And I'm trying to suggest that she is saying bullshit. Very simple. If you wan't me to elaborate further I will but not if you're someones footsoldier. I don't waste my time on those kind of people.
@Bulloxe4 Are you sure you don't mean neuroscientist? If not: I'd like to know what a neural scientist is. Never heard of it (English is not my native language btw).
She is not making any scientific claims, so I don't know how exactly you can qualify her talk as "bullshit". She just tells about some thougts she has about how the brain works.
Saying "you're obviously no neural scientist" (or "bullshit") without further explanation is not really an argument, is it?
It's not an argument because I wasn't making an argument I was expressing a sentiment. I feel that this girl is taking a subject which is much bigger then she can handle and she's making points which are either oversimplified or just wrong.
She just tells about some thougts she has about how the brain works.
-> and that is useless and stupid
And btw, english is not my native language also, and neuroscientist and neural scientist are the same thing. I heard it both ways.
My argument is that her point is useless. Her categorisation of the brain on a logical and primitive part falls apart as soon as you try to apply it to any example of brain activity. With the exception of pure logical activity and pure emotion you just can't put your brain process in one of these categories.
@Bulloxe4 Ok, thanks for taking the time to explain. You may be right about the brain; I myself am not a scientist.
I don't completely agree with you though, about her 'rambling' being useless and stupid. Thinking and sharing your thoughts is never useless imho. But I guess that's just a matter of taste :-)
@LanteanKnight As nice as that sounds it's mostly garbage. We have a tool that is as far as we know as objective as something can possibly be: it's called mathematics. If you want to deal with any complex problem forget about common sense and try to use mathematical logic instead. It is especially good at simplifying questions regarding natural phenomena and within philosophy its far more accurately predictive and useful than any supernaturalistic non-explanation, cop-out and/or fallacy.
We can never view anything objectively because we are always bound to our senses to perceive reality. Even using scientific devices we still have to collect the information through our senses.
The reason we can't even think objectively using our ratio is because it has been shaped throughout our lives through our senses. This way the 'subjective' view of the outside world becomes objective to us in our mind.
I am an atheist and I generally like your videos, but you made really some bold assertions very similar to the ones religion does.
I mean what is with the "subjective view being the emotional brain and objective view is the logical brain" ... that is essentially subjective, at best.
And then you made some bold assertions about human history ...
@edisonnica I'm sorry to have to jump aboard here too, but you're right. I like the FactsvsReligion videos, but you should be more specific with logical brain, emotional brain etc. It's not that I don't get it, but in these videos you're not just adressing people who are in the field of science or have an atheist world view, and especially those who have no clue, love to use terminology they don't understand. you might just give aid to them by doing that.
I am an atheist and I generally like your videos, but you made really some bold assertions very similar to the ones religion does.
I mean what is with the "subjective view being the emotional brain and objective view is the logical brain" ... that is essentially subjective, at best.
And then you made some bold assertions about human history ...
I have a question. When you were tripping on a mushrooom and had a near to near death experience, why were you so afraid of dying ? It is ironic because I thought that the last thing that an athesis would be afraid of is dying, because there is nothing else; there is no haven or hell. Why are athesis so afraid of dying? I'm not a religious person but a religious person could run with that.
@121902armando "Why are atheists so afraid of dying." Whether theist of atheist, people are inherently afraid of death and will always be. A theistic belief, or lack there of, does nothing to mititgate this fact.
@121902armando No, because the putting all off your effort into not dying is one of the most ancient instics in humans as well as in more primitive animals. It's just Evolution kicking in. That's why you can't choke yourself to death with your own hands. Otherwise even depressed people would. But that's when your instincts kick in. Question solved.
Yes, science is working on curing death. And in the future they will most probably succeed. Shit, it's a shame we weren't born 500 or 1000 years later or something. The people who live then will be so much better off than us.
Close to cure death? We certainlly are not, and I hope we never will. When we confront death we are the most honest beings we can ever be. Death is so much natural and important as life.
I wasn't aware that we had the ability to perceive things objectively, sure we have consensus constructs and we can assess situations logically but if the original understanding of the situation was interpretive then how can the conclusions be so?
just a thought on instincts and bias's. we are born lawyers, a child who can't speak but can move about can tell good from bad, if you drop a pencil and want it back or if you throw the pencil across the room and don't. this is a basic understanding of intentionality, understanding emotion and how it connects to actions and if those actions are good or bad and the ability analyse the situation and act accordingly. stuff we can't teach and if we did we could would probably get it badly wrong.
THE world is an objective place, unfortunately my world and your world is inherently subjective. we see the world through the stories that we tell ourselves and are told to us, perspective and framing have much to say about how one lives in and sees the objective world.
as an atheist, technically, you can't account for why we think logically. the brain and all chemicals there in are physical and only have to obey the laws of chemistry and physics. there is no mechanism that allows for logic.
I don't know if you understand what bi-polar is. People with real bi-polar cannot control it, at best to an extent and almost have to be medicated or they cannot function. I certainly wish it was all about controlling behind happy and sad.
She gave us too much credit--I'm sure a lot of tool using was trial and error.
Lastly, her optimistic view of the future is probably going to be hampered by the fact that future generations are going to be less intelligent (stupid people breed more).
Also it's fun to use the "logical brain" to train one's "emotional brain". That thingy can be pretty awesomely quick and if you have trained it to be accurate as well, it becomes totally >9000, and imba, and it pwns, and so on. ;-)
Emotional responses aren't fixed; if you have noticed a few times that your emotional response to something is inaccurate or illogical, your "emotional brain" will pick up on that and henceforth strive to correct the error. It's all marvelously flexible.
It's not that we are just now starting to think objectively. People have been trying to do that for thousands of years. Now days we can do this without getting burned at the stake, dismembered, arrested or hung in the name of God. Of course this still goes on now in highly religious states.
The concept of making your brain work for you is so spot on. In a way, using your own brain against itself is what allows free will to happen, in the practical sense of free will as we know it. I'd make a plug for Dan Dennet, but I'd bet you know of him already. He has some awesome presenations.
A person can not be objective if they are not first subjective. Besides all of that, you start off speaking in the 1st person, then your agenda sinks in your simple brain, kicks in, and you continue speaking in the 2nd person.
Its very sad. You, this young person, that actually has some brain, is ironically, very much none objective.
Your agenda is creating a little bubble world for you to live in and there you may eventually fine a place to live. The horror, is you will live all alone.
Brilliant video. I've gone through and watched some of your past vids, since subing, but some how missed this one till now. This logical/emotional mind conflict seems to be the main source of trouble in most peoples lives.
Hey you! the girl on the video!! Do you have a boyfriend? If not, would you marry me? My logic says that my instincts are not wrong, so, being objective, you're a great and balanced mix of beauty and intelligence. (Kiss!)
i like the content of which you speak. I can best relate to what you are saying when i think about when i am playing basketball, see how some guys go by intuition and some like myself logically think about the game. It always amazing me how many of the ppl i play with just play by instinct and they never seem to logically think about their next move.For me i like to practice logic til it becomes instinct.
Hahaha. I like it. That's similar to how I think about it all.
Incidentally, I think you're talking about the frontal lobe for logical brain and the limbic system for emotional brain. The limbic system is implicated in olfaction and emotionality, the frontal lobe is implicated in "executive functions" i.e. conscious and logical regulation of other brain functions.
i have to correct you. most species don't start, there just make no more development. birds using sticks to get a bug for example. we can assume they do this longer than apes using stones. but they don't develope them because of lack of benifit. we make tests and see parots can talk. but this isn't good or bad so it stops and parots in nature don't need to get better in it.
I don't want out of the Matrix. Paranoia, personal danger, back stabbing, no thank you.
Doubtless if there was a matrix, I would opt to leave. But as of yet, there is no evidence.
Also, you may be jesus, but I am God. And as my son, you must be subject to my dick of wrath!!! HOLY FUCKING INCEST! Divine, digital incest! The matrix has put the taste of cum in your mouth!
I am the Dildo of wrath, AND I HAVE SPOKEN! (vibrate vibrate vibrate.)
Laura, the solution is in the opposite way. :) The motivation to do arose from the dissatisfaction of the mind, and the goal of doing is to find satisfaction. But there is nothing in the world that has inherent value; our mind projects values onto things. So the ultimate source of dissatisfaction is not the actual lack of some "right" conditions, but our wrong attitude towards the existing conditions. Real freedom is not the freedom of desires, but the freedom from desires: calming the mind.
Actually, I believe that emotions make us human, because it allows art. Art is also a human trait. Lack of emotion is machination. It is a domination of intelligence or maturation of intelligence that is our future, balancing emotion with intelligence.
What about this despair? You are certainly one of Diane Keatons who are worth it.
Using objects means making objective decisions. By using You decide what to do with Your body. Using is deciding.
So You are basically saying "know Your tools".
I like You mummy explaining of divisions. Yup, good tools. You gotta be careful about what You divide with + keep those divided thingies "mutually exclusive".
Classes against the masses @ Manic Street Preachers !!!
A transhumanist agenda demands no less than forfeiture of all that quintessentially complects "humanness".Some would say posterity of sentience,is hardly worth so costly a sacrifice.
Death is in no need of a cure,because IT IS A CURE...It's Nature's way of maintaining planetary equilibrium.The folly of trying to solve what is itself a solution only evinces how stalwart a lacuna vanity is to Reason.
Whether it,or any Cnidarian will be able to perpetually propagate in an environment composed of helium,hydrogen,and deuterium,however...is not known.When the Sun novas...who can say?
In the event that our favorite stellar ball of gas novas in another 4 billion or so years,Tardigrades MAY survive.They've done so before and traveled in meteors.They have a trehalose,not ribose basis...
We never stop reproducing, and never leave planet earth.
Since it is highly probable we will colonize local space. Reproduction could be continued with no risk of overpopulating homeworld. Once you reach times when you have no "expiration date". Once you are freed from all the human needs, bound on earth with time running out, I ask you, what is the point in natural reproduction?
But once you have no natural death what is the point in prolonging the species by reproducing?
So you see, by that point reproduction becomes nothing more but an instinct that is no more necessary. So why keeping it?
For the fun of it? Because you feel the urge to have children? My point is, hyphoteticaly, if we end up colonizing local space, should we continue reproducing and filling space with human race indefinitely?
Literally as well as metaphorically,you may be describing 'escape from orbits' our species is incapable of effecting over the next 80 or 90 yrs on Earth.Have you thought-thru the logistics of what you propound?
Given the ubiquity of economic woes in an aegis that places its cards squarely on Globalization,on what do you base the likelihood of space colonization?
Given todays level of technological advancement it is definitely not economically feasible, even in the near future. But I am optimistic on the level of rise in science and technology development. that would be high enough to provide us means of traveling, sustaining life and recycling materials, to and in the outer space.
If I understand you correctly, your arguments are very realistic.
But you seem to forget that if something is certain about the future, its that it is uncertain. I am not suggesting any date when colonization might happen. My guess is that a large colonization of Mars, and Moon wont happen before 22 century and well after the beginning of the same...
1) Whoa, that's deep man! Like, there could be a WHOLE other universe microns away from ours with TOTALLY different laws and all....
Yeah, but it has no bearing on our universe so it must be excluded. That which we sense, see and observe IS our universe, and to think that it will suddenly and without reason stop functioning as such is illogical.
2) Is your argument that while 1+1=2 today, tomorrow it may =3 for no reason at all? That does not seem logical either.
1. How do you know? (not to mention the fact that saying that something WILL WORK a certain way because it HAS WORKED a certain way is QUESTION BEGGING).
1), No, begging the question is a circular statement like "God exists because the Bible says so"
Repeated observation with absolutely no deviation from the observed behavior does allow you to make predictions about future behaviors, and it is not begging the question, please get your fallacious terminology and definitions correct..
Are you suggesting that humans derived the laws of logic? Could the universe have both existed and not existed at the same time and in the same way before the law of non-contradiction evolved in the human brain???
What is your source of objectivity? - Not blindly believing in some fantasy "god" is a great starting point to being objective
Are you suggesting that humans derived the laws of logic?
- Logic as in Mathematical logic? No, I think humans had to discover that one. Logic as in the various schools of reasoning, yes, that is created by humans, hence the various schools of thought... get it?
non-contradiction is a philosophical idea, not a "law".
One more time, by having a "source" to begin with, you inherently negate the ability to be objective.
Could the universe have both existed, and not existed before humans 'created' the law of non-contradiction?
No, it either existed or it did not. "At the same time" is a concept dependant on our universe itself. Without our universe there was no spacetime, and therefore no such thing as "the same time".
I have dedicated my life to striking and maintaining a balance between my thoughts and my emotions for years, and I am so happy to see that I am not the only one who thinks this way. They key is to think about the way you feel rather than just reacting to it. Once you realize that you are strong enough to feel anything, you can just let emotions be what they are and examine them from a point outside of them.
the onlt problem with thinking like this, is that humans have used it so often, there is no evolution for us, we have been the same for thousands of years for one reason: we have never needed to evolve anymore, we just change the environment around us so we don't have to adapt
Our tool-making ability usurped most of the 'natural' evolutionary process, which is why we have stayed so 'true' to the first tool-makers. We are not limited, to a great extent, by our envirinment; people can live in Antarctica, as an example. Yay for the human brain!
Could it be that natural selection will continue working in the new enviroment we have created? It takes increasing intelligence to succeed in this complex technical society. The old saying birds of a feather still holds true. Educated intelligent people come together and pass on their genes driving forward the evolution of intelligence. Just a thought.
Well from simple human experience I can recognise these polarities. The fight flight type and the more comfortable (logical or perhaps even loving) state. Call it yin/yang, flesh/spirit, primitive/logical.
Interesting question: Can logic be loving?
It certainly is interesting to study how people have dealt with these possibilities through the ages. I have a lot to learn. And incidentally, much of human grappling with this and related questions is laid down in religious traditions.
Exactly ! Dogma comes from an older evolution state of human consciousness before the appearing of rational state. Not so many people can afford to have a proper education and access to rationality. Evolution is a slow process, yet a sense of balanced cooperation between rational and emotional states is still essential....
Starts of good and then WHAT A SHOCK it goes to crap as usual. Woman stop over heating your neurons. Stone age my ass. People were smart in the past and apparently many times over people today. We are not improving we are degenerating into caos as individuals and radically as groups. We have become so stupid that some times I think I´m living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. And I´m not at all very smart to begin with. Long Long time ago people use to be FREE now we are expendable pawns.
well, a critical mind in possession of itself is not subject that much to society. there are many people in possession of their minds. and human history has always been a mixture of ignorance and enlightenment - so i don't know what makes you feel so doomed. just make sure you can give something of your own 'free' mind to the process of cultural evolution.
getting pissed off may not help a situation but i think it's SO important that some people are like that, me , anyone. if we didn't get sad or angry about a situation then there is no developing, no learning, and no diveristy.
so even though we should learn how to use our objective brains better, i think our primitive brain is what makes the world go round (in good way- the world would still go round if we didn't but it'd be a pretty boring place)
I recommend you give Objectivism a look. It is a philosophy that really explains epistemology and metaphysics well. It deals with human cognition very well among the various things.
It's a philosophy that promotes individual rights, capitalism, and, it goes without saying, atheistic.
I just recommended you give it a look if you're unfamiliar with it. I find it very comprehensive and fitting my sense of life, and since we're like-minded on theism I thought I'd share. Obviously the name doesn't give the full picture, and neither can a youtube comment.
If you're interested search up MrCropper username here on youtube for many outstanding videos.
Lol, you should consider atheism and science, quantum physics, string theory, astronomy and Eckart Tolle. You should also make videos on youtube. NOW, lmao.
This compartmentalization of the mind, where we are divided in our thought process between our emotional compulsions and our rational faculties, is where the problem of religion originates and it is where religion, and its deleterious influence on society, can ultimately be defeated. Once we hone the minds of people to think more rationally than emotionally, you will spell the death of religion and its stultifying effects on society.
i think that's an oversimplification. i mean - how would you locate those, as you say, separate areas? - how seperate are they, if at all? 'emotion' or discomfort is a great representation of cognitive ill-function, and vice versa. as regards to religion, there is a hijacking of the instinct during indoctrination, the instinct which speaks quite directly to logic - in my opinion.
No. Logically speaking that will never happen. Until percieved rationalist, understand what really drives religion, you guys will always misdiagnosed the root of it. Religion isn't something conjured up by the "illogical" emotional brain. It's a force that has it's root in human experiences. Did you hear what I said? Experiences. Most people who are religious can report to having a religious experience as a catalyst to believing in a God. Continued....
...maybe not always God but at least in some form a spirituality or "highten awareness" of self and the world at large. Human experiences are the most pertinant of teaching tool there is. Nothing can supliment it. Not even the logical brain. Infact the weight of an experience often transends our logic, because it takes us past the point where we are merely thinking about what's going on with us. Love and hate are the best examples. Love needs to be experienced to be understood best. Same w/ God.
internal experience and external experience seem like equally valid experiences. i think a healthy use of both to inform each other is the most balanced approach. action based only on emotion with disregard to perception is insanity, and action based only on perception with disregard to emotion results in meaninglessness and disconnection from others and yourself.
well, i should say it has not proven it's long term usefulness. our population and average lifespan have been vastly increased through science, which is a consequence of self awareness, however another consequence has been the ability to decieve, deny necessities, and the creation of methods for the total annihilation of human kind - which we have thus far proven incapable of eliminating. i am optimistic about intelligence and self awareness, but it may not serve us well, ultimately.
self awareness is a new and evolutionarily unpopular development. logic, an extension of self awareness, is similarly new, and unique, and although it is emotionally appealing, it is not the norm for life on earth. humans tend to see self awareness and communication as the pinnacle of evolution, however it has not yet evinced it's usefulness evolutionarily. we find it interesting to have a removed perpective, however our total mass on earth is still 1/20th that of arthropodae.
We might be able to live forever in the future. The Brain may be protected in a machine. Nanobots/nanites may be used to rejuvenate it as it ages. The only thing that worries me about it, is the Government. I personally very much Trust them now. But one day, if things go wrong, they 'could' decide that no one is allowed to die, ever. There would be nothing you could do about it. Living under a Dictatorship in those kinds of conditions is something I prefer not to think about.
i disagree with waht you said about compatibility of the brains. Being able to separate these 2 components of the human mind is what we should be aiming for. We have to be able to compartmentalize and be rational at appropriate moments and at times just let that stupid comment slip etc. Having both merge together would give you intelligent design or dexter ( aka a smart serial killer who manages to rationalize his actions ) =)
If the human mind as it now stands is evolved enough to understand ultimate truths and the nature of reality, I would be very skeptical about the validity of those truths and disappointed in the quality of that reality.
The limbic system performs operations that are critical for advanced reasoning especially the hippocampus. The limbic system and its lobes work in concert with regions of the cerebral cortex to accomplish what we would call higher forms of cognition and I caution against the mistake of assuming there is mutual exclusion, it is a classic error.
The area of the brain responsible for emotions and how that area is related to reasoning ability is more complex than a simple dichotomy.
I continue to be impressed with your analytical powers, since I believe in evolution, I do agree with you that it has only been a short time, but I also want to emphasis on the environmental impact. I think humans need to feel that they belong to something bigger and stronger than us, hence religion, if we used that feeling to just understand that we can be ok with the fact that all humans can feel this belonging towards their fellow human, we could have evolved faster in our objective mind.
Lovely young lady. She should read "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes. Published in 1977 it is a somewhat flawed but very insightful theory how consciousness may have evolved out of godlike "voices" in the heads of people in our primitive societies.
You're obviously no neural scientist
Bulloxe4 3 months ago
@Bulloxe4 I don't know what you are trying to say, but she never said (or even suggested) she is one.
Btw you can't be one yourself, you don't even know how to spell it.
Rettequetette 3 months ago
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I spelled it correctly.
And I'm trying to suggest that she is saying bullshit. Very simple. If you wan't me to elaborate further I will but not if you're someones footsoldier. I don't waste my time on those kind of people.
Bulloxe4 3 months ago
@Bulloxe4 Are you sure you don't mean neuroscientist? If not: I'd like to know what a neural scientist is. Never heard of it (English is not my native language btw).
She is not making any scientific claims, so I don't know how exactly you can qualify her talk as "bullshit". She just tells about some thougts she has about how the brain works.
Saying "you're obviously no neural scientist" (or "bullshit") without further explanation is not really an argument, is it?
Rettequetette 3 months ago
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Bulloxe4 3 months ago
@Rettequetette
It's not an argument because I wasn't making an argument I was expressing a sentiment. I feel that this girl is taking a subject which is much bigger then she can handle and she's making points which are either oversimplified or just wrong.
She just tells about some thougts she has about how the brain works.
-> and that is useless and stupid
And btw, english is not my native language also, and neuroscientist and neural scientist are the same thing. I heard it both ways.
Bulloxe4 3 months ago
@Bulloxe4 She just tells about some thougts she has about how the brain works.
-> and that is useless and stupid
Why?
I'm sorry, but I think this is just another expression of something you "feel", without any arguments whatsoever.
I could be wrong. In that case I'd like to know why you think it's useless and stupid.
Rettequetette 3 months ago
@Rettequetette
My argument is that her point is useless. Her categorisation of the brain on a logical and primitive part falls apart as soon as you try to apply it to any example of brain activity. With the exception of pure logical activity and pure emotion you just can't put your brain process in one of these categories.
And she does admit that at the end of her video.
She basically just said that people are stupid.
And it's not that simple.
Bulloxe4 3 months ago
@Bulloxe4 Ok, thanks for taking the time to explain. You may be right about the brain; I myself am not a scientist.
I don't completely agree with you though, about her 'rambling' being useless and stupid. Thinking and sharing your thoughts is never useless imho. But I guess that's just a matter of taste :-)
Peace.
Rettequetette 3 months ago
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@Rettequetette
Peace
And btw, I know you probably get this all the time, but Netherlands -> best country ever.
Bulloxe4 3 months ago
@Bulloxe4 Yeah, I hear that a lot :-)
I totally agree!
Rettequetette 3 months ago
@Bulloxe4 "She basically just said that people are stupid."
She's basically right.
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@Bulloxe4 Btw I'm nobody's "footsoldier". But I'm almost sure you'll say I am so that you don't have to explain any further.
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gablison 4 months ago
Sometimes to know what to do is less important than to know what not to do...
DocStrange0123 4 months ago
What humans mostly use from logic are logical fallacies.
daEmoNicky 4 months ago
About 170 people are close minded assholes that don't have a logical brain at all.
unknown77051 11 months ago
@unknown77051 good one lol
mxy2kaxl2 9 months ago
i felt like you were talking directly to me O.o :D
SmileFIN 1 year ago
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krstcmjns 1 year ago
@LanteanKnight As nice as that sounds it's mostly garbage. We have a tool that is as far as we know as objective as something can possibly be: it's called mathematics. If you want to deal with any complex problem forget about common sense and try to use mathematical logic instead. It is especially good at simplifying questions regarding natural phenomena and within philosophy its far more accurately predictive and useful than any supernaturalistic non-explanation, cop-out and/or fallacy.
TehPhysicalist 1 year ago
We can never view anything objectively because we are always bound to our senses to perceive reality. Even using scientific devices we still have to collect the information through our senses.
The reason we can't even think objectively using our ratio is because it has been shaped throughout our lives through our senses. This way the 'subjective' view of the outside world becomes objective to us in our mind.
LanteanKnight 1 year ago
instect and intuition are two different things. I think your just starting to relize who you are.
FLNative1 1 year ago
It might be the E,but I think I love you.
01greenbud 1 year ago
I just hate you about the vegan stuff...other than that, ur the coldest biatch around..just kidding, ur great...
JamesTR4 1 year ago
This video is full of crap, no offence.
I am an atheist and I generally like your videos, but you made really some bold assertions very similar to the ones religion does.
I mean what is with the "subjective view being the emotional brain and objective view is the logical brain" ... that is essentially subjective, at best.
And then you made some bold assertions about human history ...
Were you on drugs this time? Seriously :)
edisonnica 1 year ago 2
@edisonnica I'm sorry to have to jump aboard here too, but you're right. I like the FactsvsReligion videos, but you should be more specific with logical brain, emotional brain etc. It's not that I don't get it, but in these videos you're not just adressing people who are in the field of science or have an atheist world view, and especially those who have no clue, love to use terminology they don't understand. you might just give aid to them by doing that.
3vegemite 1 year ago
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This video is full of crap, no offence.
I am an atheist and I generally like your videos, but you made really some bold assertions very similar to the ones religion does.
I mean what is with the "subjective view being the emotional brain and objective view is the logical brain" ... that is essentially subjective, at best.
And then you made some bold assertions about human history ...
Were you on drugs this time? Seriously :)
edisonnica 1 year ago
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edisonnica 1 year ago
I have a question. When you were tripping on a mushrooom and had a near to near death experience, why were you so afraid of dying ? It is ironic because I thought that the last thing that an athesis would be afraid of is dying, because there is nothing else; there is no haven or hell. Why are athesis so afraid of dying? I'm not a religious person but a religious person could run with that.
121902armando 1 year ago
@121902armando "Why are atheists so afraid of dying." Whether theist of atheist, people are inherently afraid of death and will always be. A theistic belief, or lack there of, does nothing to mititgate this fact.
nosajj12345 1 year ago
@121902armando No, because the putting all off your effort into not dying is one of the most ancient instics in humans as well as in more primitive animals. It's just Evolution kicking in. That's why you can't choke yourself to death with your own hands. Otherwise even depressed people would. But that's when your instincts kick in. Question solved.
3vegemite 1 year ago
You sure are sexy Laura, but sometimes your logical brain isn't quite up to snuff. This video is a case in point.
cunnidvd 1 year ago 2
I really admire your sense of gumption. However, I think your "hobby" has hindered your ability to effectively construct your thoughts.
shexy313 1 year ago 2
there are people born without brains that have high IQ"S and are normal
DarkBeauty1989 1 year ago
Yes, science is working on curing death. And in the future they will most probably succeed. Shit, it's a shame we weren't born 500 or 1000 years later or something. The people who live then will be so much better off than us.
winterstellar 1 year ago
I so appreciate what you are doing! Thank you.
diegovela1 1 year ago
you are really fantastic .
b17601 1 year ago
Close to cure death? We certainlly are not, and I hope we never will. When we confront death we are the most honest beings we can ever be. Death is so much natural and important as life.
RestauranteChines 1 year ago
I wasn't aware that we had the ability to perceive things objectively, sure we have consensus constructs and we can assess situations logically but if the original understanding of the situation was interpretive then how can the conclusions be so?
I may be splitting hairs here though :P
Amarkcalledme 1 year ago
Superbly articulated.Even better than Sagan,I'd say.
djnross 1 year ago
I know very few logic people. The general public is mostly emotional and ignorant followers.
pauswa1966 1 year ago
I love this woman. She embodies the perfect human for me from what I see from her videos. Hugs and kisses, Laura.
d3st88 1 year ago 2
@d3st88 :@ this is my wife , dont kiss and hug my wife :@
icestation1978 1 year ago
a woman giving lectures rational behaviour ... I'm not a sexiuist, but you dont see that everyday.
btw, there are classes ... that is classes in 'critical thinking'. That is what it seems you'd be talking about.
ASKaPHYSICIST 1 year ago 5
just a thought on instincts and bias's. we are born lawyers, a child who can't speak but can move about can tell good from bad, if you drop a pencil and want it back or if you throw the pencil across the room and don't. this is a basic understanding of intentionality, understanding emotion and how it connects to actions and if those actions are good or bad and the ability analyse the situation and act accordingly. stuff we can't teach and if we did we could would probably get it badly wrong.
RedLetterChristian 1 year ago
@RedLetterChristian
Your assertion conflicts directly with reality.
yubarraboo 1 year ago
THE world is an objective place, unfortunately my world and your world is inherently subjective. we see the world through the stories that we tell ourselves and are told to us, perspective and framing have much to say about how one lives in and sees the objective world.
as an atheist, technically, you can't account for why we think logically. the brain and all chemicals there in are physical and only have to obey the laws of chemistry and physics. there is no mechanism that allows for logic.
RedLetterChristian 1 year ago
I don't know if you understand what bi-polar is. People with real bi-polar cannot control it, at best to an extent and almost have to be medicated or they cannot function. I certainly wish it was all about controlling behind happy and sad.
TAXavier 1 year ago
@TAXavier I agree with you
LunarWolfSky 1 year ago
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WarmWeatherGuy 1 year ago
I wish more people think like you do. You are not only beautiful, but your also so much more intelligent than above average person!
Jupiterx5 1 year ago
Ugh... She lost me on this one.
She tripped on Morgan's Canon.
She gave us too much credit--I'm sure a lot of tool using was trial and error.
Lastly, her optimistic view of the future is probably going to be hampered by the fact that future generations are going to be less intelligent (stupid people breed more).
Lordbrucifer 2 years ago
@Lordbrucifer
True, but they also live less healthy. And stupid people should not reach the top of society.
And the crowd follows the top. I would say that we do have a chance. Odds arent perfect, but at least we have odds :)
supergamwich 1 year ago
@supergamwich
And with the "top" I mean politicians, scientists, you know, the people that are followed. I do not mean to disrespect any other job.
supergamwich 1 year ago
Ugh... She lost me on this one.
She failed with Morgan's Canon.
We didn't put that much thought to using tools.
I'm quite certain that a lot of it was trial and error.
Lordbrucifer 2 years ago
Also it's fun to use the "logical brain" to train one's "emotional brain". That thingy can be pretty awesomely quick and if you have trained it to be accurate as well, it becomes totally >9000, and imba, and it pwns, and so on. ;-)
Emotional responses aren't fixed; if you have noticed a few times that your emotional response to something is inaccurate or illogical, your "emotional brain" will pick up on that and henceforth strive to correct the error. It's all marvelously flexible.
telofy 2 years ago
good points
oober349 2 years ago
the octopus uses tools........
benjippoi 2 years ago 9
@benjippoi 8 at a time
Generalcashmycheque 1 year ago
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krstcmjns 1 year ago
Entheogens can help separate you from the bullshit.
buckfushes 2 years ago
It's not that we are just now starting to think objectively. People have been trying to do that for thousands of years. Now days we can do this without getting burned at the stake, dismembered, arrested or hung in the name of God. Of course this still goes on now in highly religious states.
baxtar1963 2 years ago
The concept of making your brain work for you is so spot on. In a way, using your own brain against itself is what allows free will to happen, in the practical sense of free will as we know it. I'd make a plug for Dan Dennet, but I'd bet you know of him already. He has some awesome presenations.
l337pwnage 2 years ago
Laura, gracias por darnos a conocer tu perspectiva del cerebro; solo quiero añadir que respeto y adoro enormemente al tuyo.
Espero poder disfrutar por mucho tiempo de ti y tus videos.
Take care please
Neander121 2 years ago
A person can not be objective if they are not first subjective. Besides all of that, you start off speaking in the 1st person, then your agenda sinks in your simple brain, kicks in, and you continue speaking in the 2nd person.
Its very sad. You, this young person, that actually has some brain, is ironically, very much none objective.
Your agenda is creating a little bubble world for you to live in and there you may eventually fine a place to live. The horror, is you will live all alone.
YouSpamTard 2 years ago
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will....
...Because solitude is an achievement.
---Thoreau
I think she's brilliant.
WindChildsWorld 2 years ago
I love your videos!!!
ProudHumanist 2 years ago
I miss my brain . . .
genericmeatunit 2 years ago
Brilliant video. I've gone through and watched some of your past vids, since subing, but some how missed this one till now. This logical/emotional mind conflict seems to be the main source of trouble in most peoples lives.
LonaanGreen 2 years ago
Hey you! the girl on the video!! Do you have a boyfriend? If not, would you marry me? My logic says that my instincts are not wrong, so, being objective, you're a great and balanced mix of beauty and intelligence. (Kiss!)
juarezcastelo 2 years ago
i like the content of which you speak. I can best relate to what you are saying when i think about when i am playing basketball, see how some guys go by intuition and some like myself logically think about the game. It always amazing me how many of the ppl i play with just play by instinct and they never seem to logically think about their next move.For me i like to practice logic til it becomes instinct.
gqbredrin 2 years ago
Signals we sense become a model in our mind, which we inhabit.
Everything is ideas. it's how our brain presents us with information.
Most of us will only ever see one face of the moon; a whisper of photons, and yet in our universes it is a sphere.
We induce things into being more easily than we realize.
It's why we should always test our ideas.
Imagine billions of tonnes of moon disappearing from our heads if we found out the moon was hollow.
New ideas change the world in more ways than one.
marsCubed 2 years ago
Hahaha. I like it. That's similar to how I think about it all.
Incidentally, I think you're talking about the frontal lobe for logical brain and the limbic system for emotional brain. The limbic system is implicated in olfaction and emotionality, the frontal lobe is implicated in "executive functions" i.e. conscious and logical regulation of other brain functions.
I think that's what you're getting at here.
smhussain62 2 years ago
i don't want to comment on this video right now because i am TOTALLY WASTED!... but.
she speaks the truth. i am not so sure about her definition of subjective and objective but other than that it sounded fantastic.
twiistaaa 2 years ago
Eugenics to boost human brain!
Baranius1 2 years ago
You are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for putting yourself out there and talking on these subjects.
wmichaeltenery 2 years ago 17
i have to correct you. most species don't start, there just make no more development. birds using sticks to get a bug for example. we can assume they do this longer than apes using stones. but they don't develope them because of lack of benifit. we make tests and see parots can talk. but this isn't good or bad so it stops and parots in nature don't need to get better in it.
Y0ts0 2 years ago
Did our physicality create our Brain, or did our brain create our physicality?
MultiHal 2 years ago
Subjective = Personal experience; How we percieve the world.
Objective = Physical reality; How things actually are.
Logic is being able to discern the two.
smthngdffrnt 2 years ago
Great vid but you sounded a bit like a Scientologist.
Reactive and analytical minds, controlling the future and making it work for you. I agree with you completely but found the parallel intersting :)
cynobill 2 years ago
subscribed!! i totally agree with everything you were talking about and you explained it so well
i luv you :)))))
hallersniper 2 years ago
The feeling of feeling shitty is real.
Yes. Unless we live in the matrix.
stevenodd 2 years ago
When you eat cream cheese, it's actually the taste of rust. But the matrix tells you it's real.
Proletariat12 2 years ago
I however, do not eat cream cheese.
But, why rust? How do you know it tastes like rust? Rust actually tastes like cotton candy, but the matrix tells you it's real.
stevenodd 2 years ago
Because I can plug myself into the matrix's hardcode. I know the real tastes and the proported tastes.
I'm sorry, but I can't let you out of the matrix. Only the one can do that. The one called Jesus Christ, which is me.
Just accept me because I am true.
Don't ever!!! take 2 Ibprofen, 1 aspirin, and 1.3 tylanol washed down with dissolved toothpaste in grape soda.
YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES!!
Jesus has spoken. The Matrix has you. You can't do anything about it.
Proletariat12 2 years ago
I don't want out of the Matrix. Paranoia, personal danger, back stabbing, no thank you.
Doubtless if there was a matrix, I would opt to leave. But as of yet, there is no evidence.
Also, you may be jesus, but I am God. And as my son, you must be subject to my dick of wrath!!! HOLY FUCKING INCEST! Divine, digital incest! The matrix has put the taste of cum in your mouth!
I am the Dildo of wrath, AND I HAVE SPOKEN! (vibrate vibrate vibrate.)
stevenodd 2 years ago
Laura, the solution is in the opposite way. :) The motivation to do arose from the dissatisfaction of the mind, and the goal of doing is to find satisfaction. But there is nothing in the world that has inherent value; our mind projects values onto things. So the ultimate source of dissatisfaction is not the actual lack of some "right" conditions, but our wrong attitude towards the existing conditions. Real freedom is not the freedom of desires, but the freedom from desires: calming the mind.
Baratgab 2 years ago
Bingo, I think you've got it exactly.
roentgen571 2 years ago
Actually, I believe that emotions make us human, because it allows art. Art is also a human trait. Lack of emotion is machination. It is a domination of intelligence or maturation of intelligence that is our future, balancing emotion with intelligence.
stevenodd 2 years ago
It's interesting how your thought system is not quite as stupid as most people's.
soulfuluniverse 2 years ago
Where can I buy this Logical Brain?
What about this despair? You are certainly one of Diane Keatons who are worth it.
Using objects means making objective decisions. By using You decide what to do with Your body. Using is deciding.
So You are basically saying "know Your tools".
I like You mummy explaining of divisions. Yup, good tools. You gotta be careful about what You divide with + keep those divided thingies "mutually exclusive".
Classes against the masses @ Manic Street Preachers !!!
daEmoNicky 2 years ago
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kristijan12 2 years ago
A transhumanist agenda demands no less than forfeiture of all that quintessentially complects "humanness".Some would say posterity of sentience,is hardly worth so costly a sacrifice.
djnross 2 years ago
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kristijan12 2 years ago
Death is in no need of a cure,because IT IS A CURE...It's Nature's way of maintaining planetary equilibrium.The folly of trying to solve what is itself a solution only evinces how stalwart a lacuna vanity is to Reason.
djnross 2 years ago
Nothing that is carbon -based and functions on a Kreb's cycle will ever live indefinitely.Nor organismically should it.
djnross 2 years ago
Except for Turritopsis Nutricula, apparently.
MilesB1975 2 years ago
Whether it,or any Cnidarian will be able to perpetually propagate in an environment composed of helium,hydrogen,and deuterium,however...is not known.When the Sun novas...who can say?
djnross 2 years ago
In the event that our favorite stellar ball of gas novas in another 4 billion or so years,Tardigrades MAY survive.They've done so before and traveled in meteors.They have a trehalose,not ribose basis...
djnross 2 years ago
I would agree with you only in one case.
We never stop reproducing, and never leave planet earth.
Since it is highly probable we will colonize local space. Reproduction could be continued with no risk of overpopulating homeworld. Once you reach times when you have no "expiration date". Once you are freed from all the human needs, bound on earth with time running out, I ask you, what is the point in natural reproduction?
kristijan12 2 years ago
Your question then begs the more absurd corollary:WHAT IS THE POINT OF HUMAN NATURE?
djnross 2 years ago
To prolong species by reproducing.
To continue the circle.
But once you have no natural death what is the point in prolonging the species by reproducing?
So you see, by that point reproduction becomes nothing more but an instinct that is no more necessary. So why keeping it?
For the fun of it? Because you feel the urge to have children? My point is, hyphoteticaly, if we end up colonizing local space, should we continue reproducing and filling space with human race indefinitely?
kristijan12 2 years ago
Literally as well as metaphorically,you may be describing 'escape from orbits' our species is incapable of effecting over the next 80 or 90 yrs on Earth.Have you thought-thru the logistics of what you propound?
djnross 2 years ago
Given the ubiquity of economic woes in an aegis that places its cards squarely on Globalization,on what do you base the likelihood of space colonization?
djnross 2 years ago
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Given todays level of technological advancement it is definitely not economically feasible, even in the near future. But I am optimistic on the level of rise in science and technology development. that would be high enough to provide us means of traveling, sustaining life and recycling materials, to and in the outer space.
kristijan12 2 years ago
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I base it on pure optimism.
If I understand you correctly, your arguments are very realistic.
But you seem to forget that if something is certain about the future, its that it is uncertain. I am not suggesting any date when colonization might happen. My guess is that a large colonization of Mars, and Moon wont happen before 22 century and well after the beginning of the same...
kristijan12 2 years ago
lovely eyes
josetogan 2 years ago
//"So ultimately, how do I know? I don't!"//
I rest my case.
Cheers
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
1. How do you know that those sciences, the senses with which you access them, and the reasoning with which you interpret them are valid?
2. How does logic exist now as a property of the universe, and on what basis do you proceed with the assumption that it will not change?
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
1) Whoa, that's deep man! Like, there could be a WHOLE other universe microns away from ours with TOTALLY different laws and all....
Yeah, but it has no bearing on our universe so it must be excluded. That which we sense, see and observe IS our universe, and to think that it will suddenly and without reason stop functioning as such is illogical.
2) Is your argument that while 1+1=2 today, tomorrow it may =3 for no reason at all? That does not seem logical either.
phricak 2 years ago
1. How do you know? (not to mention the fact that saying that something WILL WORK a certain way because it HAS WORKED a certain way is QUESTION BEGGING).
2. How does logic exist now?
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
1), No, begging the question is a circular statement like "God exists because the Bible says so"
Repeated observation with absolutely no deviation from the observed behavior does allow you to make predictions about future behaviors, and it is not begging the question, please get your fallacious terminology and definitions correct..
phricak 2 years ago
//"Logic existed before humans ever described it with laws and will exist after we're gone and no longer describe it with laws.'//
1. How do you know?
2. In what form did logic exist before humans described it?
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
In what form did logic exist prior to humans inventing the laws of logic?
Could the universe both have existed, and not existed at the same time and in the same way before humans 'invented' the law of non-contradiction?
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
In what form did logic exist prior to humans inventing the laws of logic?
Mathematical
See previous remark regarding spacetime and the flawed concept of existing and not existing at the same _time_
phricak 2 years ago
What is your source of objectivity?
Are you suggesting that humans derived the laws of logic? Could the universe have both existed and not existed at the same time and in the same way before the law of non-contradiction evolved in the human brain???
(This isn't the mushrooms talking is it?)
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
What is your source of objectivity? - Not blindly believing in some fantasy "god" is a great starting point to being objective
Are you suggesting that humans derived the laws of logic?
- Logic as in Mathematical logic? No, I think humans had to discover that one. Logic as in the various schools of reasoning, yes, that is created by humans, hence the various schools of thought... get it?
non-contradiction is a philosophical idea, not a "law".
phricak 2 years ago
So, um, what is your source of objectivity?
Could the universe have both existed, and not existed before humans 'created' the law of non-contradiction? If not, why not?
ProofThatGodExists 2 years ago
> So, um, what is your source of objectivity?
One more time, by having a "source" to begin with, you inherently negate the ability to be objective.
Could the universe have both existed, and not existed before humans 'created' the law of non-contradiction?
No, it either existed or it did not. "At the same time" is a concept dependant on our universe itself. Without our universe there was no spacetime, and therefore no such thing as "the same time".
See "Special Relativity" for more info.
phricak 2 years ago
your words are an afrront to GOD, and you can bet He is listening!!!
i bet your a vegetarian and pro-gay and pro-abortion too. YOU LOVE SIN AND EVIL.
but Jesus loves YOU, think about it
xjaskix 2 years ago
#your words are an afrront to GOD, and you can bet He is listening!!!#
I hope he is, he might learn something.
#i bet your a vegetarian and pro-gay and pro-abortion too. YOU LOVE SIN AND EVIL.#
I thought "betting" was a "sin"?
#but Jesus loves YOU, think about it#
I love her more! :D
J2897Tutorials 2 years ago
#i bet your a vegetarian and pro-gay and pro-abortion too. YOU LOVE SIN AND EVIL.#
"Who art thou that judgest another?"
- James 4:12
J2897Tutorials 2 years ago
I have dedicated my life to striking and maintaining a balance between my thoughts and my emotions for years, and I am so happy to see that I am not the only one who thinks this way. They key is to think about the way you feel rather than just reacting to it. Once you realize that you are strong enough to feel anything, you can just let emotions be what they are and examine them from a point outside of them.
PluralOfEverything 2 years ago
the onlt problem with thinking like this, is that humans have used it so often, there is no evolution for us, we have been the same for thousands of years for one reason: we have never needed to evolve anymore, we just change the environment around us so we don't have to adapt
hilers72652 2 years ago
Our tool-making ability usurped most of the 'natural' evolutionary process, which is why we have stayed so 'true' to the first tool-makers. We are not limited, to a great extent, by our envirinment; people can live in Antarctica, as an example. Yay for the human brain!
MaximusVelocity 2 years ago
Could it be that natural selection will continue working in the new enviroment we have created? It takes increasing intelligence to succeed in this complex technical society. The old saying birds of a feather still holds true. Educated intelligent people come together and pass on their genes driving forward the evolution of intelligence. Just a thought.
insightnew 2 years ago
Well from simple human experience I can recognise these polarities. The fight flight type and the more comfortable (logical or perhaps even loving) state. Call it yin/yang, flesh/spirit, primitive/logical.
Interesting question: Can logic be loving?
It certainly is interesting to study how people have dealt with these possibilities through the ages. I have a lot to learn. And incidentally, much of human grappling with this and related questions is laid down in religious traditions.
PtrFmls 2 years ago
Exactly ! Dogma comes from an older evolution state of human consciousness before the appearing of rational state. Not so many people can afford to have a proper education and access to rationality. Evolution is a slow process, yet a sense of balanced cooperation between rational and emotional states is still essential....
sammasati1 2 years ago
Starts of good and then WHAT A SHOCK it goes to crap as usual. Woman stop over heating your neurons. Stone age my ass. People were smart in the past and apparently many times over people today. We are not improving we are degenerating into caos as individuals and radically as groups. We have become so stupid that some times I think I´m living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. And I´m not at all very smart to begin with. Long Long time ago people use to be FREE now we are expendable pawns.
adrianfi7 2 years ago
"We are not improving we are degenerating into caos"
That's some good fail, right there.
NBegovich 2 years ago
well, a critical mind in possession of itself is not subject that much to society. there are many people in possession of their minds. and human history has always been a mixture of ignorance and enlightenment - so i don't know what makes you feel so doomed. just make sure you can give something of your own 'free' mind to the process of cultural evolution.
spotlitkiss 2 years ago
getting pissed off may not help a situation but i think it's SO important that some people are like that, me , anyone. if we didn't get sad or angry about a situation then there is no developing, no learning, and no diveristy.
so even though we should learn how to use our objective brains better, i think our primitive brain is what makes the world go round (in good way- the world would still go round if we didn't but it'd be a pretty boring place)
sarrakii 2 years ago
I completely agree.
FactVsReligion 2 years ago
I use this quote a lot, but I think applies to what you said: "Don't get scared. Get angry."-Terry Pratchett.
GriffinPilgrim 2 years ago
We used tools before the stone age. It's a characteristic of all great apes to use tools. (Especially chimps and humans)
WizardofCalculus 2 years ago
I recommend you give Objectivism a look. It is a philosophy that really explains epistemology and metaphysics well. It deals with human cognition very well among the various things.
It's a philosophy that promotes individual rights, capitalism, and, it goes without saying, atheistic.
NotThat3 3 years ago
well that's kind of redundant considering my own philosophy is fairly objective.
FactVsReligion 3 years ago
I just recommended you give it a look if you're unfamiliar with it. I find it very comprehensive and fitting my sense of life, and since we're like-minded on theism I thought I'd share. Obviously the name doesn't give the full picture, and neither can a youtube comment.
If you're interested search up MrCropper username here on youtube for many outstanding videos.
NotThat3 3 years ago
Lol, you should consider atheism and science, quantum physics, string theory, astronomy and Eckart Tolle. You should also make videos on youtube. NOW, lmao.
silvermillionaire 3 years ago
This compartmentalization of the mind, where we are divided in our thought process between our emotional compulsions and our rational faculties, is where the problem of religion originates and it is where religion, and its deleterious influence on society, can ultimately be defeated. Once we hone the minds of people to think more rationally than emotionally, you will spell the death of religion and its stultifying effects on society.
alphacause 3 years ago
i think that's an oversimplification. i mean - how would you locate those, as you say, separate areas? - how seperate are they, if at all? 'emotion' or discomfort is a great representation of cognitive ill-function, and vice versa. as regards to religion, there is a hijacking of the instinct during indoctrination, the instinct which speaks quite directly to logic - in my opinion.
spotlitkiss 3 years ago
No. Logically speaking that will never happen. Until percieved rationalist, understand what really drives religion, you guys will always misdiagnosed the root of it. Religion isn't something conjured up by the "illogical" emotional brain. It's a force that has it's root in human experiences. Did you hear what I said? Experiences. Most people who are religious can report to having a religious experience as a catalyst to believing in a God. Continued....
souldude81 3 years ago
...maybe not always God but at least in some form a spirituality or "highten awareness" of self and the world at large. Human experiences are the most pertinant of teaching tool there is. Nothing can supliment it. Not even the logical brain. Infact the weight of an experience often transends our logic, because it takes us past the point where we are merely thinking about what's going on with us. Love and hate are the best examples. Love needs to be experienced to be understood best. Same w/ God.
souldude81 3 years ago
internal experience and external experience seem like equally valid experiences. i think a healthy use of both to inform each other is the most balanced approach. action based only on emotion with disregard to perception is insanity, and action based only on perception with disregard to emotion results in meaninglessness and disconnection from others and yourself.
youyou2btoo 3 years ago
well, i should say it has not proven it's long term usefulness. our population and average lifespan have been vastly increased through science, which is a consequence of self awareness, however another consequence has been the ability to decieve, deny necessities, and the creation of methods for the total annihilation of human kind - which we have thus far proven incapable of eliminating. i am optimistic about intelligence and self awareness, but it may not serve us well, ultimately.
youyou2btoo 3 years ago
self awareness is a new and evolutionarily unpopular development. logic, an extension of self awareness, is similarly new, and unique, and although it is emotionally appealing, it is not the norm for life on earth. humans tend to see self awareness and communication as the pinnacle of evolution, however it has not yet evinced it's usefulness evolutionarily. we find it interesting to have a removed perpective, however our total mass on earth is still 1/20th that of arthropodae.
youyou2btoo 3 years ago
in what way exacty is self-awareness not useful?
spotlitkiss 3 years ago
let's not ignore that pure instinct is unadulterated logic.
spotlitkiss 3 years ago
We might be able to live forever in the future. The Brain may be protected in a machine. Nanobots/nanites may be used to rejuvenate it as it ages. The only thing that worries me about it, is the Government. I personally very much Trust them now. But one day, if things go wrong, they 'could' decide that no one is allowed to die, ever. There would be nothing you could do about it. Living under a Dictatorship in those kinds of conditions is something I prefer not to think about.
J2897Tutorials 3 years ago
As long as we can avoid Islamic Fundamentalism and Sharia Law for the next 30-60 years, I think humanity will be fine.
J2897Miscellaneous 3 years ago
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You're kind of cute, but you need to stick to that. Philosophy and science just aren't your thing.
YouLoseAsshole 3 years ago
You Fail, Douchebag.
Surathan 3 years ago
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"You Fail, Douchebag."
Here's a dummass broad telling someone he fails....... hoot hooot
C'mere baby, you're cute, but don't show us your brain. It's....uh we won't get into that....
Sweetheart, come gimme a kiss....
YouLoseAsshole 3 years ago
Dummass?
Man, you're fucking retarded.
Surathan 3 years ago
i disagree with waht you said about compatibility of the brains. Being able to separate these 2 components of the human mind is what we should be aiming for. We have to be able to compartmentalize and be rational at appropriate moments and at times just let that stupid comment slip etc. Having both merge together would give you intelligent design or dexter ( aka a smart serial killer who manages to rationalize his actions ) =)
nekolux 3 years ago
If the human mind as it now stands is evolved enough to understand ultimate truths and the nature of reality, I would be very skeptical about the validity of those truths and disappointed in the quality of that reality.
infernalstinkmonkey 3 years ago
i like controlling the situation, but the idea of controlling myself terribly depressing. i dont know what the reason is !
mildpace 3 years ago
I few points.
The limbic system performs operations that are critical for advanced reasoning especially the hippocampus. The limbic system and its lobes work in concert with regions of the cerebral cortex to accomplish what we would call higher forms of cognition and I caution against the mistake of assuming there is mutual exclusion, it is a classic error.
The area of the brain responsible for emotions and how that area is related to reasoning ability is more complex than a simple dichotomy.
mtheoryrules 3 years ago
I also think that we had periods in life where groups of humans did that and then we had a decline.
BrainfromUSA1970 3 years ago
I continue to be impressed with your analytical powers, since I believe in evolution, I do agree with you that it has only been a short time, but I also want to emphasis on the environmental impact. I think humans need to feel that they belong to something bigger and stronger than us, hence religion, if we used that feeling to just understand that we can be ok with the fact that all humans can feel this belonging towards their fellow human, we could have evolved faster in our objective mind.
BrainfromUSA1970 3 years ago
Lovely young lady. She should read "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes. Published in 1977 it is a somewhat flawed but very insightful theory how consciousness may have evolved out of godlike "voices" in the heads of people in our primitive societies.
massivereader 3 years ago
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zeboelgamed 3 years ago
Unos ojos bellísimos! good vid too
mortemdei 3 years ago
Nice video, FactVsReligion. I really did learn something from this, good one!
Say, you really do look like John Lennon and Richard Roxburgh.
HenryWindgates 3 years ago
Another great video.
theendofconfusion 3 years ago
this is so true, i love this video!
cain825 3 years ago
I plan to marry you in the afterlife!
TheHairyHeart 3 years ago
I love how you are coming up with this as you are talking about it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
draaguaD 3 years ago
˙˙˙ǝsıʍɹǝɥʇo ʎɐs sǝʎǝ ɹǝɥ
0lord0kinbote0 3 years ago
whoa how did you do that?
earthlinggg 3 years ago
¿ʇɐɥʍ op
0lord0kinbote0 3 years ago