Re: R4: The Living Cell (part 2-2)

[reelbigfish222]

why is this labeled as an invalid argument?

[paradirob]

Excellent discussion of the issue! If I were grading this as a philosophy instructor, I would give it an A+. It always boils down to the anecdote about looking into a telescope from either the big end, which makes everything look small, or from the small end which makes everything look large. Other than that, I couldn't improve on what you have said in this video. Dennett wrote Consciousness Explained; Sartre, Being and Nothingness; and, Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception.

[loneskeptic]

Pretty much why I dropped out of classical physics. Too many professors take things like electrons and neutrons as reality. They act as if we're on a quest to mechanize the universe and thereby control it. Perhaps this relates to Magic Man's quest for liberation from the vital nexus...

[HaleyMary]

Philosophy can have it's downside as well. So many of the philosophers of the past, mostly Greek philosophers such as Aristotle would tend to over think about existence and progress to answers only through a very slow gradual process.

[HaleyMary]

You make a good point about how science is more about technology these days. Physics seems to be more about the math and not so much about asking questions about the nature of reality. I mean, physicists do ask questions, but some aspects of physics can be dehumanizing in a way, like focusing on the atoms and the brain and not on the experience of individuals, though I suppose people could argue that they also are a brain.

[OkayFine5]

Now Matt all of the mitochondrion in my cells are signaling to me that they are aware of all of the mitochondrion in your cells. We must sharing neural patterns through You Tube. Now if we could only establish inter-organism neural correlates of consciousness that would be exciting! ;)