Dennett on Spirituality

These clips are taken from the documentary film "Mystical Brain" which can be viewed in its entirety at:
http://nfb.ca/film/mystical_brain/

The film focuses on a team from the University of Montreal who seek to understand the neurobiological basis for religious experiences by performing brain scans while individuals meditate and pray.

More info on Daniel Dennett can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Neurophilosophy
• God on the Brain
• Neurotheology
• Neuroscience
• Mysticism
• Spirituality
• Soul
• Materialism
• Spirit
• Humility

[imbalancingact]

LennyBound, I say this every time, but YOU ARE THE BEST. Thanks for continuing to find the best stuff and post it.

[LennyBound]

Glad to hear you liked it. I'll keep posting if you keep watching.

[TodaysThought]

MUhaaaaa, LOL. The thumbs down with you people is amazing and funny as shit. Not very open minded are we. Your like a bunch of emotional children.

neurochem is the only one who cared to make a point. I didn't say robots have minds, I said they come from minds. I'm not big into ID but it is a good question. I have read this guys books and watched the videos, his position is weak.

And to the host, why don't you disable thimbs down on videos like this, it makes for more interesting discussion.

[LennyBound]

Love it or hate it, comment voting is part of the YouTube experience. None of my videos have ever had it disabled and probably never will.

[Nykytyne2]

He plays the organ???? I knew he was awesome!!!

[LennyBound]

I thought that was pretty awesome as well. However, to be honest, I was a little disappointed when I saw he didn't have a full beard when he was three.

[beyondabilities1212]

so this is what santa does on his free time....

[zatoichiable]

zombie cant play soulful music. mechanical, yes.

[livingdeadgrl18]

I completely agree.

[ZF1000]

Laughed when he said 'each one of them is as stupid as can be.' Brilliant explanation of spirituality - a real free thinker.

[Tartersauce101]

@Happyascanbe1

"postulating a creator of the entire universe who gives a damn about you"

i did no such thing.

[Happyascanbe1]

@Tartersauce101

Could you please be a bit more specific as to how exactly is postulating a Creator of the entire Universe who gives a damn about you such a humble thing to do?

[Tartersauce101]

@fishybishbash

yah, he has an obvious agenda...an obsession it would seem, that a good shrink would need to figure out the motives pushing his need to so prematurely claim all as no more than pulleys and levers.

whats really funny to me, is that the definition of spirituality he gives at the end is what almost any religious (catholic, protestant, muslim etc) leader would give you.

"life/existence is a mystery we do not understand...so be humble and go through god/science"

[PapaWilk]

Wonderful upload! I liked the Dennett on Determinism clip too, especially the music it was set to!

[Nomida2]

@LennyBound LMAO

oh, and what imbalancingact said :D

[cymbeli]

@LennyBound Well I appreciate your unbounded channel. This is what truth seeking is about so thanks....and of course thanks for this lovely video.

[fishybishbash]

'it isn't immaterial, its an organisation of cells'. Thats his opinion. At that point, he is talking about that which has not been proved. The 'soul' is a romantic notion, born of ages. Consciousness isn't. Its the nub of the 'problem'.