Guarantee he had a few girls in his classes looking at him with starry eyes just like in those 80s movies. 😂 e. g. Indiana Jones ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-09dmQjTqFtI.html
A series of essential questions are asked at 19:14 regarding the idea that God is imprinted on us from the outside: " Could [God] come from your imagination? But how so? How can you imagine something you've never experienced?" But we do imagine things never experienced before. I've never fallen off a cliff, but I seem to experience that every week. When I was a kid, I had a lucid dream that I was Superman and was flying through the air. In another, I was on the moon, enjoying the buoyancy. Are such fake experiences imprinted on me by the creator? Not sure what to make of it
I had the same doubt at that point. Imagination, surely, is the process of thinking about things you've not experienced. Remembering is thinking about things that you have. The question above makes more sense as "how can you remember something you've not experienced?" I can imagine anything that is gifted into 'the show between my ears', and maybe that is the point at which determinism ceases to have control of our thoughts. If the thought is original, how can it have been experienced? A stimulating lecture, thanks Darren.
he replied to this kind of objection at the beginning of his meditations in preface section. lemme know what u still think after reading. just interesting to me
The Matrix is heavily inspired by the philosophical tradition. Some of the characters are even named after philosophers ! Wachowski are geniuses in many aspects
"Maybe you dreamed you had breakfast." Chuang Tzu was dealing with this 400 years before Christ when he asked "Did I dream I was a butterfly? Or am I a butterfly dreaming I am a man?" We have neglected the Far Eastern philosophical tradition for too long.
God is prior to, and created existence, therefore God, the transcendent, does not exist, though God is real for you, when you cease to exist psychologically also.
Dr. Staloff’s intelligence and genuine charisma is of such purity it forces even a snarky cynic like yours truly to NOT laugh my ass off at literally everything else about him. Kudos to you. Shine on you crazy diamond. I hope you you’re still a proud, erudite ponytailman. I love your lectures and have learned much from them.
16:12 links a major reason i fear neurology advancing too far. if this were to be taken away, if the confirmation that anything existed, even in a sense that true Cartesianism could argue is false, was no longer possible, what would become of us?
Then you abandon Foundationalism (the philosophical position that you need a certain foundation of non-inferential knowledge to have any justified belief) and adopt a more malleable and modern theory of Truth (like Coherence theory or Rorty's Pragmatism)
If you listen to Staloff he says that we shouldn't take anything at face value. Not that we should reject all statements. We need to prove them. Ultimately we all start with the premise "I am". Everything else flows out of that.