Daniel Dennett's brain gets removed!! Part 1

I'm SOOO happy to see this again...!!! Had the tape about 10-15 years ago... and gave it (stupidly) to an ex-gf... thank you ...!!

Thanks for posting this, I was about to upload it myself, than I found it:)

> Ok that is an interesting idea. But how do you go about verifying it?

Forgot to replay this, and it's important. Indeed I stated I "like" this monistic idea. But I dunno if it's true. Technically I keep on being an agnostic with this liking, fascination, to Advaita Vedanta type of philosophy

That is kind of where I stand as well. I am atheist with respect to most religions in the world. With respect to Hinduism, I am mostly agnostic. Hinduism is a big package with its share of moral values, social science, real science, pseudo science and superstition. The problem is it has never been objectively studied. The British colonialists and Christian missionaries only wanted to know enough to denounce it; believers only enough to follow. Indology as a study is still its infancy.

> Indology as a study is still its infancy

That would be fascinating. When you ask a child what he will do when grown up, he usually wants become cop, scientist, doctor. When I was 5 y.o. my answer was "the Indian guru". I'm serious, that was my idea. The fact is that nobody in my family had any interest in these things. I dunno why and how I thought of that. Prolly tv. I'll visit India a day. Maybe I'll get enlightened and I will really become a guru one day. I'll let you know :)

If you like Indian philosophy, I would reccomend being an Indologist rather than an 'Indian Guru'. One Indologist who I would reccomend is Koenraad Elst, he is Belgian and in my opinion very objective. But in India, you invoke controversy by being objective. So some people try to label him as a fundamentalist. There is this pressure to be politically correct in these matters, it compromises on intellectual honesty. Then of course there are those with hidden agendas trying to confuse the issue.

Thank you 82abhilash. I really appreciate your advise. I've just opened Elst's website now.

And yes, Indians are no different. Theologians may have sophisticated concept, but the common man does not and as far as he or she is concerned he need not.

And that is why I do not want to use the word 'God' because using it differently only confuses the issue.

It's right. This is the reason I use the world only with those I guess they can understand. Otherwise if asked about my ideas I simply state that I'm an agnostic non-religious guy.