Descartes Mind-Body Dualism

What is the human mind, and how does it differ from our brain? According to Rene Descartes, the mind and the physical world are completely separate. Let’s look at his theory and his arguments.
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00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Substance dualism
03:45 - What am I?
05:53 - The argument from doubt
09:19 - The argument from simplicity
13:16 - The Argument from Clear and Distinct Understanding
15:28 - The Zombie argument
16:29 - Modern arguments for substance dualism
18:14 - The problem of interaction
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  • @delec9665
    @delec966524 күн бұрын

    Hi ! I’ve been interested in logic in quite a time and I’ve been wanting to dive deeper for a while. I’ve tried to find logic classification/taxonomy but helplessly. The best I found was a list of logics on the outline of logic Wikipedia page, but I struggle making sense out of that. Could make a video of that subject please 🙏🙏🙏

  • @AtticPhilosophy

    @AtticPhilosophy

    23 күн бұрын

    Hi! If you're starting out in logic, you don't want to worry about lots of different logics. Start with classical propositional logic. Use a good modern textbook to guide you - best online option is ForAllX: forallx.openlogicproject.org

  • @Contribute_TakeCare_Learn_Play
    @Contribute_TakeCare_Learn_PlayАй бұрын

    I'm sorry to go completely off-topic. I don't have social media and I tried to find an email address to contact you. I didn't find one. Could you consider making a video (which as far as I found does not exist yet anywhere properly) of chat gpt / different versions vs Gemini different versions or any other such potentially better AI and if they can detect properly logical fallacies. (As of now it seems they can't. But I didn't try the paid versions) So for example making the AI give a test of 20 statement/arguments that are to have some fallacy in it (a list for which fallacies that can be given to it in the instruction) leaving open the answer for us to give it back to it and to see if it correctly replies whether our answers are correct. Basically I'm dreaming of a self study AI general tutor/study help

  • @dominiks5068
    @dominiks5068Ай бұрын

    I find that "if I had a different body I'd obviously be a different person" mentality very strange and I think one reason why people think like that is because they are constantly bombarded by Physicalism in academia. Whenever laypeople (who haven't got the slightest idea what "Physicalism" means) dream of being in the body a sheep, they say "What a strange dream! Tonight I dreamt I was [in the body of] a sheep!" and not "What a strange dream! Tonight I dreamt I was someone else than I actually am!". But still, even under the academic hegemony of Physicalism, most philosophers - according to the latest PhilSurvey - think that our body is irrelevant to personal identity, so the Cartesian intuition seems to be very widespread, even among people who grew up with Physicalism

  • @dmitriy4708

    @dmitriy4708

    Ай бұрын

    If the sheep brain could support the same neural networks as human brain - why not? Physicalism does not necessarily say that brain and mind are identical, mind is a process in the brain, so having a different "bodysuit" for the same mind is not paradoxical. We cannot dream we are somebody else inside because of our self-identification, it does not mean I am the same person I was 20 years ago, I am entirely different now. Only memories and similar general traits tie me to the past me 20 year ago, nothing more.

  • @rugbybeef
    @rugbybeefАй бұрын

    If nothing else wouldn't the personified concepts of Justice, Nature, or God, an argument for the idea of non-physical thinkers. Even the idiom, "X has a mind of its own" implying intentionality or will beyond the physical subject itself suggests a deep seated belief in the existence of an agent or thinker. Also, where personifications of these take on the linguistic characteristics such as receiving the "iru", "aru", "desu" variants of "to be" in a language like Japanese which has differing verb forms for animate things, inanimate things, and a more objective copular form of the verb. It seems where "Life finds a way" or "Nature abhors a vacuum" these concepts if nothing else have a state of mind beyond their physical substance in that "find" and "abhor" are subjective verbs of intention not physical actions.