I can't believe how many of you missed Dennett's point. Darwin's idea of evolution allied with the likely beginning of life, and Turing's musings on AI leads to a conclusion that we are a product of endless reproduction, starting from a process repeated umpteen times since the first DNA, cell, whatever we started with. The brain/mind is not special, it is not consciousness itself in a metaphysical denotion, it is an organ other life does not possess, yet are these other organisms dead? The mind
how do we know that consciousness can only exist in biological form? what if consciousness can exist in space in nebulas? our bodies at atomic scale behave like plasma. everything in the universe seem to exist in spirals. what's the difference between twisting DNA and tornadoes? why do we have to divide the universe into many realities each seen differently? maybe there is only one code with many differences but with a repetition of sameness.
@coldarc The difference between DNA and a tornado is that the particles that make DNA are in a rigid and unchanging configuration while the particles that make (more like caught in) a tornado are fluid and do not stay in same position.
The shape of the two objects is not all that matters about the objects. The constituents of the objects are as important as the objects themselves.
on computers information can be wirelessly transfered. if consciousness is a program why does it have to come from a machine, why not another program transmitted separated from that machine? maybe the machine is not a machine but a program that emulate machine like behavior? have people ever tried Virtual PC inside a PC? the universe might be just like that. a program that simulate a machine that simulate a program that simulate a machine indefinitely?
I don't agree with Dennet on alot of his philosophical standpoints, but he is an interesting and smart man. He's just stuck in a mundane way of thinking about consciousness.
@saynotodarwin Brother, shut up. You sound like an idiot. You can say read your bible over and over but it won't change science. You can say the scientists are lying, and it still won't change science. You can say morons like Kent Hovind have disproved the evolution theory, and guess what? It still won't change science.
@saynotodarwin The problem with so-called christians in this country is that what they believe is almost totally predicated on whether or not someone else agrees with them. It's a great way of obscuring doubt, which makes this whole debate about power.
@CambridgeHeights- I *have* seen lots of his other work and it is exceptionally clearly reasoned.
@Derman- Quantum physics doesn't show 'all is one', nor does Richard Dawkins recognise 'invisible connections'
@cfarinho1- yes, unintelligent things can be intelligible
@theocean1973- Do rocks exist? they don't think. Does a chess player exist more when he is thinking hard about a move, than when he goes fishing and spaces out?
Dennett is not a big thinker. He's an idiotic thinker. It doesn't show in this video, but you should see some of his other work. Like how free will and determinism are compatible. Yikes
I myself am not limited by religious ideology. Dan Dennet still gets on my nerves. Even Richard Dawkins recognizes the invisible connections we all have to everything else. Quantum physics shows clearly, all is one. Though we could never hope to understand the quantum with our current brain. For such an intellect, he should know that. It seems, to me, he is as limited by ego as is a religious person.
I have a friend who wants to major in philosophy. Unfortunately, I don't think he knows anything about philosophy which makes him a huge headache to talk to sometimes. He likes to act smart and philosophical, which leads him to argue for the sake of argument and take the most absurd and asinine positions against me. I have no idea how to introduce him to real philosophy and real philosophers. He doesn't seem interested in listening to them or reading their books. /headdesk
Give him a link to this website: lesswrong (DOT) com
It should help if he reads it. You might find it interesting ass well. + check out the twelve virtues of rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I had the same problem as him before I stumbled across Eliezer and lesswrong.
I prefer reading Dennet than listening to him. Occasionally I squint as I listen, which I don't like doing. Must just be hard for him to speak through his big beard. His speech is often garbled - to me at least.
Great man, awesome philosopher, it's fun to live in the same period as great thinkers like Dennet. More of us should appreciate it more often. Only in such a way as to not boost their egos. o.O Celebrity culture blows. =D
This sort of boggles me. Do people actually not know what the meaning of life is?
The reason the question is so difficult is that it's worded backwards. The universe, by far and large, is unconscious and does not ascribe meaning. It is LIFE that gives meaning to the universe, and YOU decide the meaning of YOUR life.
However, if he was referring to the ultimate answer as to why the universe is here at all, nobody knows that yet...except theists.
— Sixteen slaves maketh not for living comfortably in any manse worth sacrificing dormant habits for. I believe that it was Captains Kangaroo & Crunch who replaced the wretched Paul Shannon's widow as executor of the Adventure Time estate. Seventeen falls provideth not for shelves that have yet to be screwed into lath-boards you crazy nigger-lover!!! Giving up murder is murderously-hard for anyone who enjoys the act of murder.
One must have faith in all things physical as faith is a necessity in the planning of every deliberate action. One must have faith that the sun will rise on the morrow; the tides will ebb & flow; that your amalgam filings will last another year; that the mortar that binds the bricks of your house will maintain their integrity. A person devoid of faith suffers psychologically. Paranoia is defined as an absence of faith & reason.
@YourUTubeMonitor I wouldn't call the belief that the sun will rise tomorrow a faith based belief. For as long as human civilization has existed Earth has not stop rotating and therefor the sun has not stopped coming up. We see absolutely no reason to believe that Earth will suddenly stop rotating and therefor it doesn't take faith to believe that it won't stop. To believe that the sun will NOT come up tomorrow; now that would require faith.
@YourUTubeMonitor I'm always trying to build my vocabulary, thanks. So much in fact that I am compelled to ask you where you found, or how you came to, this definition of paranoia. Where is paranoia defined as an absence of faith? I've been checking around and all I've been able to find are other quotes from you here on youtube in which you've written the exact same comment as the one here which I originally commented on. "Paranoia = faithlessness." How so?
@Walabinx : The paranoiac distrusts those whom he once had faith in. I shall attribute your ignorance to the fact that English is a second language to you.
@YourUTubeMonitor I think we're operating under different definitions of the word 'faith.' Faith' as I hear it most commonly invoked, is belief in the absence of evidence. This was my original point, which you seemed to have missed. Belief that the sun will come up does not require faith once one has an understanding of why the sun continues comes up; an understanding that it's Earth's rotation that causes the sun to come up and that the Earth isn't going to stop rotating any time soon.
@YourUTubeMonitor I find it somewhat ironic that you imply that I am bad at English, and yet you're the one who is on here claiming new definitions for words which are clearly inaccurate. I hold no grudge though. I just wanted an understanding of why you equated faithlessness and paranoia, and I kind of see what you're getting at now, so thanks.
Paranormal/metaphysical realities must defy Man's rationality, by their very nature as they operate outside and beyond the human definition of the present (the here-now as opposed to the here-after).
It's quite arrogant to not to believe in a GOD. I don't believe in any particular religion, but I know he's real. I've seen demonic shit, and I know theres a devil. So where there is evil, there must be good. GOD can make 2 + 2 = 6. So all you theoretical and science people can keep on trying to decipher and uncover things in life. But you will never know the truth. We are a mere speck of grain in the ocean, and there are bigger things beyond our minds above us.
@mexicanboy92840 It's quite arrogant to assume that there is a God. It's quite arrogant to assume that God can make 2 plus 2 equal 6. It's quite arrogant to say that we will never know the truth.
@mexicanboy92840 - @mexicanboy92840 - You don't see any contradiction in saying "You will never know the truth" and then saying "I know [GOD] is real"?! Bit of a double standard, no? It's funny when theists defend belief in God & decry science by saying "you think you know everything but you don't", when in actuality the precise opposite is the case. Scientists recognise there are things we DON'T know, & so want to see what they can learn, whereas theism just settles for the easy "answer"
@magic4fact You got me all wrong bro'. To understand life itself, we must prosper spiritually/religiously and scientifically. Scientist debunk anything they can't prove scientifically, and religious people believe anything there religion says. The bible is very misinterpreted, mistaking advanced technology for religious miracles. But science and religion are one in all. To understand life itself, we must conquer science and understand religion. There is no real church, just GOD.
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I beg all Atheists...PLEASE, throw away your logic and reasoning FOR ONCE and turn to God for Salvation!!! PLEASE PLEASE I just beg you so much PLEASE just pray to God because if you don't you'll go to hell and I don't want that to happen...it makes me cry to know that so many atheists are in hell right now...God doesn't want that to happen, but he does want you to BEG HIM FOR MERCY...please just do it...it's the only way to avoid the anguish and torture of hell...please
@VitalSigns1 Any being intelligent and powerful enough to create a form of life, only to demand that the life form it has created spend its time thanking the creator for its own existence, is a disgusting narcissist and not worthy of anyone's praise. If rebuking this hypothetical deity should hypothetically result in me "going to hell", then so be it. Better that than submit to the ego of such a creature. If God exists, which he almost certainly doesn't, he is a cruel and vindictive bastard.
@EddieTheDead Alright fine. When your worst fears come true and you are being eternally tortured in hell, I'm not going to feel sorry for you. I've given you a clear warning and have begged you from the depths of my heart, but you have chosen to turn the other direction. If that's what you want, there's nothing I nor God can do to stop it. But trust me, when that time comes, you'll wish you had listened to me. Make no mistake about it; there is a hell, and you should be horrified of it.
@VitalSigns1 What I should be horrified by is minds as blinkered and impervious to reason as yours apparently is. Indeed, your request to atheists to "throw away your logic and reasoning" suggests an implicit acknowledgement that your position is both illogical and unreasonable, which is one point on which I agree.
The brainwashing you were presumably subjected to from an early age has apparently blinded you to truth and rendered you incapable of reasonable thought and I am sorry for that.
@EddieTheDead The bible would suggest otherwise. God asks you to find him through your HEART, not through your mind. It is arrogant for you, a mere human, to think that you can apply your own rational to God. I have a personal relationship with God. If you admit right here and now, that you are a sinner, I'll get God to go a little easy on you. If you keep choosing to act intelligent, I will not request leniency. Read the bible like a child, and it all makes sense.
@VitalSigns1 Ok then. So by your logic, it's arrogant for you, a 'mere human', to claim to know that there is a God, because if there were it would be infinitely greater than you? Oh, but wait, you don't like logic. You like being spoonfed bullshit without question.
@Alexdurrant7 I don't claim to know God, God is sending his word through me and I'm translating it to you. That is what the holy word is all about. I don't know why you stupid atheists can't understand that. Even a child can understand it. It's amazing how scientists with such high IQs can be so stupid to throw away their entire afterlife by choosing the wrong beliefs...unless of course your IQs aren't so high afterall hahaha
@VitalSigns1 If I were to say to you: "an enormous turkey will peck you forever if you don't devote your life to the relentless search for its golden egg", what would you say? You definitely wouldn't undertake the search. It's exactly the same situation with Christianity. You're talking what sounds like (and is probably) a load of bullshit, and using a threat of equal stupidity to try and gain extra followers. You don't know what the 'right beliefs' are, so it's arrogant of you to assume you do.
@Alexdurrant7 I would say "Where is the evidence of this enormous turkey" and "Where is the holy scripture written about it?" You can't just make up random myths and equte them to the bible. The bible is historically accurate and Jesus witnessed hell for himself. It does in fact exist. Accept it.
@VitalSigns1 Saying "it does in fact exist" does nothing to further the truth of your claims. Holy scripture also proves nothing - funny how an all-powerful, all-knowing being would choose to use writing on paper, a means of recording data already prominent by that time, to convey his ideas. Where is the historical evidence for jesus witnessing hell? And if you're asking for evidence of the turkey, you'll find it acceptable for me to ask for evidence of this god you so sycophantically praise.
@VitalSigns1 Right. So you're essentially saying "I know that what is written in the bible is true, because... it says so in the Bible!" Religion is probably the most petty waste-product of philosophy. I'd be happier talking about actual philosophy than this contrived, transparent garbage. Also, ad hominem attacks are a clear sign of self-doubt.
@STFUNOWlol Then when you're being buried alive under millions of miles of rocks down deep in the earth, I won't feel sorry for you. You've had your chance. I'm here to warn you. I've even begged you from the depths of my heart, and yet you STILL refuse to believe. This is why you deserve hell. And yet atheists wonder why they go to hell...I mean...come ON
The BRAIN is not the MIND. If the BRAIN was the mind, a jackass would have been smarter than the smartest human being, because its BRAIN is bigger. The BRAIN is no more than one of the components of the MIND.
I love most of DD's ideas BUT I can't get my head around HOW consciousness could be brain cells just 'thinking' they think. I fully understand that all other aspects of consciousness are interpretations but when it comes to self awareness how could this ever be an illusion? If it's the brain cells modeling the illusion of consciousness why do we notice it? We could ACT like we notice it but we also have an internal comprehension: Yes I think therefore I am. If this IS illusion who / what has it?
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The world is a strange place. Grown, intelligent, reasonable, kind men thinking they're nothing more than a collection of neurons and molecules....denying their eternal nature. Tragic. I like Daniel Dennett, and pray he pulls an Antony Flew in his older age....but goes beyond simple deism to full-blown Christianity. Peace.
You are very unintellegent. I bet you failed all of your science classes when you were in school. Am I right or am I right? Religion is for the idiotic that don't want to accept reality. Primarily Christianity and Islam, how could someone possibly think religions that are just a few thousand years old are the correct ones. I suppose you believe all the people before Christianity are now in Hell, right?
@ShredTheGnar690 I bet you were so intelligent that when your science teacher wrote" Piltdown man is the proof of macroevolution. You evolved from a chimp, you took notes and regurgitated it on a test.
That's smart.
The Piltdown hoax was in science textbooks for almost fifty years. I love that, don't you?
@ShredTheGnar690 Making new friends for the atheistic movement? I don't believe in any god either, but how about a little courtesy towards the people who don't believe as we do? You'll never "convert" anyone by being this unpleasant. I know it can be frustrating with people who are blinkered in their beliefs in a higher power, but please try to represent our side of the argument in a more pleasant way. Maybe you'll even convince someone to read a book with new skeptical eyes?
Back in the late 90's when this came out I was more interested in Michio Kaku's exposition but I somehow ended up here today.. I wonder if this trajectory was a trend..
I'm a secularist (agnostic atheist, atheist in leaning, agnostic in claim to knowledge) but I was raised Catholic and I think it's very important for people to realize that most Catholics and most Christians in general for that matter are like you. I'm guessing you believe like Francis Collins does, in theistic evolution or something of the sorts. While I have a different hunch about what the starter was, I certainly respect Catholics like you. Great comment.
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember when I was really young (apparently a few days after I turned 13) I saw the first part of this on TV and I found it really interesting. At the time, I was a devout Christian and when Dennett started taking about Darwin I got really scared and changed the channel. The fear stuck with me and eventually I reexamined my beliefs and am now an atheist. Life changing! Thanks once again for posting!!!
@croscream No sir. I was not answering a question implicit or explicit in your last comment. I was correcting your original statement with your clarification in mind.
@croscream I never said I was correcting your clarification.
I hope you don't mind, but I clicked on the @croscream link, and I noticed your writing is a little slopping, and that you were saying a lot of people's comments were nonsensical. I'm thinking that English isn't your fist language, and you're confused, being combative is how you're compensating.
I don't think I'm going to be doing anymore correcting--you'll have to go somewhere else for a tutorial.
@crambo0349 alot of people dont have the courage to truley examine there deeply held beliefs and realize a mistake congratulations on being able to so such its very admirable in my opinion.
Great now I have to scour youtube for part 2, meh.
Saytahne666 2 weeks ago
The "Big Thinkers" can't even show why they think objects made or refined what they are.
JungleJargon 2 weeks ago
The memes made me believe Dennett
helpmetony 2 weeks ago
I can't believe how many of you missed Dennett's point. Darwin's idea of evolution allied with the likely beginning of life, and Turing's musings on AI leads to a conclusion that we are a product of endless reproduction, starting from a process repeated umpteen times since the first DNA, cell, whatever we started with. The brain/mind is not special, it is not consciousness itself in a metaphysical denotion, it is an organ other life does not possess, yet are these other organisms dead? The mind
djfw666 2 months ago
Whoa, that video is absolutely mind-blowing! A soul made from machines.
PapaWilk 3 months ago
His theory is based on a misquotation of Descartes. Cogito ergo sum is not in the meditations.
Bearddman9 4 months ago
Yes descartes bullshit THank you danny dennett!!!
natmanprime 5 months ago
I can prove the existence of God and religion to anyone in less than a month if they are with me 1 on1. Inbox me if you may want
qaipak1 5 months ago
@qaipak1
Psst no thanks. We already heard the look at the trees logic. It doesn't work.
Wordlaw12 4 months ago
I wonder what Dennett thinks of Martin Heidegger?
TheDavid2222 7 months ago
He may have failed science class, but I bet you failed philosophy. Am I right or am I right?
tomkingsbridge 7 months ago
how do we know that consciousness can only exist in biological form? what if consciousness can exist in space in nebulas? our bodies at atomic scale behave like plasma. everything in the universe seem to exist in spirals. what's the difference between twisting DNA and tornadoes? why do we have to divide the universe into many realities each seen differently? maybe there is only one code with many differences but with a repetition of sameness.
coldarc 8 months ago
@coldarc The difference between DNA and a tornado is that the particles that make DNA are in a rigid and unchanging configuration while the particles that make (more like caught in) a tornado are fluid and do not stay in same position.
The shape of the two objects is not all that matters about the objects. The constituents of the objects are as important as the objects themselves.
sexyloser 3 months ago
on computers information can be wirelessly transfered. if consciousness is a program why does it have to come from a machine, why not another program transmitted separated from that machine? maybe the machine is not a machine but a program that emulate machine like behavior? have people ever tried Virtual PC inside a PC? the universe might be just like that. a program that simulate a machine that simulate a program that simulate a machine indefinitely?
coldarc 8 months ago
I do like Dennett, but a fan of his theories of consciousness. Go back to making toys in the North Pole DENNETT!
dancingwithcalvin 8 months ago
He even speaks Italian. Quite fluently too!
Giby86 8 months ago
@saynotodarwin lol you're a fucking satirical troll.
Gluumer 8 months ago
he's not a big thinker, hes a little kitten when it comes to these questions.
warLock21X 8 months ago
I don't agree with Dennet on alot of his philosophical standpoints, but he is an interesting and smart man. He's just stuck in a mundane way of thinking about consciousness.
Gluumer 8 months ago
@saynotodarwin Brother, shut up. You sound like an idiot. You can say read your bible over and over but it won't change science. You can say the scientists are lying, and it still won't change science. You can say morons like Kent Hovind have disproved the evolution theory, and guess what? It still won't change science.
Gluumer 8 months ago
@saynotodarwin The problem with so-called christians in this country is that what they believe is almost totally predicated on whether or not someone else agrees with them. It's a great way of obscuring doubt, which makes this whole debate about power.
- And don't call me Boy.
SousSherpa 8 months ago
@CambridgeHeights- I *have* seen lots of his other work and it is exceptionally clearly reasoned.
@Derman- Quantum physics doesn't show 'all is one', nor does Richard Dawkins recognise 'invisible connections'
@cfarinho1- yes, unintelligent things can be intelligible
@theocean1973- Do rocks exist? they don't think. Does a chess player exist more when he is thinking hard about a move, than when he goes fishing and spaces out?
Tom45931 10 months ago
@Tom45931 Dennett - confidant but wrong
fishybishbash 9 months ago
@fishybishbash Fishybishbash-cant spell confident
DirtyMikeballin 9 months ago
@DirtyMikeballin No,Dennett is a confidant of many people ahahaaaa fuck off smart arse
fishybishbash 9 months ago
Dennett is not a big thinker. He's an idiotic thinker. It doesn't show in this video, but you should see some of his other work. Like how free will and determinism are compatible. Yikes
CambridgeHeights 10 months ago
do you have any more recordings of tech tv?
plutoend99 10 months ago
nice..
beverlypress 10 months ago
I myself am not limited by religious ideology. Dan Dennet still gets on my nerves. Even Richard Dawkins recognizes the invisible connections we all have to everything else. Quantum physics shows clearly, all is one. Though we could never hope to understand the quantum with our current brain. For such an intellect, he should know that. It seems, to me, he is as limited by ego as is a religious person.
derman077 11 months ago
i enjoyed watching this video very much. My only complaint is somebody has put some annoying music over the top which i found quite distracting.
bonnie43uk 11 months ago
Why is "I think therefore I am" wrong? Just wondering, Dennett doesn't explain why.
theocean1973 1 year ago
I have a friend who wants to major in philosophy. Unfortunately, I don't think he knows anything about philosophy which makes him a huge headache to talk to sometimes. He likes to act smart and philosophical, which leads him to argue for the sake of argument and take the most absurd and asinine positions against me. I have no idea how to introduce him to real philosophy and real philosophers. He doesn't seem interested in listening to them or reading their books. /headdesk
Klazzt 1 year ago
@Klazzt
Give him a link to this website: lesswrong (DOT) com
It should help if he reads it. You might find it interesting ass well. + check out the twelve virtues of rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I had the same problem as him before I stumbled across Eliezer and lesswrong.
13eyond13irthday030 1 year ago
I prefer reading Dennet than listening to him. Occasionally I squint as I listen, which I don't like doing. Must just be hard for him to speak through his big beard. His speech is often garbled - to me at least.
Great man, awesome philosopher, it's fun to live in the same period as great thinkers like Dennet. More of us should appreciate it more often. Only in such a way as to not boost their egos. o.O Celebrity culture blows. =D
UnitedKingdomify 1 year ago
This sort of boggles me. Do people actually not know what the meaning of life is?
The reason the question is so difficult is that it's worded backwards. The universe, by far and large, is unconscious and does not ascribe meaning. It is LIFE that gives meaning to the universe, and YOU decide the meaning of YOUR life.
However, if he was referring to the ultimate answer as to why the universe is here at all, nobody knows that yet...except theists.
CrazySatanicInfidel 1 year ago
— Sixteen slaves maketh not for living comfortably in any manse worth sacrificing dormant habits for. I believe that it was Captains Kangaroo & Crunch who replaced the wretched Paul Shannon's widow as executor of the Adventure Time estate. Seventeen falls provideth not for shelves that have yet to be screwed into lath-boards you crazy nigger-lover!!! Giving up murder is murderously-hard for anyone who enjoys the act of murder.
YourUTubeMonitor 1 year ago
A citizen's sacred duty is to kill murderers.
YourUTubeMonitor 1 year ago
One must have faith in all things physical as faith is a necessity in the planning of every deliberate action. One must have faith that the sun will rise on the morrow; the tides will ebb & flow; that your amalgam filings will last another year; that the mortar that binds the bricks of your house will maintain their integrity. A person devoid of faith suffers psychologically. Paranoia is defined as an absence of faith & reason.
YourUTubeMonitor 1 year ago
@YourUTubeMonitor I wouldn't call the belief that the sun will rise tomorrow a faith based belief. For as long as human civilization has existed Earth has not stop rotating and therefor the sun has not stopped coming up. We see absolutely no reason to believe that Earth will suddenly stop rotating and therefor it doesn't take faith to believe that it won't stop. To believe that the sun will NOT come up tomorrow; now that would require faith.
Walabinx 1 year ago
All things require faith. Paranoia = faithlessness. Spend time building your vocabulary.
YourUTubeMonitor 1 year ago
@YourUTubeMonitor I'm always trying to build my vocabulary, thanks. So much in fact that I am compelled to ask you where you found, or how you came to, this definition of paranoia. Where is paranoia defined as an absence of faith? I've been checking around and all I've been able to find are other quotes from you here on youtube in which you've written the exact same comment as the one here which I originally commented on. "Paranoia = faithlessness." How so?
Walabinx 1 year ago
@Walabinx : The paranoiac distrusts those whom he once had faith in. I shall attribute your ignorance to the fact that English is a second language to you.
YourUTubeMonitor 1 year ago
@YourUTubeMonitor I think we're operating under different definitions of the word 'faith.' Faith' as I hear it most commonly invoked, is belief in the absence of evidence. This was my original point, which you seemed to have missed. Belief that the sun will come up does not require faith once one has an understanding of why the sun continues comes up; an understanding that it's Earth's rotation that causes the sun to come up and that the Earth isn't going to stop rotating any time soon.
Walabinx 1 year ago
@YourUTubeMonitor I find it somewhat ironic that you imply that I am bad at English, and yet you're the one who is on here claiming new definitions for words which are clearly inaccurate. I hold no grudge though. I just wanted an understanding of why you equated faithlessness and paranoia, and I kind of see what you're getting at now, so thanks.
Walabinx 1 year ago
Paranormal/metaphysical realities must defy Man's rationality, by their very nature as they operate outside and beyond the human definition of the present (the here-now as opposed to the here-after).
YourUTubeMonitor 1 year ago
this is a pholosopher and a big thinker?
lol
uoitofsogroj 1 year ago
It's quite arrogant to not to believe in a GOD. I don't believe in any particular religion, but I know he's real. I've seen demonic shit, and I know theres a devil. So where there is evil, there must be good. GOD can make 2 + 2 = 6. So all you theoretical and science people can keep on trying to decipher and uncover things in life. But you will never know the truth. We are a mere speck of grain in the ocean, and there are bigger things beyond our minds above us.
mexicanboy92840 1 year ago
@mexicanboy92840 It's quite arrogant to assume that there is a God. It's quite arrogant to assume that God can make 2 plus 2 equal 6. It's quite arrogant to say that we will never know the truth.
Xeper218 1 year ago
@Xeper218 It's quite arrogant that your mom's a man.
mexicanboy92840 1 year ago
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@mexicanboy92840 Ahahahaha, your fucking pathetic and retarded. So you know that a Devil is real? HAHAHAHAHAHA. Dumbass lol
Xeper218 1 year ago
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@mexicanboy92840 No wonder you are a Mexican!
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magic4fact 1 year ago
@mexicanboy92840 - @mexicanboy92840 - You don't see any contradiction in saying "You will never know the truth" and then saying "I know [GOD] is real"?! Bit of a double standard, no? It's funny when theists defend belief in God & decry science by saying "you think you know everything but you don't", when in actuality the precise opposite is the case. Scientists recognise there are things we DON'T know, & so want to see what they can learn, whereas theism just settles for the easy "answer"
magic4fact 1 year ago
@magic4fact You got me all wrong bro'. To understand life itself, we must prosper spiritually/religiously and scientifically. Scientist debunk anything they can't prove scientifically, and religious people believe anything there religion says. The bible is very misinterpreted, mistaking advanced technology for religious miracles. But science and religion are one in all. To understand life itself, we must conquer science and understand religion. There is no real church, just GOD.
mexicanboy92840 1 year ago
get retired dude
make room for others
such a campus rat
8 to 4 work bs nothing new
he should be president of the honor society
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graywackeknifebdr 1 year ago
Dan Dennett sure does like taking the mechanical stance.
BoStevoD 1 year ago
Dan Dennett is the man. He's SO smart, and he is taking on stuff that almost every human that ever lived thought were unanswerable questions.
It's minds like this that allow us to see life and reality in ways we never thought possible.
STFUNOWlol 1 year ago
@STFUNOWlol he is very humble isn't he? literally NO ego
Freethinker12341 1 year ago
God exists!!!
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
I beg all Atheists...PLEASE, throw away your logic and reasoning FOR ONCE and turn to God for Salvation!!! PLEASE PLEASE I just beg you so much PLEASE just pray to God because if you don't you'll go to hell and I don't want that to happen...it makes me cry to know that so many atheists are in hell right now...God doesn't want that to happen, but he does want you to BEG HIM FOR MERCY...please just do it...it's the only way to avoid the anguish and torture of hell...please
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 Any being intelligent and powerful enough to create a form of life, only to demand that the life form it has created spend its time thanking the creator for its own existence, is a disgusting narcissist and not worthy of anyone's praise. If rebuking this hypothetical deity should hypothetically result in me "going to hell", then so be it. Better that than submit to the ego of such a creature. If God exists, which he almost certainly doesn't, he is a cruel and vindictive bastard.
EddieTheDead 1 year ago 2
@EddieTheDead Alright fine. When your worst fears come true and you are being eternally tortured in hell, I'm not going to feel sorry for you. I've given you a clear warning and have begged you from the depths of my heart, but you have chosen to turn the other direction. If that's what you want, there's nothing I nor God can do to stop it. But trust me, when that time comes, you'll wish you had listened to me. Make no mistake about it; there is a hell, and you should be horrified of it.
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 What I should be horrified by is minds as blinkered and impervious to reason as yours apparently is. Indeed, your request to atheists to "throw away your logic and reasoning" suggests an implicit acknowledgement that your position is both illogical and unreasonable, which is one point on which I agree.
The brainwashing you were presumably subjected to from an early age has apparently blinded you to truth and rendered you incapable of reasonable thought and I am sorry for that.
EddieTheDead 1 year ago
@EddieTheDead The bible would suggest otherwise. God asks you to find him through your HEART, not through your mind. It is arrogant for you, a mere human, to think that you can apply your own rational to God. I have a personal relationship with God. If you admit right here and now, that you are a sinner, I'll get God to go a little easy on you. If you keep choosing to act intelligent, I will not request leniency. Read the bible like a child, and it all makes sense.
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 Ok then. So by your logic, it's arrogant for you, a 'mere human', to claim to know that there is a God, because if there were it would be infinitely greater than you? Oh, but wait, you don't like logic. You like being spoonfed bullshit without question.
Alexdurrant7 1 year ago
@Alexdurrant7 I don't claim to know God, God is sending his word through me and I'm translating it to you. That is what the holy word is all about. I don't know why you stupid atheists can't understand that. Even a child can understand it. It's amazing how scientists with such high IQs can be so stupid to throw away their entire afterlife by choosing the wrong beliefs...unless of course your IQs aren't so high afterall hahaha
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 If I were to say to you: "an enormous turkey will peck you forever if you don't devote your life to the relentless search for its golden egg", what would you say? You definitely wouldn't undertake the search. It's exactly the same situation with Christianity. You're talking what sounds like (and is probably) a load of bullshit, and using a threat of equal stupidity to try and gain extra followers. You don't know what the 'right beliefs' are, so it's arrogant of you to assume you do.
Alexdurrant7 1 year ago
@Alexdurrant7 I would say "Where is the evidence of this enormous turkey" and "Where is the holy scripture written about it?" You can't just make up random myths and equte them to the bible. The bible is historically accurate and Jesus witnessed hell for himself. It does in fact exist. Accept it.
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 Saying "it does in fact exist" does nothing to further the truth of your claims. Holy scripture also proves nothing - funny how an all-powerful, all-knowing being would choose to use writing on paper, a means of recording data already prominent by that time, to convey his ideas. Where is the historical evidence for jesus witnessing hell? And if you're asking for evidence of the turkey, you'll find it acceptable for me to ask for evidence of this god you so sycophantically praise.
Alexdurrant7 1 year ago
@Alexdurrant7 The evidence is the bible. He wrote it on paper because we didn't have computers back then. Wow you must be retarded or something.
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 Right. So you're essentially saying "I know that what is written in the bible is true, because... it says so in the Bible!" Religion is probably the most petty waste-product of philosophy. I'd be happier talking about actual philosophy than this contrived, transparent garbage. Also, ad hominem attacks are a clear sign of self-doubt.
Alexdurrant7 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 "beg all Atheists...PLEASE, throw away your logic and reasoning FOR ONCE"
Never.
STFUNOWlol 1 year ago
@STFUNOWlol Then when you're being buried alive under millions of miles of rocks down deep in the earth, I won't feel sorry for you. You've had your chance. I'm here to warn you. I've even begged you from the depths of my heart, and yet you STILL refuse to believe. This is why you deserve hell. And yet atheists wonder why they go to hell...I mean...come ON
VitalSigns1 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 : Yeah, worse than molesting Children, worse than committing genocide, worse than torture and rape - not believing weird old stories!
I TOTALLY deserve the worst punishment imaginable!
P.S. - God loves me.
P.S.S - Hell is physically located in the Earth?
STFUNOWlol 1 year ago
@VitalSigns1 Actually mate, I don't think atheists go to hell.
juikm 1 year ago
The BRAIN is not the MIND. If the BRAIN was the mind, a jackass would have been smarter than the smartest human being, because its BRAIN is bigger. The BRAIN is no more than one of the components of the MIND.
kennydeeedeee 1 year ago
Clearly this is a load of rubbish... The Blake-Feyerabend Hypothesis proves creativity is the foundation of knowledge!
lightofdawn87 1 year ago
I love you Daniel Dennet, I really do, you're the true doctor here to treat thos who suffer their own intelligence.
Dozedmonkey 1 year ago
I wish Dan Dennett was my professor. I really do.
soul0luos 1 year ago
I love most of DD's ideas BUT I can't get my head around HOW consciousness could be brain cells just 'thinking' they think. I fully understand that all other aspects of consciousness are interpretations but when it comes to self awareness how could this ever be an illusion? If it's the brain cells modeling the illusion of consciousness why do we notice it? We could ACT like we notice it but we also have an internal comprehension: Yes I think therefore I am. If this IS illusion who / what has it?
sitemountain 1 year ago
woot woot Dennett is the secular Santa!!
keitaro202 1 year ago
"Sì, abbiamo un'anima. Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot "Yes, we have a soul, but its made of lots of tiny robots."
amazing
Scofield0085 1 year ago
The love Santa
ArtariusRex 1 year ago
I have a thing for philosophers with great facial hair.. ;)
Ca2roline 1 year ago
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The world is a strange place. Grown, intelligent, reasonable, kind men thinking they're nothing more than a collection of neurons and molecules....denying their eternal nature. Tragic. I like Daniel Dennett, and pray he pulls an Antony Flew in his older age....but goes beyond simple deism to full-blown Christianity. Peace.
Sweet92Sue 2 years ago
You are very unintellegent. I bet you failed all of your science classes when you were in school. Am I right or am I right? Religion is for the idiotic that don't want to accept reality. Primarily Christianity and Islam, how could someone possibly think religions that are just a few thousand years old are the correct ones. I suppose you believe all the people before Christianity are now in Hell, right?
ShredTheGnar690 2 years ago 2
When smearing others' intelligence, it's helpful to spell INTELLIGENT correctly.
Oh, and I got a 31 on the ACT in science in high school. Thanks for asking, though. :)
Sweet92Sue 2 years ago
@ShredTheGnar690 I bet you were so intelligent that when your science teacher wrote" Piltdown man is the proof of macroevolution. You evolved from a chimp, you took notes and regurgitated it on a test.
That's smart.
The Piltdown hoax was in science textbooks for almost fifty years. I love that, don't you?
jjvescovi11 7 months ago
@ShredTheGnar690 Read the Divine Comedy and you will get your answer
topgun989cc 6 months ago
@ShredTheGnar690 Making new friends for the atheistic movement? I don't believe in any god either, but how about a little courtesy towards the people who don't believe as we do? You'll never "convert" anyone by being this unpleasant. I know it can be frustrating with people who are blinkered in their beliefs in a higher power, but please try to represent our side of the argument in a more pleasant way. Maybe you'll even convince someone to read a book with new skeptical eyes?
iLEZtube 6 months ago
This is magnificent :)
cyaninkblot 2 years ago
Thanks for uploading this!
levvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv 2 years ago
Whoaaa Dan Dennett topless--never thought I'd see that!
redetrigan 2 years ago 5
Back in the late 90's when this came out I was more interested in Michio Kaku's exposition but I somehow ended up here today.. I wonder if this trajectory was a trend..
sidiqmk 2 years ago
Uhhh don't you mean "teach prayer rather than evolution"? You can remove your comment if it was a mistake
(it seems that it was)
DSBrekus 2 years ago
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SousSherpa 2 years ago 47
@SousSherpa
I'm a secularist (agnostic atheist, atheist in leaning, agnostic in claim to knowledge) but I was raised Catholic and I think it's very important for people to realize that most Catholics and most Christians in general for that matter are like you. I'm guessing you believe like Francis Collins does, in theistic evolution or something of the sorts. While I have a different hunch about what the starter was, I certainly respect Catholics like you. Great comment.
BloggerMusicMan 1 year ago
I think this is the best Dennet video on YouTube. Good work uploading it, man.
IRBucephalus 2 years ago 5
This might just be the greatest thing I've ever come across on YouTube. Haha.
Thanks so much for the upload! :-)
LennyBound 2 years ago 11
@LennyBound me too, and thanks lenny for mirroring the vid.
Nades129 2 years ago 3
Thank you so much for posting this. I remember when I was really young (apparently a few days after I turned 13) I saw the first part of this on TV and I found it really interesting. At the time, I was a devout Christian and when Dennett started taking about Darwin I got really scared and changed the channel. The fear stuck with me and eventually I reexamined my beliefs and am now an atheist. Life changing! Thanks once again for posting!!!
crambo0349 2 years ago 110
@crambo0349
The same happened when i heared Hitler speak for the first time.
croscream 1 year ago
@croscream If Hitler makes you slowly reexamine your beliefs, then more power to him.
crambo0349 1 year ago
@crambo0349
No, i mean i was first scared of him, but then i learned to embrace nazi's and the glories of the white race.
croscream 1 year ago
@croscream I see, but I don't think it worked out like that for many people. From what I understand, Hitler exploited preexisting tensions.
crambo0349 1 year ago
@crambo0349
That's a meaningless awnser, because i was not begging for an awnser nor does your awnser respond to anything inherently found within my own awnser.
croscream 1 year ago
@croscream No sir. I was not answering a question implicit or explicit in your last comment. I was correcting your original statement with your clarification in mind.
crambo0349 1 year ago
@crambo0349
Nope, i am not seeing how you are correcting my clarification, just meaningless jiberish.
croscream 1 year ago
@croscream I never said I was correcting your clarification.
I hope you don't mind, but I clicked on the @croscream link, and I noticed your writing is a little slopping, and that you were saying a lot of people's comments were nonsensical. I'm thinking that English isn't your fist language, and you're confused, being combative is how you're compensating.
I don't think I'm going to be doing anymore correcting--you'll have to go somewhere else for a tutorial.
crambo0349 1 year ago
@crambo0349
What does that even mean ''correcting your original statement with your clarification in mind. '' i would like to know.
Don't play the feeling and emotions card.
croscream 1 year ago
@crambo0349 alot of people dont have the courage to truley examine there deeply held beliefs and realize a mistake congratulations on being able to so such its very admirable in my opinion.
tupacalypse88 1 year ago
@crambo0349 Powerful.
a300pilotster 1 year ago
@crambo0349 agnosticism or deism (not to be confiussed with theism) is the best choice
mau571 1 year ago
This guy is my hero !
supergopi 2 years ago 4
mine too!
sammcalpine 2 years ago 4