Dr. Darren Staloff, Descartes Epistemology
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Wow i am a 20 year old accountancy student with no relation to philosophy whatsoever, vigorously taking notes. THANK YOU INTERNET & Dr.Staloff
I love listening to Dr Staloff, he’s super smooth, like an 80’s version of Mr Steal Yo Girl
@daithiocinnsealach1982
2 жыл бұрын
Guarantee he had a few girls in his classes looking at him with starry eyes just like in those 80s movies. 😂 e. g. Indiana Jones kzread.info/dash/bejne/Ym2Yz7OjhNSspKw.html
@The.Nasty.
2 жыл бұрын
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 if he drove a convertible with a handheld phone in it, he gets bonus points. 😂 Great clip btw what a classic
@panokostouros7609
2 жыл бұрын
2:34 "Baby, you no longer have to look over your shoulder at the ex's of the past! I have the _cognitive tools_ to go beyond them" 😎
@platovsky
2 жыл бұрын
I would like to know how is Dr Staloff right now? he must be old intelligence wisdom man 🧙♂️
@ok-kk3ic
Жыл бұрын
You been commenting this for like a year huh?
This Channel is just PURE GOLD!
The ponytail is justified.
@rockycomet4587
2 жыл бұрын
By scientific and logical proofs.
@daithiocinnsealach1982
2 жыл бұрын
This argument is mathematically sound via Euclidian proofs.
@inadiv
24 күн бұрын
Needed to add a third axis to the Cartesian plane to accommodate this ponytail
Wonderful lecture. Thank you for making this available to all of us.
This one is my favorite. I actually laughed a few times. Dr Staloff is a great lecturer
What a debt we owe to Descartes. We could do with such thinkers running the world today. This lecture was terrific!
Lovely, this lecture put me at ease with the study of "Epistemology."
@shiangjeoushyu8586
2 жыл бұрын
The 2nd time around was evern better!
Another amazing lecture. Thanks for sharing this with the “modern” peoples.
I am so excited for this! About to go to bed but this will be breakfast
@daithiocinnsealach1982
2 жыл бұрын
A good hearty breakfast indeed. Enjoy.
Dr. Staloff is the best, legendary!
@daithiocinnsealach1982
2 жыл бұрын
He's a close second to the legendary Dr. Sugrue
@elijahwest7126
Жыл бұрын
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 Staloff #1
Was just hoping for some descartes content, and here it is! Great timing and content as always
I look forward to these lectures. TY!
Had no idea Descartes made the first Boltzmann Brain theory. Really cool. This exact modern take is also eerily similar to the Matrix baby visuals.
Stalloff's mad cientist analogy was almost like a description of Matrix, on point
I love you Dr. Staloff
Yahooo! More Dr Staloff!
Thank you !
At 12:10 he is almost giving the context to the matrix!! Incredible to think about.
@graine7929
2 жыл бұрын
The Matrix is heavily inspired by the philosophical tradition. Some of the characters are even named after philosophers ! Wachowski are geniuses in many aspects
@temirlankasmaliev9322
2 жыл бұрын
@@graine7929 I agree, BUT the last matrix sucked 😹
@ibukowski3863
2 жыл бұрын
@@temirlankasmaliev9322 explain, I thought it was brilliant.
A series of essential questions are asked at 19:14 regarding the idea that God is imprinted on us from the outside: " Could [God] come from your imagination? But how so? How can you imagine something you've never experienced?" But we do imagine things never experienced before. I've never fallen off a cliff, but I seem to experience that every week. When I was a kid, I had a lucid dream that I was Superman and was flying through the air. In another, I was on the moon, enjoying the buoyancy. Are such fake experiences imprinted on me by the creator? Not sure what to make of it
@fadiacotter8979
2 ай бұрын
I had the same doubt at that point. Imagination, surely, is the process of thinking about things you've not experienced. Remembering is thinking about things that you have. The question above makes more sense as "how can you remember something you've not experienced?" I can imagine anything that is gifted into 'the show between my ears', and maybe that is the point at which determinism ceases to have control of our thoughts. If the thought is original, how can it have been experienced? A stimulating lecture, thanks Darren.
Dr. Staloff’s intelligence and genuine charisma is of such purity it forces even a snarky cynic like yours truly to NOT laugh my ass off at literally everything else about him. Kudos to you. Shine on you crazy diamond. I hope you you’re still a proud, erudite ponytailman. I love your lectures and have learned much from them.
@tommyXBOX360
2 жыл бұрын
hahaha
@KGB.83
2 жыл бұрын
He probably drives all his female students crazy! 😆 He is really full of himself and loves to hear himself lecture! Ha
Definitely channeling the 90s Kianu
Sure would be nice if you could eliminate the static background noise…
Bro is straight up describing the matrix lol
@AtanasNenov
2 жыл бұрын
Nah, man. The Matrix is straight out of Descartes' mind.
My favorite popcorn comedy: “Ernest Goes to Princeton”.
Descartes was dissociating big time🤣🤣🤣
The greek word used by Plato and Socratès translated as "soul " also breath/life. It does not mean disembodied individual human /personality.
@dr.michaelsugrue
9 ай бұрын
Psyche and pneuma are related but different things.
@cheri238
2 ай бұрын
❤
"Maybe you dreamed you had breakfast." Chuang Tzu was dealing with this 400 years before Christ when he asked "Did I dream I was a butterfly? Or am I a butterfly dreaming I am a man?" We have neglected the Far Eastern philosophical tradition for too long.
Damn he’s fine
“Hey, Verne… Cogito ergo sum.”
Aw yeah son, epistemology
If computers become conscious, it ends religion.
"The proof of the existence of God is that we can have the concept that that God exists." 20:15 Pretty weak argument.
@casteretpollux
9 ай бұрын
That's a no, so
"refused to footnote anyone" yet he lifted I think therefore I am from Parmenides 🤔
@rockycomet4587
2 жыл бұрын
Should make a Scumbag Steve meme out of that.
@daithiocinnsealach1982
2 жыл бұрын
If you listen to Staloff he says that we shouldn't take anything at face value. Not that we should reject all statements. We need to prove them. Ultimately we all start with the premise "I am". Everything else flows out of that.
@adamnoturfuknbusiness2367
2 жыл бұрын
@@daithiocinnsealach1982 yeah it's likely just repeat thought bc it's a good one, I'm being petty because I'm not a fan of decartes 😂
16:12 links a major reason i fear neurology advancing too far. if this were to be taken away, if the confirmation that anything existed, even in a sense that true Cartesianism could argue is false, was no longer possible, what would become of us?
@dialaskisel5929
2 жыл бұрын
Then you abandon Foundationalism (the philosophical position that you need a certain foundation of non-inferential knowledge to have any justified belief) and adopt a more malleable and modern theory of Truth (like Coherence theory or Rorty's Pragmatism)
@casteretpollux
9 ай бұрын
Absolutely nothing would happen.
My lizard brain tells me to show Descartes an fMRI brain scan + describe synapses + neurotransmitters as that's where the jokes are generated 😏
God is prior to, and created existence, therefore God, the transcendent, does not exist, though God is real for you, when you cease to exist psychologically also.
Descartes is at least 10 x overrated