your ego is already virtual

[cristiflorin]

Have you red G. H. Mead - Mind, Self and society? If not, I recommend it..

[MorbidSickPervertor]

why do u keep looking around?? lol u look all paranoid

[1971SuperLead]

The body is not real. We are mind.

[SeracRavel]

In this video, you look a bit like my favorite philosopher (Charlie Sheen).

[cyaard]

dude, I came across one of your videos like a year ago and was impressed. I came across this video not recognizing you and once again your thoughts came through clearly and I felt drawn to continue watching. Then I saw it was you from before. Thank you very much for posting this!!! So refreshing to see someone younger than me who actually THINKS

[artsyone90]

great vid, peace love happiness

[cannibusmannibus]

psychedelics seperate your soul from your ego. The soul is part of a collective concipousness WITHOUT perspective, so you can perceive everything aws it is. The deepest things that humanity tries to figure out (like this) cant be because we are speculating from our ego's perspective, you have to remove this filter to understand what and why and how it is all and it is supposed to be

[cannibusmannibus]

When you have this realization, and come back to the world, you see through all the bullshit the world has become and its deppressing, because 99.9% of the people in this world base themselves soley on their egos and live FAKE lives, focusing their lifetime of given energy on non-important things like television, cars, entertainment, jobs ect.

[cannibusmannibus]

if everyone redirected the energy they were given to helping others and being apart of everything we natuarlly exist with, enlightenment and peace would be achieved on a world scale.

[sashae]

How much bud do you smoke! haha

[sirlovemehard]

Clearly to many psychoactive substances... Am I right or wrong? Some of your subjects are well thought, though most could not be argued without some sort of altered state... BE CAREFUL !!!

[ShiftingWayward]

The world where you can do anything I think is the one without our bodies. The act of "being" to me is a deliberate action taken by consciousness to be able to experience things without knowing everything else. Seeing in a specific point of view. Having and ego is just a way to organize those experience to bring meaning.

[Toyman6000]

I think you need to get Laid more often...

[KilshawInt]

I am go as a sim, my ego is a virtual holon

[alifeofarcticsounds]

maybe an ego is what happens when our super advanced bodies tap into an abstract realm called consciousness, but in a rudimentary way.

[gravitymindofgod]

Watching You In Multiple Timelines and Multiple respiration / reflection of Yourselves in Different Timelines or Dimensions. Each Probability Or Geometry Of Time Could Be Truncated within any Decision You Make. Your perception or Field of Conscious, is Ever Expanding and requires Unifying Dualities. This Is The Dissolution Of Ego, With Accentuation of Probability for A Higher Perception... Excellent Work. Thank You

[krzysiek26]

Saying "we are our bodies" you contradict Kant's philosophy We are bodies, flesh, elements, anything you wish just name it. We're Kant, that's why:)

1.You might be virtual if you wish, but it is still "you" for ME

2.You might like Jean-Paul Sartre on why "you" don't know a real "me" because you know only my Past, my history.

3. There are people who limit the conflict-ness in themselves reasonably.

4. Still, there will be the conflict between you and the material world. And we're back to Plato:)

[Sinistersmile666]

How judgemental are you?

[RaeofSunder]

So if manifestation was clear- was concise and scientific in that the linear connection between a want and a have is made easily for the subject, we feel there would be no point to life because it seems that searching or seeking is what we are all about. But like if we were to be crawling beings we think "well why the hell would I want to walk around - it looks so silly and I get a great workout this way" When suddenly, on our feet our hands are free to explore new realms?

[elxtranjero]

lol this might sound funny....

but if someone could have everything he wanted just by thinking it. Then he wished to be an animal, a horse for example or a fly, when he changes into a horse will he desire to do stuff like humans, like having a tea or be rich? if the horse cannot think like a human would he ever turn back to a human????

[Solablueangel]

We are indeed our body, but that does NOT equate with the idea that consciousness *only* exists because of our body. One can't *KNOW* that consciousness is only experienced because one "has' or 'is' a material *body*, so we should not accept it as a belief. What I mean is, the conclusion that consciousness doesn't exist without a body is potentially INCORRECT in that it is NOT PROVEN. That I am conscious and alive as a body does NOT prove that my consciousness is dependent on my body....

[mikeweckstein]

Dude, we gotta unite, make youtube philosophy a channel lol. this video in particular about an ego is very good. I like your ideas. I want to start uploading videos talking about crazy stuff I've been thinking. You seem like you got your eyes opened from somewhere, like about the world. I know I realized how we can't worry about this pointless shit in front of us, and need to look inside, not outside. Like deep inside our minds, and try to connect the dots. Interesting stuff, life is.

[part2themovie]

the point was its not your mind, you're somewhere else. it's easier to understand if you play video games. especially expansive online games.

what i don't understand is whether 'souls' are created here and that is the purpose of life, growing souls or whether we come into bodies and the purpose is just toe experience it.

i really have this feeling that where im really from 'things' would kill just to experience life like we do.

[mikeweckstein]

true, yea, I'd rather sit outside and look up at the sky then play video games. but yea, I agree. We're fortunate to have greedy corporate bastards take up natural resources to build things like this computer you're staring at. I guess I exist because I'm going to sleep and have cool things happen to me lol. k enjoy the world. I like it a lot, and I know my comment is 500x random. Poolside chickens flying to disney world for a milkshake on a tuesday!

[part2themovie]

every single useful invention wasn't created for profit. you're just espousing capitalist rhetoric, the real potential of computers is hindered by useless competition, and that goes for about every other scientific venture that we're undertaking.

i spend a lot of time looking at the sky too. its actually the theme for my website. you sound like some pretentious shit to me. i hope im wrong.

[ZeceFackler]

You are a grate man but most people are not going to get what your truly talking about in most your videos but I can say you ARE making a impact on everyone that watches your videos! keep it up.

[GlennosMennos]

I'm not trying to be a prick but I've gotta say your videos are fucking pretentious and balls deep in boredom. If you want to get your message out there that's fine but please spare us the self-glorification. All that aside, you do make some interesting points and it's good to know that people still think about what is important (I try to) but yeah, you should zoom out every now and again and enjoy life for whatever you think it is and stop detering people from enlightenment.

[SolaufeinSA]

why is it that whenever anyone talks about things outside the bubble of our minuscule everyday cultural reality it is pretentious?

you say you're not trying to be a prick, but you failed

[ZeceFackler]

I would like to know how his videos deter people from enlightenment.

[KATTANATEMA]

i dont get it. why so many negative comments. why can't he be a philosopher? what is it that defines a the philosopher or the GREAT thinker? you don't even know, i dont know. nobody knows. so why dont you shut the fuck up and stop being so judgemental. he is actually brave to speak his mind or other people's whatever. stop categorizing everything. stop comparing everything to the archetype of ''philosophy''. most of it is just Plain linguistic bullshit anyway

[N473W4J4]

I think you should find the right girl procreate and continue the life process.

[dacci123]

By UCF do you mean university of Central Florida?

[JamesTheTank]

We do spend a lot of energy investing in how we are virtually defined. TED'sters will comment of having 300,000 google match's, MySpace is perhaps the ultimate example, or YouTube. Our world feed's this perception and we delight in it. I would like to be hit one when searched on google.

You comment on "one body" but I don't see any talks on "galactic contiousness". Coincides well with a Brahman concept- could be fun, right up your alley.

[thegreenmachine7]

lol youre jsut some 23 yearold loser who smokes to much weed and thinks hes a philosopher

[dacci123]

your just a big JERK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlazzingSun]

Ego I for me defines this time & space...

It pinpoints this demention tied of course to the senses that give texture to the expirence....

When I get beyond it I find myself everywhere & everything...

yet nothing But all.

Peace.....

[DebEspace]

the key is to not be over taken by your ego, instead strive to be your true innerself, the ego is trying to fuck things up by contolling your emotions, when you can see your ego and laugh rather than act you are then not being over taken by what people say because your not letting your ego control you.

[MaXZioN1]

honestly what i think the 'digital' representation of what oneself might be could possibly be..... the perfectness of ones soul and the purity of it once it is created by god, then perhaps it has a vision of being on earth with the most qualified parents, and within a maybe even in a 4th dimensional sense, the energy of ones eyes reflected upon the mirror and the beauty was created to the most suitable sense of comfortably being to look at whilst being the spiritual aura of within.....

[micahisprettycoo]

MaXZion, you need to wake up and smell the coffee. if your gonna state an opinion at least back it up with some scientific or logical evidence.

[LookAS2282]

Or I should say what do I do to manifest myself? is the question everyone should be asking...

[LookAS2282]

I am interested in those, because your words, thoughts and inner world will not manifest to others, unless you take an action, and that is what we are here for. To do exactly, what our SELF hints (by feelings, guesses, 6th sense, call it whatever you want) us to manifest ourselves. Life is a game, play, music piece with all the ugly and beautiful together. What do you DO to manifest your values, believes, hopes???

[LookAS2282]

Sorry, there was a full response that didn't get posted... I wake up every morning with this reality to deal. It is very real and as time of the day goes by, my action, or inaction has consequences. So one thing I know about my being is question of what do I do (create) with the time that is given to me. To me, the point is in values that we have as humans, like gratitude and most of all love, and expression of these in our actions. Why are we conditioned by society? Why do we DO what we do.

[LookAS2282]

I am defined by what I do, because if I am dead, I don't have a chance to do it anymore (at least from perspective of me living now)...

[born2question]

If you analyze this far enough you do reach a 'nihilistic' perspective.

But that's just another way of realizing that meaning comes from the observer; and not the observed.

Yeah from an external objective perspective everything is meaningless. I don't care though; because I'm NOT an objective perspective. It's from my subjective perspective that I find meaning.

That's why it's not just objective science which is important but also art, and communication.

[seigneurvoland666]

yea

[born2question]

The Brain simulates consciousness. It's simulating a lot of other models as well, which are not conscious.

That's the counterintuitive thing. Because we are very caught up in the idea that what goes on in our heads IS conscious.

Actually it's not. The conscious part is only one of the programs running. It's a program which came about for the purpose of communication - and planning.

[roravi]

what is the difference between the body-mind I and the soul I

[bbkink2]

best video i've seen... i may be one of those who plans a lot!

[turser222]

INTERESTING

[aubekin]

Perheaps this is why we so rarely remember dreams. Our thoughts become "real" to us in them when we think of them, and so, we lose consciousness of ourselves and everything and cease to exist - till the body wakes up.

[ChromeLocust]

I agree with you - virtual reality would mean suicide. meaning means being and v.v.

[DLGenesis]

My take on this.

The SELF/I is the way you percieve self/others.

It spawns from and for awareness of selfs/others good/bad perceptions/reactions of/to selfs/others.

ultimately the self is the EGOs defensive construct that is learned/manipulated throughout lifetime for its own benefit/preservation.

The self is always there but the way it percieves its self is what changes the way it percieves itself.....

[whatoneknows]

If we agree that the ego is illusory.

And that the body(physical existence) is as well.

Then the origin of the ego IS the origin of physical existence, as both are delusions brought on by the perception of an illusion.

We know matter IS energy. We know Energy (as a particle) is the expression/manifestation of the infinite potential energy that IS SPACE.

Through the observer affect of Double Slit exp. we learned the role of consciousness within creation. Space = Consciousness Man-I-fest.

[walicho1]

Big hugs!!!, from Cordoba, Argentina.

So Clear, So Important.

[translinguistic]

I think you have a good perspective, and are very well read. But i think that you should try and psychedelically inform yourself so you can experiencially know what you are talking about. Then you can apply it to your own life and not worry about responding to retards on youtube. After a good shamanic mushroom trip, you might altogether stop posting videos and really embody what you are speaking of insead of speaking it. But you do have a good perspective.

[Abno6]

Why do you need a mushroom trip for that?

[aubekin]

Why do we have to have a free will? Wouldn't it be enough to have an experience of free will?

[Abno6]

Did you ever think that maybe we don't have free will? Our thoughts and actions are manipulated by our environment and controlled by that which is manipulated; the brain and body? Or maybe we've ALWAYS had free will, and nothing else, but we were deceived in clouds of confusion?

[Youngl3lood]

Well we would have our common since and our conscience, Brain/sound mind, with the Capacity to store any such information with such free will, except those who couldn't hear and those who couldn't see.

[aubekin]

vir·tu·al (vûrch-l)

adj.

1. Existing or resulting in essence or effect though not in actual fact, form, or name: the virtual extinction of the buffalo.

2. Existing in the mind, especially as a product of the imagination. Used in literary criticism of a text.

3. Computer Science Created, simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network: virtual

[adventuresineurope]

"The thinker and the thought" There is no thinker there is only conditioned thinking.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

[Abno6]

Is that a fact? If so, why?

[batfly]

The idea of at will manifestation is an interesting one.

It is obvious to me what I would do if I were both omniscient and omnipotent...

I would expand my consciousness to exist as an infinite number of consciousnesses.

They would coexists as if they are apparently separate and different.

In addition, I would allow the means for my consciousnesses to remember \ reconnect as a singularity.

[Abno6]

Dude you must be joking around. You're not original! That's what God did! xD

[NewtonParadox]

hay i am going to publish a new theory in physics .. which can revolutionize understanding god???..ok tell me what is meaning of time!!

[NewtonParadox]

knowing self is knowing knowledge ?!?!?

[Magnulus76]

Read some Madyameka or Yogacara stuff- Nagarjuna's Middle Way. Ultimately, he says, all logical systems are empty, there are points they run into big problems that have to be explained away undelicately. Ultimately, even science is empty of meaning, since it is based on logic, and this logic is as empty as any other logical system. By chance, do you meditate at all? Your head seems jumbled with logic, when there is a world out there, and within you, to be experienced.

[mgooin]

interesting... but I think its time turn our attention to the serious situation with the environment and global warming and take a break from wanking and ttruwe nature of reality

get out of the dorm room and lets take some action!

[TheElectricM0NK]

There is no time to turn our attention to the serious situation with the environment and global warming.

Do not take a break of reality about your self, within your room. Spend time on your self.

[Spellcastproductions]

wow dude your vids...kik bottom:)

i really like the way you think.

keep up the kewl vids

peace

[ESP1EMG]

its all in taoism

[EVM3point0]

everything is everything nothing is nothing

[electrokat26]

what your talking about is cosmic consciousness all 5 senses together we could be anything do anything know anything it's everything we will all become .one. our bodies are nothing just everything to us... you should look up some of david wilcocks videos he's very interesting. you'll have a better grasp and mindframe when you look at others perspective of our being. :)

[teamhumanity]

There was never an ego, just a flow of consciousness thinking there is one.

[lasercat10cc]

pt4 created and distroyed in the same moment if clocks stop at the speed of light. Do you see what i mean or am i the only one, the only one? this is not just mad talk it is real and mind blowingly proveable to an extent as are all things only provable to an extent.

[lasercat10cc]

pt3 as thousands of miles difference if the boat continues on it different course. likewise our lifes based on our intentions which i surgest come from the quantum would can make a massive difference to our lifes years down the line. Its a bit like the idea that we are the result of our suroundings vs bilolgy. I prepose it is a mixture of our

1.suroundings 2.biology 3.free will or our intentions and unique 4.space/time that we inhabit. All of this is one for example a photons life is

[lasercat10cc]

Pt2 likewise know that all that surrounds you is linked to you your existance and it with yours. When the fire licks the logs it is also the pleasure you experience from the tang of citrus fruits on your toung. there is a deeper controle in the relm of consciouness that has a far weaker role than many other things in the macro world that are mainly predetermined however the deeper consciousness act like a small fine tuning. For example if a boat is just a little off course this translates

[lasercat10cc]

Pt1 if you were to make two replicas of yourself would each one be you? NO! Why because everything that surounds us makes what we are. For example in an old black and white film from the 1940's a file licks the logs the smoke goes up the chimniy and causes a fly to go off in a different direction 127 miles away two days later that same fly hits a motor bike rider in the eye causing to never have met my mother and therefore i am bourn becaue my mother gets to meet my dad.

[davidoskates]

Great video! A bit more layered than some of your others. Even after 50 years "the medium is still the message."

My virtual ego totally agrees with yours in this. I would add that the sensory systems all function by comparing contrasting input; ie, we perceive differences, not sameness. The eye sees edges and contrasting wavelengths of light. In a visual field with no "friction," no perception registers. This is also true for touch. No friction, no feeling. I find this true metaphysically, too.

[henryintelligence]

You can find another theorization of virtual/actual in Deleuze's ontology. Check out "Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy" on Wikipedia. There's a succinct generalization of Deleuze's theory in this regard.

[redliterocket4]

I read the wiki page. People have been telling me I need to read Gilles Deleuze for months now. He seems to be process oriented, so I probably will enjoy his perspective very much. Thanks for the suggestion.

[QuantumPamm]

i've watched a few of your videos, they are interesting, i am a deep believer that our conciousness is our "soul" or even "god", or atleast he lies in there.....i also love quantum mechanics because it will soon tell us what it's all about.....anyways, my question is.....what are your beliefes?...are you religiuos?, a bhuddist?.what are you?, i still don't understand what exactly you believe in.......you got tons of videos but dont have time to watch em all since maybe you say it in one of them.

[henryintelligence]

I agree with what you say. However, the virtual, viewed with a postmodern, more playful attitude, can be immensely liberating/demythologizing. It denies the existence of a totalizing core/center/truth, and shows us that the depth is in the surface, in the representations without referents, such as the rampant dissemination of visual images which is creating instead of representing reality.

[henryintelligence]

This is what Jean Boudrllard terms "hyper-reality", a reality with no actuality to refer to. All is simulacrum. TV news is full of lyper-realities of this kind. Boudrillard goes as far as claiming that the Gulf War never "actually" took place. Yet, it is creative and rejuvenating rather than nihilistic, for it allows boundless plays.

[henryintelligence]

Sorry for the typo, it should be Jean Baudrillard. I find his "Simulacra and Simulation" captivating.

[StevenErnest]

The emerging revolutionary technologies may divide humanity into separate groups: Those who want to live in VR, and those who don't. Those who will want brain enhancement (chip implants, etc.), and those who don't. Those who want artificial organs, and those who don't. And the new generations of young people who are open to this tech, may look down on the previous generations as Neanderthals.

[matrixcmitech]

your video is an optional illusion... it looks like you are driving a car at night... tho the sound of chirping crickets gives it away. and if we don't like crickets we can always edit the sounds of cars outside by a window. in & out of the virtual world like a pro. good show"]

[TellUaboutitt]

Gary gives a Star Trec episode to look at as a possibility, what he fails to relies is that the beings with this power were dying from just the reason you give here. They had used up all of the possibilities in their own minds and needed other minds memories to stay alive.

[armando3210]

well done. i liked the format.

[minomeshank]

so you're saying that you're also addicted to conflict but at the moment you're happy for that to be the case?

life is conflict & not to be in conflict is not to be alive?

[Canteatpancakes]

Hey Matt,

I own and love Being No One.

I do not think your ideas are incompatible with Metzinger's.

Being No One simply means to be Many.

Or a continuing process, like you said.

You might enjoy Antonio Damasio as well, if you haven't read any of his work already.

Fun video, 5* for touching on a great topic. :)

[DouglasUrantia]

I believe the 'self' can say "I have a body". Just like the self can say I have a car to drive around in.

The body is only an automatic acting physical device so that the self can experience life on this planet.

The physical body runs all by itself. I eat food and it is turned into skin and fingernails without my having to think about it.

[commanderbutthole]

Is pain and struggle the only way of learn and live a fulfilling life? If you were bedridden and suffered pain every waking moment, would you consider that a profound learning experience? We experience pain because it's essential to our bodily survival. If we didn't suffer and feel pain we wouldn't learn from situations that could potentially kill us. Creating

[commanderbutthole]

a virtual world wouldn't be so bad in my opinion. You eliminate real suffering. Imagine that up to now you've been living in this virtual world. All that you've learned has been the result of a program that has created real feelings and experiences that has enabled you to grow and learn from. It's possible. Some day, we'll create computers capable of creating virtual life.

[cosmanthony21]

Im under the idea that pain is an excellent barometer to use as a beacon for that eventuality. What I mean is that pain gives us the ability to know where to go, where not to be. Perhaps the pain of feeling rejected is only a creation of my mind, but also a semi-reality in -this- micro-world.

[commanderbutthole]

True, if I stub my toe and it causes me pain then I'll be more careful about where I step. But that's only because we're stuck in this body that feels pain. Is pain good? Yes and no... it helps us survive in this material world but prolonged pain is suffering. I don't think there's anything good about suffering besides the fact that it helps us strive to eliminate it from our lives.

[commanderbutthole]

I'm not saying virtual reality is the solution to everything wrong with humanity. It is one solution but I don't feel it's the ultimate solution. I think the ideal situation for humanity would be is if we can truly overcome our innate animalistic behaviors and be more compassionate towards one another and achieve a sustainable balance with the natural world instead of creating a artificial virtual reality that achieves the solution through conscious design.

[IChoseTheRedPill]

interesting shhtuff... "then it is an illusion which is no one's illusion..." "then it is true that it is no one's illusion..." thanks for sharing... Peace2U

[zezt]

...ahaha cool vid.

Yeah, its like someone tellin you the end of a film. What a bummer. or exactly whats gonna happen in a drama before you see it. making it all flat.

I know people will watch films more than once, But the first time's always the best, WHEN it surprises you, and you experience...

[demrings]

Are you dismissing Metzingers idea or not? If you are, your argument seems to me superficial, in that you're simply redefining (relocating the reference of the term) 'the self' in such a way that it retains some kind of ontological status. How is this significantly incompatible with Metzingers analysis? It seems to me that it expands it rather than limits it.

As you know, Im very interested in this topic. Im glad youve seen Metzinger, and I'd love to hear you elaborate on your view on his idea.

[redliterocket4]

The self that says "I have a body" is a fiction. That self that IS the body is not. This embodied self is not like the ego in the sense that it is open to the world, it is connected to others, it is affected, etc. Life is not virtual if you get over the idea that your ego is just another thought.

[DouglasUrantia]

The reason for the 'body' is so that we can live on this planet and have consciousness and experience our life and it's many opportunities. Life is a gift. We either use it wisely or we throw it away. We have 'free will' which is also a gift.

[demrings]

(1/2) How can a self *be* the body? I don't understand that.

I do of course agree that the living body is real, but I do not believe we have any experience of it as it is in itself. We only have virtual approximations of it, or rather, as is perhaps the case with you, projected images from sources like the phenomenon of emotions, which are also virtual.

This is not denying reality, it is only denying *access* to reality.

[redliterocket4]

The body is an experiential being. That is what qualifies it as a body, rather than, say, a pile of mulch or a rock. So what is experienced is always the body. We do not need to gain access to the body because that linguistic invention we call the "I" never existed to separate us from it to begin with. Access to the body is limited only to the extent that we remain bewitched by our language, with all its talk of subjects acting on objects.

[demrings]

Recommendation for you: A radio program on the neuroscience of out of body experiences: abc . net . au / rn / allinthemind / stories / 2008 / 2283388 . htm

(Pardon the spaces. Youtube didn't seem to accept the url without something like it.)

[demrings]

(2/2) To be explicit about what mistake I suspect you're committing: I think you're conceiving of the experience of emotions as a window into the supposed internality of the 'self that is the body'.

Supposing I'm right, which you'll probably tell me I'm not: How can you back up the claim that we have a level of internality that is true and non-virtual, and even that we have a way of accessing this ontological plane of experience? Is this an argument from emotion?

[redliterocket4]

I would say intersubjectivity is the window. Our ability to share interiority with other bodies (human or not) is the reason we have access to something more than a phenomenal self model. Of course I cannot prove to you that this is the case by way of these words, as it is an experientially-based claim, not a linguistic one. I am saying that you can share states of (non-egoic) consciousness with other bodies, so you would have to test that out for yourself if you want proof.

[demrings]

I agree with this: We can share interiority with other bodies. The clearest example of this is the precision with which we can communicate mathematical forms. I think the communicability of symbolic forms, emotional content etc are fields continuous with that of mathematics. In other words, I explain communicability in terms of the virtuality of mind.

How communicability is a window into the 'self that is the body', I don't understand. But perhaps you're not talking about that kind of window.

[redliterocket4]

We are getting closer to understanding each other, but the intersubjectivity I am talking about is more than the exchange of symbols. The meaning of any particular symbol is not contained in the symbol, but arises out of the shared intention of the bodies that interpret it

[demrings]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by 'the shared intention of the body that interprets'?

I agree with you that meaning is not in the symbol itself, but don't understand what you mean when you talk about the intention of the body. Myself, I explain meaning in terms of the relation between received symbols and the receiving system of thought (which is a process, or 'computation'). And it is because we, as virtual minds, are constructed in similar ways, that we have the ability to share meanings.

[bbugmenott]

Live is what happens while you're making other plans :)

[MariborchanX]

I saw Metzinger last month, and I just want to add that the 'subject' Metzinger says does not exist is not the same as the 'subject' in Lacan or Žižek and his research doesn't really apply to that theory.

[tinaslynn]

Something that this one has learned is that if it is changing, shifting or can be altered in any way.. it is not real.. think about that.. the only aspect of life that is unchanging is consciousness itself.. what we truly are :)

[iulian28ti]

Virtual, Artificial, Natural are still the same thing. Everything is made of matter/energy.

Every logical arrangement of matter, energy, process or condition has a function.

Oh, one more thing, the meaning of life is to love. Philosophy and discovery are just a path to understanding that.

[ThaRollingTube]

there is no meaning to life other than choosing what you want to perceive..

you have love and you have hate..both extremes of the duality that you and i face every moment of our reality

[tyrbolo]

well I watched Metzinger and he has a lot that

makes sense. I'd want to make sure I stripped

off the overburden of ancient and current

naive ideas from what he says as conclusions though, it's way too easy to fall back into

the same old traps in philosophy.

[HaleyMary]

Thought provoking video. I would agree. It's like the I that thinks is essentially in the brain, at least as far as science knows, so without the I being conscious in the brain, each person would cease to exist and be alive. Hope that made sense.

[Fatheadious]

Interesting video. I think I get it. The world we experience is just a creation of our mind based upon what limited sensory input it has. I think. Our reality is limited to what we can experience, despite the fact that there is a lot going on in reality which we are unable to sense. Does this make sense? grrr.

[AdityaK96]

perfectly put my friend...keep it up your acting on a level of higher consciousness and i applaud you for being an "Outsider".....thats just a term thats used in the book "The Outsider" by Colin Wilson for a person who "thinks to deep" but cant help it....you should read it i think you would like it

[trigunner87]

i think you're right, a world with no outside influence is not a world at all. its more like a dream than anything else, even then though dream are effected by the outside world. the novelty would quickly wear off.