Daniel Dennett - Harvard Distinguished Lecture Series - P2

Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior - 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series

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[lonewolfmtnz]

audio 'quality' FKN sucks

[Entropy56]

analog vinyl lp records sound better than digital cds.

[ch3ckm8]

Lmao at these two nerds arguing below me. I have to agree that Absolute wisdom is theoretically possible. And we humans call ''it'' God. So Stop arguing and trying to sound all smart because all of us know very little about our universe (or multiverse). In the end, no matter how much we try, we are all still a bunch of idiots.

[givehope2lives]

@PavelSTL We'll have to agree to disagree then :) I can not debate with you on YT, there are to many things to write between you and I. My final statment is that absolutes are only theoretical, and if there is one absolute there is another. you can not ave a minimum w/o a maximum, you can not have light without dark, you can not have positive without negative. Everything has an opposite. Yin Yang. If there is a begining there is an end. Otherwise it is a cycle where no absolutes exist. Take care

[PavelSTL]

@givehope2lives Even theoretically, anything that can be modeled with a simple function like y=x^2 (parabola) has an absolute minimum, but NO absolute maximum.  "Absolute hot" is precisely what I meant by " you can define the other side as whatever you want", but whether such definition has any utility is another matter. While "Absolute hot" does make some sense from the THEORETICAL standpoint, "Absolute Wisdom" does NOT. It's an incoherent concept.

[givehope2lives]

@PavelSTL Look up absolute hot in wikipedia both are theoretical but still absolute

[givehope2lives]

Absolute zero is only theoretical, Absolute hot is too. neither of these have been acheived but both are theoretically possible.

[givehope2lives]

Let me try and clarify myself. We measure tempature as degrees on a scale. There needs to be a refrence point for it to be a scale. That means a begining and an end, or absolutes. Absolutes are only for theoretical, in reality there are no absolutes. So as for theoretical there are absolutes on both ends, but in reality there are no absolutes on either end. On a scale of measuring there has to be a begining and an end. otherwise it is a cycle. just my opinion

[PavelSTL]

@givehope2lives Sorry, but that makes no sense again. Temperature is an intensive property, a statistical average of the kinetic energy, which means it has nothing to do with "all the energy in the universe" whatsoever. Absolute zero is the lack of kinetic energy of some particles in question. There's nothing absolute on the other side of the spectrum for these particles. I mean you can define the other side as whatever you want, but such definition will be totally useless and uninteresting.

[givehope2lives]

it's all theoretical, but again half of science is all theoretical. And if you don't think the universe can be compressed to do this, just ask scientists who believe in the big bang theory :)