This is the best and fullest explanation I’ve heard Chomsky give on problems and mysteries. Excellent. What a brilliant mind.

@Abo_7aidar313

4 жыл бұрын

We have problems which we cover with coats of *Mysteries* because we are way too lazy to solve them.

How can anyone dislike this humble man videos?

Top-Tier Chomsky.

i'll have to listen to this 5 times to comprehend 1/2 of it.

@DrJones20

4 жыл бұрын

He is very intelligent

@fabiengerard8142

11 ай бұрын

Every single lecture of his definitely helps most of us become always better and more demanding humans. The best teacher of all, 24/7, and FOR FREE… Such a pity - but clearly no surprise - the world leaders keep promoting instead the cheapest fast-food education systems.

Nice segmentation, Chomsky's Philosophy! Keep it up. :)

Con que claridad Chomsky explain everything !. I really feel he is the best !

There are times when Chomsky speaks that I laugh that he can't take anything for granted because the intellectual culture is so conditioned he has to state the obvious as if it's interesting. And I laughed when he said "they don't even have bad ideas".

Love the subtle roast of his students “there’s no reproductive advantage to the capacity to solve problems in the advanced sciences”.

This man‘s rational is a revelation!

This is the first I've seen Chomsky use a blackboard. Hell, it's the first time I've seen him draw anything.

@finneykewa

Жыл бұрын

This…this, is an underrated comment.

@fabiengerard8142

11 ай бұрын

It’s also the first time I happen to see him actually ‘teaching’ - in a class room, I mean. ‘’The modern Socrates’’ at work, in some way, or at least in his natural environment. Possibly filmed three decades ago, when he was still in his 60s?

Hey! I cleaned up the audio of this. Feel free to reupload the video with this new audio if you want. www.dropbox.com/s/80k3w9c8bzsosf4/Noam%20Chomsky%20-%20Problems%20vs.%20Mysteries%20cleaner.wav?dl=0

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I wonder why so less likes this video got. Chomsky is brilliant...

Great video! One thing I'm confused on though. At the end of the video, is he saying that we should not resist metaphysical dualism because if we resist it, it will lead to irrational dualism?

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Imagine a phase space representing all possible questions, and in that space a set of irregular blobs representing the set of problems, with the remainder representing mysteries. From our position inside the blobs, we have no way of asertaining the shape or the extent of the blobs. To draw a line around our knowledge, we'd have to step slightly outside that knowledge.

@valeriaflow3546

3 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to expand the size of the blob? And if so what method did we use to expand it? What are the characteristics of that method? can it be applied infinitely many times? Is it recursive?

@StefanTravis

3 жыл бұрын

@@valeriaflow3546 _"what method"_ The loose collection of methods we call "science", which constantly expands the size of the blob, but we have no way of knowing how far the expansion can continue. _"can it be applied infinitely many times?"_ To ask that question is to try to use reason to determine the bounds of reason. That's like trying to use your eyes to find the limits of what your eyes can see, which would involve seeing slightly _beyond_ those limits, so as the draw a dividing line around them. _"Is it recursive?"_ If you're asking "Is it possible to rationally justify using reason as a method of enquiry?" then I suppose the answer is "Yes, but only if we adopt a pragmatist epistemology".

@MRender32

3 жыл бұрын

@@StefanTravis That seems a bit to epistemically dualistic, like we can’t examine the rest of the phase space in some way. Abandoning the mechanical philosophy, we can look merely at the effects of things and come to conclusions of their function. If not us, then our machines. Don’t get me wrong, I read the Tractatus too, and point-blank it’s correct. But there are still things to say about things we cannot talk.

@StefanTravis

3 жыл бұрын

@@MRender32 _" there are still things to say about things we cannot talk"_ That seems a contradiction in terms. Could you give an example?

@ephemera...

Жыл бұрын

I can't even tell if this is a joke.

Chomsky rules but this does not belong on my music playlist. Haha

i wonder...if by "problems" Chomsky actually means, even subconsciously, "concepts"

This video made me realise what the hell Kant was talking about

The L. Ron Hubbard of MIT. He built his cadre of young cranks a few at a time, year by year, and they're still ready to bore you with their hero worship, at the drop of his name.

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Here are(some of) the things I've learned about life by now. -Consciousness is permanent and localizes itself in every being - we are all one consciousness - the mind is a tool and the ego is an illusion. -Physics is a model. It describes reality(form) but is not reality itself. It gives useful results by approximating reality but is in no way reality as that would be impossible(atoms are models, protons are models, motion itself and time is a model). -Time doesn't exist(think about it a bit deeper). -Zeno's paradox isn't solved with math, rather with accepting the conclusion that it is impossible to infinitely subdivide distance. -There is an agenda, always has been always will be. -Capitalism is modern, so called, wage slavery. - EVERY system works as long as the people in it are deluded by it's ideas. Slavery also worked as long as the slaves accepted their reality as the only way. -Noam Chomsky is a credible source of information. -The elite likes indoctrinating and manipulating people by making them deal with things that are not real problems, so they are diverted from the main fact that there is mass inequality which is a result from capitalism, that is in full swing in the US(the same country that profits from war). -Depression as a notion of mental illness is a lie. It is a consequence of reacting to thought and perpetually producing unpleasant emotional reactions as a result. -Psychology is created in the mind and cannot solve problems of the mind, only give temporary unconscious solutions. -Critical thinking is essential. Look into the following: Noam Chomsky, Ekhart Tolle, history of US foreign policy, philosophy of science, freemasonry. Just my personal insight.

@christopherdiedrich40

5 жыл бұрын

Wow LEX! You certainly are paying attention to way more than I ever have! I really have no idea why I chose you to blab this to but for some reason I must believe that you will read this with some interest. Anyway, this talk made me think of how there are living microorganisms that could really cause disaster for us, as well as other more complex organisms. And yet, if we were to go extinct, I'm not so sure that it would affect much of any of the rest of earth. In fact, the planet would likely begin to really thrive again. And so we really are pretty insignificant. Or I could be totally wrong, I suppose. What do you think? Is this one of the consequences of being a more complex organism vs a simpler one?

@DailyLessonQuotes

5 жыл бұрын

@@christopherdiedrich40 I do not know what you mean by blab out, I just stated what I think to maybe cause others to look into some of the things I mentioned. Regarding your statement and then following question, this is what I have come to notice. It depends on what level you look at the world and what you believe. If you look at things materialistically, we are all walking pieces of meat. This is the way most westerners see the world. (and with the help of modern physics "facts", that have no proof, they(westerners mostly) have come to the conclusion that we are insignificant) I can see that there is obviously something above form, which we can all see for ourselves. There is this consciousness that simply localizes in living beings. It is infinite and connects us all in this way. I am rephrasing what ekhart tolle intuitively came to notice. (you may or may not believe what he says) "The earth is a living being and as such has its own intelligence. It is not a piece of rock flying through space with things growing on top. The sun is also not just a fireball. If the earth decides that the human spieces cannot be welcome any longer - as it causes pollution and damages the earth - it will eliminate the species, but not necessarily with violence, it is enough to make males and females infertile." This is what I also believe since it makes sense with the observation of consciousness. By the way do not get caught in the way I said modern physics has no proof. This is a longer story and woul cause a hude deviation from the question and answer.

Science relies on consensus. So people want to know why a system that uses consensus as its highest standard is so popular? Get out.

Chomsky is wrong. We can understand everything.

@adambird-ridnell6415

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks pal