I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
I think that comes from a time when they didn't know about neuro-science and how to explain the brain activities (including all the mental states...) so they thought there must be something like a mind...
@@doubleoblit In absolute terms there isn't something called mind, "the mind" is just a concept. Like "love". It's a collection of mental states, biological impulses, nerves firing signals....
@@wonderlust_ In your first clause of your first sentence you used "isn't" in reference to the mind. In the next, and in the second sentence, you used some variant of the word "is." Is the mind IS, or is the mind ISN'T?
@@tutankhamenii8772 It isn't a touchable object in the physical reality, but rather is an abstract concept we came up with. Like the difference between brain and memory - brain is something tangible, a physical object, you can cut open - the memory on the other hand is a concept we use to describe different states of mind, mixed with emotions, basically brain activities. "The mind" is an abstract term like memory which describes mental states and brain activities.
@@wonderlust_ I get what you're saying. However, the "collection" you mentioned that comprises the mind included physical events, as well as mental states that may very well be reducible. We don't seem to have figured that last part out yet. Mental causation being the most fascinating to me. It's that "why am I responding to you physically simply "because" I perceive images?" part. And how am I able to?
Behaviorism has a negative connotation, but it is more right than wrong. When you take a psychology course the first thing you learn is behaviorism. It has a negative connotation because people want to believe we are more than just puppets on a string. People want to believe we have free will. The reality is this: our genes and internal biological interacts with our environment, we call that “behavior” but the term “culture” can also be used here. Your brain then form a rationalization about your behavior. Our desires conforms to our behavior. Biology > culture > ideology. Searle is right about most things, but when it comes to free will and epiphenomenalism, his brain turns off.
Between biology and culture there must be mental processes, otherwise you are denying the Very experience that are responsible for culture, two people can see a building and the concepts they derive may differ greatly. I dont even need to talk about all the societal and social problems this view can bring, when ideas seaze to be taken into consideration in favor of superficial dehumanizing utilitarian actions, which are themselves ideas but dont realize that ideas are everything.
Mind was and still is just a word to refer to human functions that are not visible or physically manifested. Inteligent people decided that because it is gramatically a noun it must be a thing. And go insane over an illusion...
What is that which provokes you to express this view of yours...? It is a mental state - 'wish to express yourself, your view''. This is part of what we call a mind. Mind is not a thing, not a noun, it is probably a process, so a verb. This doesn't mean mind is an illusion - the way you (and Dennett) seem to be saying... It is there but as a process, not as a thing (or noun).
thanks for posting this whoever you are. I am glad to be able to find this information available. Good work.
Look at that picture. He's still liftin' his arm. Oh yaahhhh...
it took me 45 minutes to comprehend the first 10 minutes. worth it.
I have ADHD and this is oddly easy to focus in on
He’s a good teacher. He repeats the ideas over and over in different and same ways. It sticks easily. ADHD here too.
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
Death lectures from Yale, also here on RUclips.
ruclips.net/p/PLbqptsLnIiEYGXmLmeKqN1rYaTBuBcVFD
The reading list can be found at
webpages.uidaho.edu/~morourke/442-phil/Fall2008/Syllabus442-542F2008.htm
what is the reading resources Dr.Searle is giving to his students?
Great!
where can i find the readings
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Thanks a lot
I think that comes from a time when they didn't know about neuro-science and how to explain the brain activities (including all the mental states...) so they thought there must be something like a mind...
There *is* something like a mind... it's called 'the mind'.
@@doubleoblit In absolute terms there isn't something called mind, "the mind" is just a concept. Like "love". It's a collection of mental states, biological impulses, nerves firing signals....
@@wonderlust_ In your first clause of your first sentence you used "isn't" in reference to the mind. In the next, and in the second sentence, you used some variant of the word "is." Is the mind IS, or is the mind ISN'T?
@@tutankhamenii8772 It isn't a touchable object in the physical reality, but rather is an abstract concept we came up with. Like the difference between brain and memory - brain is something tangible, a physical object, you can cut open - the memory on the other hand is a concept we use to describe different states of mind, mixed with emotions, basically brain activities. "The mind" is an abstract term like memory which describes mental states and brain activities.
@@wonderlust_ I get what you're saying. However, the "collection" you mentioned that comprises the mind included physical events, as well as mental states that may very well be reducible. We don't seem to have figured that last part out yet. Mental causation being the most fascinating to me. It's that "why am I responding to you physically simply "because" I perceive images?" part. And how am I able to?
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Behaviorism has a negative connotation, but it is more right than wrong. When you take a psychology course the first thing you learn is behaviorism. It has a negative connotation because people want to believe we are more than just puppets on a string. People want to believe we have free will. The reality is this: our genes and internal biological interacts with our environment, we call that “behavior” but the term “culture” can also be used here. Your brain then form a rationalization about your behavior. Our desires conforms to our behavior. Biology > culture > ideology. Searle is right about most things, but when it comes to free will and epiphenomenalism, his brain turns off.
Between biology and culture there must be mental processes, otherwise you are denying the Very experience that are responsible for culture, two people can see a building and the concepts they derive may differ greatly.
I dont even need to talk about all the societal and social problems this view can bring, when ideas seaze to be taken into consideration in favor of superficial dehumanizing utilitarian actions, which are themselves ideas but dont realize that ideas are everything.
thaks
Mind was and still is just a word to refer to human functions that are not visible or physically manifested. Inteligent people decided that because it is gramatically a noun it must be a thing. And go insane over an illusion...
What is that which provokes you to express this view of yours...? It is a mental state - 'wish to express yourself, your view''. This is part of what we call a mind. Mind is not a thing, not a noun, it is probably a process, so a verb. This doesn't mean mind is an illusion - the way you (and Dennett) seem to be saying... It is there but as a process, not as a thing (or noun).
If John Wayne was a philosopher, he would sound like this guy.