now that you mention it I must watch it I think I started but all I remember is this first scene in like an elevator so a decade later it might be time for a revisit
@@TheLivingPhilosophy I have seen many countless series and films, and it continues to be the most relevant to my life experience. However, (and this is actually to its credit), the plot is SO heavy that it required quite a bit of re-watching to really, fully absorb what was going on in that world. I often wonder what kind of future we will build, and if it will resemble that world at all. It seems likely to me that we will face threats due to horrifyingly powerful technologies that become commonplace, more and more so. Maybe not to the point where it becomes a big red button for our mutually assured destruction that anyone and everyone can push, acting as the Big Filter on our progress as life forms, but maybe something like it. The Matrix touches on this. Look what people of ill will are already doing with our military technologies. I shutter to think what schemes they’ll dream up once more astounding things are possible for even small groups.
@@TimBitten Wow that's high praise. I know what you mean about a movie being heavy but fulfilling. My favourite movie is the Tree of Life which though I've watched five or six times I still don't fully grasp but every time I come away from it with a wealth of thoughts and insight. I'd be more than happy to find another movie that does that for me so you've just send Ghost in the Shell right to the top of my list I'm in agreement that technology is the Pandora's Box that could make a hell or heaven out of the future. It's a scary exciting time to be alive; it feels like we are walking a knife edge as a species
@@TheLivingPhilosophy if you dig the Ghost in the Shell film itself at all, the series that follows, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the one after that, Second Gig, are absolutely mandatory. lol They’re where the real meat and potatoes of the plot unfolds! They condensed both into films as well, and if you’re pressed for time the second series can be replaced by its film, but man...that first series. Just amazing. Watching its film of the condensed plot afterwards was all that gave me any HOPE of understanding it fully. lol That, and reading some online analysis. I’m really excited to turn you on to this series, because there just isn’t anything else like it. The only series that comes even remotely close is Death Note, but it’s focused a little too much on personal melodrama for me at times.
Do you think there were any underlying social or political reasons for Descartes' shift in understanding that led to modern philosophy, or was he just really smart and people caught on?
Good question I think you can look at Descartes as a mirror of the changes that were happening in the background. The trends were all there and they were both social and psychological. In Galileo and Copernius you can see the growing questioning mind, in Florence you can see the flourishing of the Renaissance worldview and then you have Columbus and the age of discovery. All of these trends are bubbling under the surface. The culture was going through a transformation. Descartes just happens to be a person in which these trends crystallised. So I think if Descartes hadn't been around then I believe these trends would have crystallised in some other pioneer but the result would be much the same although it's fascinating to imagine how whether the character of a different pioneer would have presented a different direction forward. It's impossible to say of course
5:38 actually x and y exist as appearances to reality. It is only the observer or witness that is, by witness it is not the one who experiences, is not the experienced and not the experience yet is, and absolutely is. x and y will influence mathematics because all the universe is is just mathematics thus structure built from matter. matter is to consciousness as x & y is to the witness. You are none other than the conscious witness
Nothing but structure although structure cannot exist without matter so what is matter when compared to consciousness. Matter cannot exist yet it is apparent. Ponder
Enjoyed this!
Edit: Also, great work! This is not a channel for 'entertainment', and it's not material for everyone. I think you handle these weighty topics with great care and understanding. Appreciate it. Keep it up! Rock on!!
Thanks Scott!! The kind words are much appreciated as ever!
excellent
Very articulate explanation of what is Decarete's philosophy
and how it has laid the foundations for our modern world.
...Well done!. I liked, and I am now a subscriber.
great summary, thank you!
Nice.
Great video! Keep going! Thanks a lot!
Thanks Caleb!
Great video!
Thanks Yusa!
This video deserves more views!
Hahaha thanks Zach. Even I'd forgotten about this one 😆
@@TheLivingPhilosophy I have a similar video I wanna make about the effects of Descartes philosophy on Modernity. I'll def make some "homages" to this one.
@@StrangeCornersOfThought Awesome! I look forward to it!
This is going to sound odd, but this reminded me of the excellent anime movie Ghost in the Shell and its even better follow-up films (the anime series itself as well.) It gets extremely philosophical!
Not strange at all in fact I remember a friend recommending that to me years ago after a conversation about the same thing so yeah I guess the ghost in the shell maps over onto the mind body problem and the problem of the evil demon. Not sure though now that you mention it I must watch it I think I started but all I remember is this first scene in like an elevator so a decade later it might be time for a revisit
@@TheLivingPhilosophy I have seen many countless series and films, and it continues to be the most relevant to my life experience. However, (and this is actually to its credit), the plot is SO heavy that it required quite a bit of re-watching to really, fully absorb what was going on in that world.
I often wonder what kind of future we will build, and if it will resemble that world at all. It seems likely to me that we will face threats due to horrifyingly powerful technologies that become commonplace, more and more so. Maybe not to the point where it becomes a big red button for our mutually assured destruction that anyone and everyone can push, acting as the Big Filter on our progress as life forms, but maybe something like it. The Matrix touches on this. Look what people of ill will are already doing with our military technologies. I shutter to think what schemes they’ll dream up once more astounding things are possible for even small groups.
@@TimBitten Wow that's high praise. I know what you mean about a movie being heavy but fulfilling. My favourite movie is the Tree of Life which though I've watched five or six times I still don't fully grasp but every time I come away from it with a wealth of thoughts and insight. I'd be more than happy to find another movie that does that for me so you've just send Ghost in the Shell right to the top of my list
I'm in agreement that technology is the Pandora's Box that could make a hell or heaven out of the future. It's a scary exciting time to be alive; it feels like we are walking a knife edge as a species
@@TheLivingPhilosophy if you dig the Ghost in the Shell film itself at all, the series that follows, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and the one after that, Second Gig, are absolutely mandatory. lol They’re where the real meat and potatoes of the plot unfolds! They condensed both into films as well, and if you’re pressed for time the second series can be replaced by its film, but man...that first series. Just amazing. Watching its film of the condensed plot afterwards was all that gave me any HOPE of understanding it fully. lol That, and reading some online analysis. I’m really excited to turn you on to this series, because there just isn’t anything else like it. The only series that comes even remotely close is Death Note, but it’s focused a little too much on personal melodrama for me at times.
Do you think there were any underlying social or political reasons for Descartes' shift in understanding that led to modern philosophy, or was he just really smart and people caught on?
Good question I think you can look at Descartes as a mirror of the changes that were happening in the background. The trends were all there and they were both social and psychological. In Galileo and Copernius you can see the growing questioning mind, in Florence you can see the flourishing of the Renaissance worldview and then you have Columbus and the age of discovery. All of these trends are bubbling under the surface. The culture was going through a transformation. Descartes just happens to be a person in which these trends crystallised. So I think if Descartes hadn't been around then I believe these trends would have crystallised in some other pioneer but the result would be much the same although it's fascinating to imagine how whether the character of a different pioneer would have presented a different direction forward. It's impossible to say of course
5:38 actually x and y exist as appearances to reality. It is only the observer or witness that is, by witness it is not the one who experiences, is not the experienced and not the experience yet is, and absolutely is. x and y will influence mathematics because all the universe is is just mathematics thus structure built from matter. matter is to consciousness as x & y is to the witness. You are none other than the conscious witness
How about we are all little particals of time moving through space?
Nothing but structure although structure cannot exist without matter so what is matter when compared to consciousness. Matter cannot exist yet it is apparent. Ponder
Whatsup with the lip sync?
Also consider, I am before I think?
haha maybe maybe I mean what Descartes means by think is actually broader than what we mean it includes feelings and emotions as well
@@TheLivingPhilosophy so then what is this I? And does this I think, feel, know, etc?
The teaching of medieval and early modern philosophy should be restricted to people with long hair and rhotic accents.
haha not gonna lie had to watch a video to understand rhotic so today I learned! thanks for the compliment I'll pass it on to the scholars on high