Man, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised given how you run an article website (which I actually checked out due to these vids, not something I can say I've done before) but the fact that with your library of vids each one feels so well crafted without a bit of fat is incredible, honestly glad I found the channel and I'm looking forward to seeing more stuff.
Thank you very much for those kind remarks! And I also thank you for calling my site an "article website," ha. Something along those lines is actually what I prefer to call it myself, though I sometimes still use the ugly word 'blog' if I'm trying to get the idea across to someone quickly.
This movie is unrealistic. It claims one of these mango seed spaceships landed in the UK. If this were the case, a bloke would've turned up immediately to tell the aliens _"oi, you can't park here, mate"._
As someone born and raised in Germany, being fluent in English and French respectively by age 19 and 23, and then studying Japanese in university, I can tell y'all: Learning a new language definitely reshapes your way of thinking in a very profound way. Especially with a language so different from German, English and French in writing, reading and speaking as Japanese...
The only thing that needs to be known to confirm eternal recurrence in regards to the DS trilogy is this question: "Does the formation of and/or the manifestation of, Ash as a metaphysical substance, facilitate the redistribution of the world's matter-energy as it approaches maximum entropy into an eventually homogeneous state?" It can be said that in the Age of Ancients, such a state had already come to be, as that spacetime was already described to be unchanging yet still possessing a distinct form - ignoring the mistranslation in English - that is, much like it is commonly thought in science to be the condition of our universe prior to its beginning. If the answer to this question is no, then there must be a force on par with the those of the Everlasting Dragons sans their descendants, which maintains its own existence despite not being necessarily bound to that of the First Flame's, that causes such "rebirth" of the Ancient Age's conditions. If the answer however is instead "yes", then the world of Dark Souls is in fact locked into this endless repetition, and any attempt to create a worldline apart from the original that the First Flame sustains is for naught. The franchise as a whole seems to lean towards this second possibility moreso than the first; despite the acknowledgement of various individual things and their own manifestations perhaps not being the same in another hypothetical cycle, it is told by Aldia within Drangleic (the ruined kingdom which serves as the setting of the second game) that: "There is no path. Beyond the scope of light, beyond the reach of Dark... ...what could possibly await us? And yet, we seek it, insatiably... Such is our fate." And by the Stone-Humped Hag within the Dreg Heap in the third game, that: ""At the close of the Age of Fire, all lands meet at the end of the earth. Great kingdoms and anaemic townships will be one and the same. The great tide of human enterprise, all for naught. That's why I'm so taken by this grand sight. This must be what it's like to be a god." [can continue if need-be]
I enjoyed hearing about Eternal Recurrence, that one had passed me by. I was so exceptionally bored of linguistic relativity arguments in my philosophy degree that I actually disliked this film because I knew I would have to hear about it more, but you've done a good job here. I find that linguistic relativity's blind acceptance by most interlocutors is used as a justification for philosophical impotence. 'we don't know we're right about anything because it may be that what we know is impacted by the form of our language'. You use the term loosely to talk about the interesting elements of the film without running into this backalley, which I super appreciate. (I could have written this more clearly but I'm having a weird evening and I'm enjoying florid language I usually avoid)
Yes, strictly speaking, this video does not really discuss linguistic relativity itself. As is arguably the case in the film, it just introduces it as a shorthand justification for the odd relationship with time that the heptapods grant to the character.
As someone who deals with social anxiety. It is, in a way, a sort of destructive circular thinking. I can already see the horrible future of a given social interaction, and with that future in mind, I go into it and make it real, by my own volition.
Well, I have never played any of the Nier games. But from what I've heard, it sounds like Automata explicitly references various philosophers, so if/when I do play it someday, there's a good chance that I'll have something to say about it.
If you’re going to make a video about eternal recurrence and linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf) in the style of a formal critique, you need to add new points. This is the first video I’ve seen of yours, and I’m flabbergasted by your academic fluency, but I already went into this knowing about eternal recurrence, so could you say something in a more entertaining way? And if you’re trying to reach out to a wider audience, dumb it down, because a lot of the words here, “geopolitically”, “extra-temporal”, need their own explanations. You can’t just put hand-wavy words in, especially if you’re going for formal critique. The only thing really carrying this video is the way you talk, but I’d get a more professional dude somewhere else just on RU-vid, yet I know you take a more educated perspective. Who’s your audience, even? I know I’m in a niche of a niche of a niche here.
The quantum state combinations are fixed, given enough distance we would see the same things repeating over and over again, peopIe, pIanets, gaIaxies, it means that given enough time, the same wouId happen
@@TheGemsbok That's true, but the combination stiII is finite, it means that at one point, when the number of events or objects is high enough there can't be but repetition
The foundation being probability means that, even among finite options, precise repetitions or even specific occurrences are not guaranteed. It calls to mind the opening of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead---there is nothing strictly contrary to logic about a fair coin coming up tails once, then heads on every flip from then on.
@@TheGemsbok I think you may find this video of numberophiIe on the topic very interesting ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8GEebx72-qs.html
I suspect you may be joking, but just in case: I always try to pronounce a person's name how they themselves would pronounce it (or as close as I can get with my accent).
I am guessing that you made that comment because you are familiar with the pronunciation of the word 'gemsbok' in Afrikaans, although the origin of the word (before Afrikaans and Dutch) is German. At any rate, the word 'gemsbok' is now also a word in the English language, where it is pronounced with a hard 'g' sound, like that found in the words 'guy' and 'gap.' You can confirm this by listening to the pronunciation sample for the word in an English dictionary: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gemsbok
@@nathansims8809 No worries at all! My earlier response in this chain is a copy-paste response that I use whenever someone mentions the pronunciation of the channel name. It is likely phrased more combative than it needs to be.
Yes, that is a common formula in Zarathustra. Arguably, in the way that Nietzsche uses words like 'goal' and 'ideal,' no one can truly cross the bridge. If they did, they may be something other than a human being. It's worth pointing out that Nietzsche is likely playing with religious language when he puts it like that, purposefully perverting a description of humans being poised between 'the apes and the angels.' A primary point of the concept is simply to alter the focus of human endeavors (in Nietzsche's terms) toward the actionable, grounded, immediate, and this-worldly---and away from the impotent, spiritual, remote, and other-worldly. That is, Nietzsche feels that humanity already has an unattainable goal, but it is one that directs them away from the earth, away from life, away from themselves. It is that goal that the overman may replace, and those directives which it may henceforth discard.
