I'm convinced that I'd previously posted a comment on this video, but nevermind, I really enjoyed. I highly recommend the works of Carl Jung and Bernardo Kastrup who wrote a book on the Metaphysics of Carl Jung, highly recommended reading.

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Thank you! I'll get that book!

Excellent, as always. Several random thoughts. Plato's universal and human soul in the Timaeus are triadic. an intermediate combination of mind-related number and body related energy and changes in it. The two are interdependent though not equal in value or power. Consciousness and the processing brain also seem to be interdependent on some views. The brain receives variable signals and converts them to steady, reliable, representations of the world. So, some say, colours are made in the mind - light comes from objects, is received by eye receptors, and the brain makes decisions on what colour shade is actually seen. So it takes signals and converts them into best guesses based on experiences. Colours also depend on the shapes we see. So, it is quite like an info-processing machine but the output is not always the same but depends on the experiencer. Other interesting recent ideas I have heard are does the universe think and do we need to start from the inside of the universe and work outwards to understand things, which I believe means start from the changing quantum state and particles, the smaller, and gradually work out to the bigger. So, based on this, could the soul be quantum information?? Anyway, I look forward to your next post as, being a Platonist, I love anything about the nature of soul, body, and their relationship!😀

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Thank you so much for this and your kind words! Unfortunately, I don't (yet) know much about Plato's ideas about the soul -- I will look into it. About the colours, there are many examples for how our optical system can be cheated to perceive colours differently. There was, I think, something about a blue/golden dress on the Internet (you can google it) that shows how differently the same photograph can be perceived. Also, when you look at a coloured spot and then quickly away, you see the complementary colour as a ghost image etc. So it's truly as you say that our perception is to some extent constructed by the brain. About quantum states I don't understand much, unfortunately. I wish I had been paying more attention to physics when I had the opportunity. Now it's too late, I guess. But I've also heard this theory that consciousness can be seen as a fundamental feature of the universe. This would be interesting to explore in a future video. Thanks again!

Excellent

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Ай бұрын

Thank you!

What a great video Dr. Matthias! Thank you for all the effort you put into your videos. I'd have loved to have attended to philosophy classes like yours when I was in highschool or college, it would have made my journey easier in grad school 😅. Your explanation between the two types of monisms (material and immaterial) and the dualism between soul and body made me remember Dr. David Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception. Would Dr. Hoffman's position be similar to that of Berkeley then, but with an actual attempt to come up with a way to prove, mathematically first, experimentally later, the fundamental existence of a non material reality that gives rise to what we perceive as our physical world? I just discovered his theory recently, so I'm not sure whether or not that's the case.

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24 күн бұрын

Sorry for the late reply and thank you so much for your kind words! I'm traveling right now, so I cannot immediately answer you on the Interface theory, but I'll do that within the next few days. Thanks!

Im a materialist guy.

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