Philosophy of Mind Part 1

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This is an introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. Here we perform an interactive experiment to get viewers thinking.

References:

Berkley, George. Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues. Oxford Paperbacks, 2009. London
Descartes, Rene. Meditations on First Philosophy. Hackett Publishing Company, 1993. Indianapolis. Third Edition
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. plato.stanford.edu/
Watson, Burton (translator). (1968). The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. New York: Columbia University Press.

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[leporidus]

»We can't divide a mind?« (5:15) — oh yes, we can, and we have. By accident, leading to brain injuries, and also deliberately by lobotomy.

Vilayanur S. (»V.S.«) Ramachandran gave some mindblowing talks about his research on this, some of which you can find here on YouTube.

It would be foolish to ignore the modern research on psychology and neurology.

[bubbamickmac]

leporidus,

please see my prevoius comment. I made it clear this is not what I know. I'm a biology major, so I know you could divide a mind. thanks ;)

cheers,

king mike

[NotWhollySane]

Actually you can divide a mind. There are people out there who have had the right side of the brain cut off from the left side of the brain. Experiments have shown that at that point there are two minds inside one body.

[bubbamickmac]

Yes, but the idea of dividing a mind not being possible was considered in the 1600's, at the time where Descartes was writing "Meditations." In fact, "The Stuff of Thought," by Steven Pinker, actually demonstrates some experiments with people without one half of their brain performing normal functions. We know we can divide a mind, but with all the scientific evidence we have today which contradicts this position, could we still think about it?

thanks and cheers ;)

-king mike

[ThaigerDon]

@StephenWebb1980 you wanna think? here's some food for thought: i am the future communicating with the past. not only so, we communicate without even knowing each other personally. therefore, i am a future thought communicating with your past thoughts via a present medium that links our thoughts together. here's one for the future - as soon as i hit "post"... this comment i am making will become a past thought in this present medium, called youtube. life is more magical than we give credit for.

[estegy]

@Obito313

i want to know the same thing and i was sure that some one asked the same question

it is just wonderful :)

[SittingMooseShaman]

...I'm simply a cranky, much-pained & slo-o-o-wly dyin' old man who lay in a med-bed unable to do much of...anything. A, "perfect candidate for to be a philosopher" -a Greek may quip back in Aristotles' time. Now, here on, U Toob, 'we' are fairly of, "one mind"(yet individual views) as concerning our hosts' topic: Though we are physically, many brains... Then after we leave the thread...this, "one-mind" separates & then resumes the more distinct characteristics of each persons' state of being...

[asanuman]

@NotWhollySane dividing the mind is not equivalent to dividing the brain it two points.

[Obito313]

can some one tell me the name of this song D:

[mentalphysicalism]

Perhaps the mind and brains are one(monism) but when we perceive the

mind/brain thru our ourter senses we call it brain and when we perceive it from

within we call it mind. Outer is physical and inner is mental. The mind does not

control the brain and the brain does not control the mind as mind and brain are

different perceptions not unlike sound and sight are different perceptions of one

event.

[soldatheero]

@bubbamickmac the mind is indivisible because the mind, being immaterial does not have physical properties. Space size and mass are descriptions that simply cannot apply to the immaterial mind but only to the physical. To say you can "divide" the mind is like saying you can weigh the colour red. We can however divide the brain and cause tremendous confusion in the mind as well as disrupt the continuum of consciousness that is occuring within the mind.

The secret is the mind causes the brain.

[JohananRaatz]

@leporidus "»We can't divide a mind?« (5:15) — oh yes, we can, and we have. By accident, leading to brain injuries, and also deliberately by lobotomy."

Ok, more specifically we can't divide a mind into anything that isn't also a mind. A schizophrenic individual has a divided mind but they are both minds.

The point being is that you can't divide "I"ness or for that matter phenomenality into anything that is not mental or phenomenal in nature.

[scientificmadness]

Well is there a difference between mind and brain?

[Dopeamiine]

I believe that people take the dividing of the mind out of context. Biologically the mind IS 1 with the body. It is a organ that function no different than any other organ, it does it's intended job BIOLOGICALLY in the physical word. You can not see thinking you can not cut thinking yet thinking exist so there for thinking is a lot more than physical interactions with the world around us. If u divide your thoughts in half u will not be capable of functioning in the world around us.

[SmashThatRecord]

My mind controls my movements, if I want to lift my right hand, it is my mind that is directing that action. If I want to sit in this chair, my mind is what made that happen. My mind and my body are linked, but without my mind, my body would be nothing.