Reading Wittgenstein (Language, Thought, & Brain)

[warhols25]

In contrary to the sparsity of terms Wittgenstein commended us to use in our either daily or scientific discourses, the contemporary world is the exact opposite of what he was trying to tell us. My comment hereby is one such brittle example. :)

[fauyd]

I hope you get to be a partner soon so we can see some 11 minute plus videos.

[zarkoff45]

Today we actually have brain scans, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and fMRI, that can watch where thoughts are happening in the brain.

The metaphor is now real.

[openmindset]

@zarkoff45 the fact that the locality were the thoughts are produced does not mean that the thoughts ARE there. It would be like finding the locality in the brain that produces movements of the arms and saying that the movements of the arms ARE in that locality of the brain. Finding the active location of the brain when someone is happy means that happines IS there? this is taking literally a metaphor." the water is in the glass" is only a metaphor for the  "the thought is the brain".

[SomewhatStaid]

@zarkoff45 And if those fMRI junkies knew their Wittgenstein well enough, they'd realize they're chasing linguistic phantoms in most of their studies. Not to discourage the research itself, but the neuroscientific community ought to be embarrassed at the way its most prominent researchers commit continuous non sequiturs and backwards directions of evidentiary fit when they interpret their results.

[zarkoff45]

@SomewhatStaid

Wittgenstein would apparently think that Searle's Chinese Room could be as conscious as you are.

[vbfl920]

Long hot summer nights!!!

[Professoranton]

Jimi indeed!

[vbfl920]

Awesome! Yeah I went through a HUGE Jimi phase.

Still probably one of the biggest influences on me guitar wise.

[jogayot]

kids, don't do this at home! brain matters are shy.

[allymetoo]

Anton, this is great, this is very usefull

[KosmicCitizen]

Good stuff. I'm sure I speak for many others when I express my appreciation for your time and interest in making these videos.

[Professoranton]

Thank you.