The Mark Steel Lectures- Descartes 2/3

[sandman3697]

why does god have to be perfect? He cant just be really really smart?

[RetinendParadox]

Gene Simmons?

[HeadacheTreatment]

Very useful information....! thanks for upload this video...!

[bapyou]

I want an Eze-cup! Sold!

[EpicFork]

Love the Matrix Tie in

[Faboba]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the guy arguing about darts is Al Campbell, aka 'Barry Shitpeas' from Charlie Brookers stuff (which he directs). He's listed on IMDB as a research assistant on the show so it's not unlikely. Just thought people might be bemused.

[Morthund]

@Faboba

yeah ,sim innit though I didn't know he directed any of the 'wipe series

now I hate him because he's such a fucking over acheiver...I sort of prefer the Descartes style

[justnotcricket]

Holy fuck, descarte wrote the matrix!

[StBarthelemy1572]

"GET A PROPER BLOODY JOB...." LMAO

[MrBillcale]

how do i know youtube really exists?!

[regan4000]

very informative; terrible unfunny.

[solaranus]

"4 million! you can only have 501 in the whole game." that's funny

[EclecticSceptic]

"Maybe that is 4 million I don't know" Hahahaha

[azazel637]

i know i didnt think me up because if i did i wouldent and if i dreamed of me i would be better because i would so if i have thought me up to dream of me then i wouldent exist....

[Dominicokey]

Barry fucking Shitpeas

[TheCuriousOrange83]

Barry Shitpeas uses Ezee-Cup.

[michaeluvnikita]

the end is classiccccccccccc so funny

[krrrruptidsoless]

Humans have no way of proving that they think. Just that you heard someone say it first doesn't mean that they thought it. Animals have thought beyond our knowledge and existence yet it can't be proven. They are a product of reality that has existed before the life on this planet this time. Yet if they have only gathered thought would mean they themselves don't think either. And plants come into play as far as storage of thought. Which animals eat. Which would come from minerals an such.

[SelfishNeuron]

Ha ha ha ha...

I love the Cartesian Circle!

:)

[AtrasMateria]

Damn, my comment was very half-assed in explanation...sometimes my pure thought doesn't translate to words as well...just a quick add on... as well as flaws, we could also be the better parts of the whole too. Like little reflective mirrors. Imagine having a person for every aspect of your personality, and each persona would represent an emotion or intention to varying degrees? I don't think the world would be ready for my multiple personalities! Or some of the people Ive met for that matter!

[mzyordanov]

I love the Cartesian circle part :D:D

[r22k10]

Hilarious - well done.

[AtrasMateria]

Well, people can create more perfect versions of themselves by birthing the next generation of children with better dna(when things dont go wrong or off) Then thats the other thing, just because something is better than us or anything else doesnt mean that it contains no flaws itself, which means that people could come out as lesser versions of the gods flaws, or any other life for that matter Up until that pasrt though Ive had a lot of thought like his. I'm always trying to make time to think.

[yadsik]

But you see, this is a 'suppose if' situation, realistically, things do not turn out better off all the time. Also, one has to take into account the matter of change, does this creation of a less perfect item imply that it will always be less perfect? Because eventually the 'better' parents will get old and decay.

I enjoy having thoughts like this too.

[AtrasMateria]

see above comment first.... also, at the point I worte the dna advancement, I had fully been convinced that each generation was obtaining some level closer to oneness, when now i would say, its more about each generation taking information and events of older generations, and putting there own spin on it, so the universe vicariously experiences varying scenarios, emotional states, advancement and a whole slew of positive and negative things vicariously through matter..this is way too generalized

[yadsik]

Not to mention the fact that birth and anything biological has massive amounts of entropy. The individual generation with superior DNA is one in a billion.

[roflolsaurus]

i haz absolutely no doubt that we will find wep0ns of mass destruction. absoluteleh. no doubt. at all

[jennys1983]

Erm ... was he really smoking weed there? It looks pretty damn convincing! :D

Thanks for putting this on youtube, I really enjoy these.

[PiratesVersusNinjas]

well it is legal over there

[MrBobLarner]

@jennys1983 - He's sitting at the bar in Tweede Kamer coffeeshop, sure looks like he's smoking!

[amtoomer]

Thanks for putting this on youtube. Have been looking for full versions of his lectures for a while.