Rupert Sheldrake v. Michael Shermer | On the edges of knowledge | Full discussion

Michael Shermer and Rupert Sheldrake go head to head over science, skepticism, spiritual claims and the boundaries of knowledge itself.
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What is it possible to know? Is the physical universe all there is, or is the immaterial part of reality too? Join radical scientist, Rupert Sheldrake, and world-leading sceptic, Michael Shermer, as they go head-to-head on where the edges of knowledge lie. Güneş Taylor hosts.
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00:00 Introduction
01:32 Michael Shermer pitch
05:48 Rupert Sheldrake pitch
13:58 Who is censoring you?
17:39 Psychic research evidence
20:30 Consciousness
22:02 What is evidence?
22:52 Alternative theories of physics
25:35 Mechanistic materialism
27:37 Roger Penrose
29:28 How do ideas become accepted?
30:45 Burden of proof
32:24 Scientific conservatism
34:28 Alternative medicine
36:30 Everybody thinks they're Galileo
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  • @AnnetteLouiseBickford
    @AnnetteLouiseBickford21 күн бұрын

    Intellectual courage, curiosity, perseverance, humility, empathy; Sheldrake is extraordinary--how fortunate we are!

  • @florincoter1988
    @florincoter198820 күн бұрын

    I wonder if "the edges of knowledge" is grasped as the single most important reason for scientific advancement. No matter how great is the curiosity or intellectual power of a person, without an edge there is nowhere to go. Sheldrake inspires!

  • @ljxn
    @ljxn6 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake is an underrated genius, one of the best and brightest minds of our times.

  • @Thomas-gk42

    @Thomas-gk42

    6 ай бұрын

    Sorry😂, he's either a crackhead or a very smart bussinessman, selling his books and his pseudoscience to people like you. Well, just my opinion.

  • @raimo7310

    @raimo7310

    6 ай бұрын

    Sure, or maybe there's a reason why his stuff has been written off as pseudoscience and he's just another one of those for the Internet gullibles where he can prosper

  • @seabud6408

    @seabud6408

    6 ай бұрын

    @@raimo7310 with respect. Yes, it’s no surprise that science actually believes that dead unconscious stuff became living conscious stuff … sometime somehow .. Google it … no scientist has the first clue how that happened least of all how to make it happen again in a chemistry lab 🧪 There is no evidence that the brain secretes/ manufactures .. consciousness .. Google it. It’s very simple and logical … how could the plasma ball at the Big Bang (if it happened and it probably did within a cyclic birthing and dying universe ) … how could plasma just left to clump and cool make eggs and chickens … if that plasma ball wasn’t exactly like the developing egg it was going to facilitate around 12.5 billion years later. Cosmic egg 🥚 Cosmic Chicken 🐓 … and then Einstein, Dali and Disney. All happened without one single thought theory or plan . Just an intelligent living energy field unfolding. The Universe has likely never been devoid of life and consciousness at any system level. The Universe as a vast entangled fractal holographic holon .. has likely always existed .. outwith time. It’s a mystery .. and as someone said … “I don’t think the brain can understand it” (Jiddu Krishnamurti) Obviously militant materialism has nothing to say about the above. It’s banned from even considering it on pain of excommunication .. from the community of “scientists”

  • @koenraad4618

    @koenraad4618

    6 ай бұрын

    I agree, but the exact mechanism/physics that underlies Sheldrake's bio-morphologic 'field' has yet to be discovered. This might be a signal/wave of electro-scalar nature, with superluminal velocity.

  • @karlschmied6218

    @karlschmied6218

    6 ай бұрын

    So tell me one of his most ingenious achievements or realizations, which every human being, who wants to stay on a rational ground, can understand and which also brings applications and not only speculates or looks for excuses, why it did not work.

  • @kathrynoneill81
    @kathrynoneill814 ай бұрын

    Love listening to Sheldrake, a person of Science who both understands the usefulness of rigorous study as well as the need to keep the door open in an active way in exploring the boundaries of Science. That IS Science. Dogma is not.

  • @johnalexir7634
    @johnalexir76345 ай бұрын

    Science and spirituality are not mutually exclusive, nor need they even be in conflict with each other.

  • @jrbda
    @jrbda6 ай бұрын

    I didn't believe a friend who lived in an isolated place 40 km from my work. He and my dog ​​lived there and he always said that he knew when I would show up without warning. There was no way to warn him, and I made the decisions to go completely at random, when I had a break from work. Well, he told me he always knew when I would show up there, because my dog ​​would sit for hours, in an unusual position near the door. I doubted him, for 10 years, until I read one. Sheldrake book. I can absolutely guarantee there is telepathic communication between some living beings. Maybe it doesn't happen to all humans and this should be better investigated scientifically.

  • @oneoflokis

    @oneoflokis

    11 күн бұрын

    💯👍 (NB: Colin Wilson, in his seminal 1970s tome on the occult, The Occult, mentions at least one case of this, happening to a Scottish poet friend of his, and his wife's observation of the family dog. This was of course decades before Sheldrake's experiments.)

  • @gabrielmills2361
    @gabrielmills23616 ай бұрын

    Fascinating discussion, thank you both. A lot of sense talked by BOTH proponents. And I'm still rooting for Sheldrake.

  • @PLACEBOBECALP

    @PLACEBOBECALP

    6 ай бұрын

    Me too just starting to watch it... be amazing if he had his old friend Terrence Mckenna with him too, to melt the other guy's mind with poetic hypnotic sentences that confuse but force you to contemplate it all. His title is world-leading sceptic? wonder how they measured that pointless statistic, not much of an achievement either it's just a case of disagreeing and disregarding everything he doesn't know or understand.

  • @AlpamayoJoe
    @AlpamayoJoe6 ай бұрын

    Sometime intuition is more effective than intelligence expecially in question regarding life. Bravo Rupert!

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    Well, intuition can be more effective, but it needs intelligence and a rational approach to be balanced. You have these persons who say "... but Einstein had great intuitive ideas" as a justification te be intuitive and irrational. But this is of course a mistake. Einstein was able to be genius with intuition 'in combination with' rational thought and intelligence.

  • @AlpamayoJoe

    @AlpamayoJoe

    6 ай бұрын

    @@bastiaanvanbeek sometimes ( pretty often in the history of science) to go beyond the limit you need to dare and be a bit irrational.

  • @AnHebrewChild

    @AnHebrewChild

    4 ай бұрын

    @@AlpamayoJoe⁠​​⁠​⁠I agree with your sentiments in a general sense :) but it seems to me that 'intuition v. intelligence' is an unhelpful dichotomy, and unnecessary. Might not the former be said to be a form of the latter? From our even limited understanding of the mind, I would think we could say that intuition is a certain expressive faculty, if you will, of intelligence. I think making deliberate efforts to synthesize such concepts is a healthy practice in light of an intellectual cultural of binary categorization. Even in this video's "debate," the unspoken riff between "materialist science" and phenomena perceived as "non physicality" is frustrating to behold. Especially in the guy on the right. Synthetic correspondence is a rich way to look at the world. "On earth as it is in heaven." Material science -explains- describes things which have various correspondences at different levels of reality. "heart, soul, mind, body." Thinking in terms of harmonic overtones is a pleasant analogy. I do like how your brain thinks, OP. And your mind. You too, BastiaanVanbeek I hope the above doesn't come off as a noodly dish of word salad. Ha. If it does, I can at least promise you that the thoughts behind it are not. Shalom to you.

  • @pappapiccolino9572
    @pappapiccolino95726 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake and Shermer have been interacting / arguing for years. In the past I've often found that Shermer has been very rude and dismissive of Rupert and his work. Now, he is at least prepared to be civil. Whether you agree with Rupert's ideas or not, his knowledge of real world science and his intellect are clearly superior to Michael's IMO.

  • @oneoflokis

    @oneoflokis

    11 күн бұрын

    💯👍

  • @martinst8764
    @martinst87646 ай бұрын

    I'm not sure about a lot of what Rupert says but I really like his attitude. I've learnt loads about the history of science from listening to him and I tune in to all of his conversations with Mark Vernon (recommended!!).

  • @WakingUpToday213
    @WakingUpToday2136 ай бұрын

    Rupert sparks a sense of wonder in me that I take as a touchstone of a larger reality.

  • @bobs182

    @bobs182

    5 ай бұрын

    Rupert sparks a sense in me that he lacks understanding of how the human mind functions.

  • @iamhudsdent2759

    @iamhudsdent2759

    3 ай бұрын

    @@bobs182 You spark a sense in all those with a soul that you don't have one.

  • @bobs182

    @bobs182

    3 ай бұрын

    @@iamhudsdent2759 You are misguided as consciousness doesn't continue after death. If you are talking about morality, I take your disdain to be immoral.

  • @williamoarlock8634

    @williamoarlock8634

    3 ай бұрын

    A sense of complete contempt is all Sheldrake sparks in me.

  • @natanaellizama6559
    @natanaellizama65596 ай бұрын

    The issue with Shermer's position is that as Sheldrake points out, is not honest. He shifts the argument until we get the image of: "Your work is not good enough to disprove the powerful evidence of the mainstream. I am honestly agnostic, and so more work needs to be done". Which sounds reasonable, of course. Yet that is not the case. As Sheldrake points out, there is plenty within the acceptable mainstream that has poor evidence, yet it is not taboo. So, it's not poor evidence vs great evidence. Also, he is not agnostic, he has a very strong bias against. Also, the evidence is also not poor. Also, as Sheldrake pointed out, there is dishonesty at work in the examination, presentation and countering of the data. So, what's at hand is "There is a counter paradigm that runs counter to the mainstream paradigm, which is not being taken seriously and dismissed without inquiry(non-agnosticism) and researchers suffer consequences(that such a powerhouse as Penrose took a little step outside the mainstream and received such backlash is not evidence of the openness but contrary to it), in which there's foul play". That is not scientific conservatism, or rational agnosticism, or skepticism, that is just age old dogmatism, which for some reason, many people consider cannot happen to scientists. Scientists are as biased as the next person, and it's only human that a canon authority that has a given paradigm is biased unto itself. It has happened literally in every historical case because it's "all too human".

  • @truBador2
    @truBador26 ай бұрын

    It is great listening to these two. Good show! Thank you.

  • @newpilgrim
    @newpilgrim6 ай бұрын

    This. Marvelous conversation. Many thanks!

  • @robertrobinson1554
    @robertrobinson15546 ай бұрын

    What an excellent debate. My eldest received a Ph.D. in food science related to how climate change might impact Fusarium head blight (FHB), also known as scab or tombstone. It is a severe fungal disease of wheat (including durum), barley, oats, and other small cereal grains and corn. His findings for the Northwest US indicated better yields in that region. But he got significant resistance because it didn't fit the narrative that all climate change is bad, bad, bad. So, there is considerable bias and dogma in the Sciences; it always has been and always will be.

  • @robynmitchell9563

    @robynmitchell9563

    6 ай бұрын

    The fact that climate change might be beneficial for growing crops & therefore has benefits for certain humans completely ignores the fact that humans are one species in a vast biological system. Loss of biodiversity at all levels will eventually have catastrophic effects on humans, no natter how much bread, pasta & corn syrup Americans will still be able to consume.

  • @robertrobinson1554

    @robertrobinson1554

    6 ай бұрын

    It wasn't about denying Climate Change. My comment was about the bias against any research that doesn't fit the narrative. It's what's been going on these last few years of canceling or full-out censorship. Those that censorship favors have no problem with it. Are you that type of person?@@robynmitchell9563

  • @1SpudderR

    @1SpudderR

    6 ай бұрын

    Permanent Head Damage....PHD- They really should rename that title! Perhaps Head Damage!? Priority Head Damage!? Lol!?

  • @Vgallo

    @Vgallo

    6 ай бұрын

    @@robynmitchell9563 but this is not the point that op was highlighting. Correct me if I’m wrong but they didn’t challenge anything you’ve stated, both can be true and I think understanding both will be crucial to how we manage climate change effectively, suppressing these truths because they don’t fit the overall agenda, will hurt us more in the long run, than incorporating and using that data to help design effective strategies in dealing with climate change. Seems half the problem is most people’s minds are entirely binary and incapable of holding nuanced thought in their mind.

  • @smlanka4u

    @smlanka4u

    6 ай бұрын

    The theory of everything called Verifying the Origin of Everything shows why modern science is fundamentally wrong.

  • @IndigoHazelnut
    @IndigoHazelnut6 ай бұрын

    The irony in the arguments of most sceptics is this : opening up an argument by saying we can't be sure of what we know but now I will tell you how certain I am of these things I believe in. I would love to see Michael Shermer proposing his views to Donald Hoffman

  • @williamoarlock8634

    @williamoarlock8634

    6 ай бұрын

    The biggest irony - that's never addressed - is the 'spiritual' all being so materially and socially privileged...

  • @philosopher0076

    @philosopher0076

    6 ай бұрын

    @@williamoarlock8634 You mean the " religious " not the spiritual.

  • @williamoarlock8634

    @williamoarlock8634

    6 ай бұрын

    @@philosopher0076 The 'spiritual' are materialistic - from the so-called Dalai Lama and his wealthy friends, to Sheldrake and his dippy hippy wife and every other celebrity spouting 'spirituality' from their comfortable homes and privileged positions.

  • @Consciousness_of_Reality

    @Consciousness_of_Reality

    3 ай бұрын

    @@williamoarlock8634 So you are attacking the person instead of their message?

  • @williamoarlock8634

    @williamoarlock8634

    3 ай бұрын

    @@Consciousness_of_Reality What message? Because all the 'spiritual' have is egotism and woo.

  • @joelvann1815
    @joelvann18156 ай бұрын

    What a man Sheldrake is

  • @alvisinger112
    @alvisinger1126 ай бұрын

    Fantastic exchange, we need a diverse range of ideas and plenty of challenge to move forward.

  • @pjbloggs5491
    @pjbloggs54916 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake follows the Scientific method scrupulously. This should be called “Spirituality versus Materialism”.

  • @rozzgrey801

    @rozzgrey801

    6 ай бұрын

    But he's actually been criticised for not following scientific protocols, which is why mainstream science doesn't accept his ideas. Guess you thought you'd see what your claim looks like in print so you pretend it's like, real.

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    Don't believe everything you read and hear. Sheldrake isn't really reliable. And he has had plenty of chances to prove himself.

  • @undercoveragent9889

    @undercoveragent9889

    Ай бұрын

    lol Neither you nor Sheldrake have a clue about the scientific method. I suppose that you think that snake-oil salesman John Lennox is a leading scientist too, right? Sheldrake's entire schtick is, 'I heard that...' or a friend told me...' or 'many people believe', etc. He is more religious than scientific.

  • @george5464
    @george54646 ай бұрын

    What does it even mean to be a “world leading skeptic”? I find it baffling how someone has made a career out of being a “skeptic”, not realising his own positions I.e “humans not being special” requires skepticism P.S this doesn’t per se mean i have to think humans are “special”

  • @NWLee

    @NWLee

    6 ай бұрын

    Dr. Shermer can't get past mind-brain problem, stuck in materialistic science.

  • @garybridges9482
    @garybridges948211 күн бұрын

    Synchro-finity Have you ever heard of the term coincidence? Quite a concept,or a con of incidence! For when things now happen, that we cannot explain. And are just too surreal for the norm to entertain. Then understand my friend's synchronicity is at work! The chance meetings, the haven't seen him in ages. That energy rush, that flows through and engages. Always left with that strange feeling. Scratching your head, leaving the best of us reeling! With no way to describe but “ just one of those things”. Much love GB xxx Early 2015 ?

  • @user-je7yx7mr1s
    @user-je7yx7mr1s6 ай бұрын

    The future will prove thinkers like Sheldrake right. I've personally experienced out of body experiences which science does not explain at this level.

  • @swinnyuk6584

    @swinnyuk6584

    6 ай бұрын

    Same!

  • @user-xr7fi6dy1w

    @user-xr7fi6dy1w

    5 ай бұрын

    Delusions. Got it

  • @user-je7yx7mr1s

    @user-je7yx7mr1s

    5 ай бұрын

    @@user-xr7fi6dy1w no, not delusions. Even CIA gateway experiment had confirmed that astral projection is real. But the “science religion” would not allow a proper discussion around it. Because the masses are supposed to feed the system the way it is set up.

  • @AnHebrewChild

    @AnHebrewChild

    4 ай бұрын

    @@user-xr7fi6dy1wWhen/if you ever have one of these experiences, you will know. I wish you well.

  • @evfast
    @evfast6 ай бұрын

    "who is censoring you" . TED Talks censored him.

  • @johncarter1150

    @johncarter1150

    6 ай бұрын

    Well done TED!

  • @evfast

    @evfast

    6 ай бұрын

    They recorded it, posted it, and then took it down. It's not available on their platform. Not sure how that's not censored. It is within the rights of the company to do so. But that doesn't change the term to describe removing it.

  • @larrytinsley4247

    @larrytinsley4247

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes and there is thousands of ways to censor someone active denial shadow banning organized smear campaign propaganda disengenuos articles like tge one he mentioned where the lady clearly either didn’t understand what he was saying or intentionally misinterpreted it I could go on and on

  • @evfast

    @evfast

    6 ай бұрын

    Your movie was better than the reviews. It didn't deserve to fail. At least it wasn't removed from the disney catalogue.

  • @MattHudsonAtx

    @MattHudsonAtx

    6 ай бұрын

    TED unpublished Sheldrake because his claims were bogus. Their audience is not as dumb as KZread.

  • @selliahlawrencebanchanatha4482
    @selliahlawrencebanchanatha44826 ай бұрын

    God bless Dr thanking you

  • @jamesboswell9324
    @jamesboswell93246 ай бұрын

    As odd as some of Rupert Sheldrake's theories and ideas are, his stance is solidly scientific. He is dead right to call out a lot of the phoney scepticism or 'scientific conservatism' that starts out with the answer (universe is made purely out of particles, waves and fields) and then dismisses every piece of empirical evidence that potentially challenges that model. At the extreme, such 'scientific conservatism' bleeds into a kind of mechanistic or physicalist fundamentalism. Whereas, if science is driven by anything besides curiosity, its extra-special element is doubt, which is clearly in diametric opposition to all kinds of fundamentalist belief, whether religious or (pseudo-)scientific. And too often scientists forget this. In short, they mix up science with scientism.

  • @larrytinsley4247
    @larrytinsley42476 ай бұрын

    I love both these guys

  • @arbez101

    @arbez101

    6 ай бұрын

    I'm of similar thought as you larrytinsley4247. My own position is in agreement with much of the principal of what they each say. The host made a note that what we accept as evidence, and what we make of said evidence is determined sometimes not by unilateral consensus, but by inner circle creed and perhaps dogmatism. This "set" of the mind happens on both sides or in all slices of the reality cake, I would say.

  • @Junterhack
    @Junterhack6 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake for the win!

  • @yngvesognen1092
    @yngvesognen10926 ай бұрын

    She said the key word, experience. Science doesn't have to prove anything, just gather the evidence, the experiences of many people. Then they can reverse-engineer and see if the experiences fit into any scientific models. If not, a completely new field of our reality is being discovered. It's not about material vs spiritual, but discovering both.

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes, but experiences can be false too. People can be delusions, you know. Like 3/4 of the earth's population experiences some kind of religious or spiritual things. But that doesn't make it true, lol. Our brains (humans, worldwide) are fooling us easily.

  • @ThatisnotHair
    @ThatisnotHair6 ай бұрын

    That staring at people expirement is something that is experienced alot

  • @paulusbrent9987
    @paulusbrent99876 ай бұрын

    Shermer's claim that there is no censorship is the weakest argument. Almost no universities and research centers allow for Sheldrake's line of research. Right or wrong, but that's a fact.

  • @williamoarlock8634

    @williamoarlock8634

    3 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake has nothing concrete to research.

  • @williamwhitten7820
    @williamwhitten7820Ай бұрын

    *I live with an African Gray Parrot who just whistled and walked into the room I am in just as I began writing this...* *She knows what I am thinking all of the time. I have absolutely no doubt of this...even though it surprized me just now as she came in here just now! Wow! I am continually amazed.*

  • @PieJesu244
    @PieJesu2446 ай бұрын

    Krauss, Dawkins et al could learn alot from this discussion in particular how to be civil but still making a strong case whilst listening to the opposite view.

  • @Theactivepsychos

    @Theactivepsychos

    6 ай бұрын

    W he ate your best example of incivility from Dawkins?

  • @righteousshift482

    @righteousshift482

    6 ай бұрын

    Dawkins is always very civil I've found. A polite, reverential guy. He does cast ridicule at ideas and behaviours but rarely at people. It doesn't mean he's always correct but he's a great example to people of how to behave in a discussion. Politicians could learn a lot by watching someone like Dawkins interacting with people from the other end of the ideological spectrum.

  • @PieJesu244

    @PieJesu244

    6 ай бұрын

    @@righteousshift482 Mmmmm not sure your right about that but we can agree to differ

  • @CVsnaredevil
    @CVsnaredevil6 ай бұрын

    Rupert! 🙌🏼

  • @terrycallow2979
    @terrycallow29796 ай бұрын

    100% Behind Sheldrake on this, brilliant mind.

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    100% is always a bit scary though

  • @davidscott1052
    @davidscott10525 ай бұрын

    I think Dr Sheldrake has successfully countered Shermers arguments especially over the accusations that Sheldrakes experiments did not yield better than chance results

  • @DaboooogA
    @DaboooogA6 ай бұрын

    Great exchange thanks. I personally have enjoyed Sheldrake's exchanges with the late great Terrence McKenna (particularly on the question of cannabis), as well as Shermer's (single) exchange with Graham Hancock...

  • @AnHebrewChild
    @AnHebrewChild4 ай бұрын

    28:30 Gosh I really like Dr Sheldrake. Such a jovial soul, and brimming with life.

  • @yngvesognen1092
    @yngvesognen10926 ай бұрын

    Yes, there is a great spiritual awakening going on, much greater than in the hippie, New Age, and other eras. Now it's enabled by the internet, instant knowledge.

  • @williamoarlock8634

    @williamoarlock8634

    6 ай бұрын

    Great 'navel-gazing' more like...

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    Coincidence or not, it is happening during the same time as the immense spread of misinformation and lack of rational thought in 2023. So, perhaps a bit of correlation or causation. lol

  • @stelmarsky6778

    @stelmarsky6778

    5 ай бұрын

    Spiritual awakening might be informed by the internet but instant knowledge is a two way sword.. Since you're thinking dualistically. The hippie, new age, and other eras are ever present they just change their appearance.

  • @yngvesognen1092

    @yngvesognen1092

    5 ай бұрын

    @@stelmarsky6778, yes of course, time is just a measurement, nothing basic has changed between each great movement. People however, experience more or less deeply. The internet enables both equally.

  • @brucegelman5582

    @brucegelman5582

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes and now we have a tidal wave of nonsense daily rather than a slow leak.

  • @michaelleahcim4507
    @michaelleahcim45076 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake levels above, tip my hat to the beautiful moderator inbetween.

  • @mra4955

    @mra4955

    5 ай бұрын

    it's not sexist to acknowledge someones beauty. you just did it too. chill bro

  • @andacomfeeuvou
    @andacomfeeuvou6 ай бұрын

    I am a spiritualist and I have no doubts about the existence of the spiritual world but, on the other hand, I love science and understand very well its need in the world and its functioning. And to tell you the truth, I feel much more honesty in science than in religion. Of course, there are very ill-informed scientists who say barbaric things in the name of science. I think that in truth everything is science and there is no topic within esotericism, occultism, mysticism, spirituality and religiosity that cannot be analyzed and understood by science. It is clear that the science we have today is not capable of doing so because it is trapped within limited paradigms and concepts. But in the future we will have deeper science.

  • @DaboooogA

    @DaboooogA

    6 ай бұрын

    Great exchange thanks. I personally have enjoyed Sheldrake's exchanges with the late great Terrence McKenna (particularly on the question of cannabis) , as well as Shermer's (single) exchange with Graham Hancock

  • @snowflakeca2079
    @snowflakeca20796 ай бұрын

    It’s not a “Head-to-head”… It’s not a competition… It’s 2 living beings of the same Super Organism… We are all 1.

  • @briansprock2248
    @briansprock22486 ай бұрын

    There is no 'versus' when there is right understanding.

  • @1SpudderR

    @1SpudderR

    5 ай бұрын

    I always analyse reword “Understanding” where Necessary. Which to me in some conversations implies I am subservient to to the user of that word ie “judge” in his environment? But out of his environment I am Not subservient to him and his Understanding as in this videotaped conversation!? And reapply the word “Understanding to comprehending” !? Regards

  • @tobiaszb
    @tobiaszb6 ай бұрын

    Thank you for giving the huge example of the repeated studies and consensus - climate heating, human caused.

  • @AnHebrewChild

    @AnHebrewChild

    4 ай бұрын

    human -caused- influenced, indeed.

  • @JimsPub-ds3qs
    @JimsPub-ds3qs6 ай бұрын

    The truth is very valuable.

  • @atmanbrahman1872

    @atmanbrahman1872

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes. But it's not offered by scepticism for scepticism sake.

  • @johncarter1150

    @johncarter1150

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@atmanbrahman1872 Yes, it is.

  • @tleevz1

    @tleevz1

    6 ай бұрын

    And it's free. Too many find it radioactive.

  • @michaelleahcim4507
    @michaelleahcim45076 ай бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @nanonoise
    @nanonoise6 ай бұрын

    interesting debate.. I wish it was a bit longer though, at least 60 min

  • @brianmckerrow817
    @brianmckerrow8176 ай бұрын

    Rupert is tapping into consciousness. A collective paramagnetic epigenetic that connects Life.

  • @MrFrawahr
    @MrFrawahr6 ай бұрын

    🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🎙️ Introduction and Setting the Scene - The session is introduced, and the theme is set for a discussion on the limits of human knowledge. - The discussion will revolve around the boundaries of what is possible to know and explore in the physical universe and beyond. 01:19 🧠 Limits of Human Understanding (Michael Shermer) - Michael Shermer discusses the idea that humans are not omniscient and should approach knowledge with humility. - He emphasizes the importance of applying rationality and science to explore and understand the world. 05:49 🌌 Limits of Human Understanding (Rupert Sheldrake) - Rupert Sheldrake counters Michael's perspective, stating that there are intrinsic limits to human understanding. - He highlights the role of organized skepticism and materialism in limiting exploration of certain phenomena. 14:08 🧪 Discussion on Replication and Materialism - Michael Shermer challenges the notion of taboos and highlights the need for strong, replicable evidence. - The debate revolves around materialism and its impact on accepting or rejecting unconventional phenomena. 22:03 🧐 A Scientist's Perspective - The audience gains insight into the challenges of replication in scientific research. - The discussion emphasizes the importance of rigorous evidence and skepticism in scientific exploration. 00:00 🎯 Introduction and General Discussion - The discussion revolves around the nature of knowledge and evidence in science. - Key points: - Debate about what constitutes valid knowledge. - The challenge of deciding which evidence to believe. - How alternative theories are treated in scientific communities. 05:15 🤔 The Role of Scientific Consensus - The discussion delves into the role of scientific consensus in shaping accepted knowledge. - Key points: - Scientific consensus as a standard for accepting knowledge. - The historical context of previously fringe ideas becoming accepted. - Mention of the 97% consensus on climate change among climate scientists. 09:10 💡 Challenging Established Knowledge - The conversation focuses on how and when to challenge established scientific knowledge. - Key points: - The burden of proof in challenging established knowledge. - The history of scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts. - An example of the Continental Drift theory. 13:05 🔬 Consciousness and Scientific Paradigms - The discussion turns to the role of Consciousness in scientific paradigms and the potential for a paradigm shift. - Key points: - Mechanistic materialism's limitations in explaining Consciousness. - The need for a broader view of Consciousness's role in science. - Predictions about the impact of such a paradigm shift. 17:34 🌍 Scientific Paradigms and Their Impact - The conversation touches on how scientific paradigms influence society, especially in areas like medicine and the environment. - Key points: - The impact of mechanistic materialism on our relationship with nature. - The potential for change in various fields with a broader paradigm. - Mention of comparative effectiveness research in medicine. 21:48 🔍 Balancing Skepticism and Openness - The debate wraps up with a discussion about striking a balance between skepticism and openness to new ideas. - Key points: - The challenge of finding the right balance between skepticism and acceptance. - A reminder of the importance of good evidence in supporting new ideas. - The evolving nature of scientific knowledge. Made with HARPA AI

  • @edbop

    @edbop

    6 ай бұрын

    That is a great demonstration that 'ai' does not posses intelligence. Also awkward that Michael failed to understand the question.

  • @larrytinsley4247
    @larrytinsley42476 ай бұрын

    🎉beautiful

  • @hughlowe4431
    @hughlowe44315 ай бұрын

    Good debate

  • @cliffjamesmusic
    @cliffjamesmusic6 ай бұрын

    One of the dilemmas of knowledge is that it can be very useful, enabling us to do things that would otherwise not be possible but on the other hand, it can take us in the “wrong” direction, if dogma replaces scepticism. Science (evidence-based opinion aka facts, exposed to scepticism and criticism) can help; but for life, belief is more important. It is belief that determines our attitudes and behaviour, whether that belief is in a saviour, interpretation of something as a threat, or whatever. When Belief is attached to dogma, as with religions, applied economic and political theory and in corrupted science, serious problems and conflicts can arise i.e. the World we live in today.

  • @phillipmaxwellastrology2978
    @phillipmaxwellastrology29786 күн бұрын

    Fantastic discussion, but it needed at least another hour to be complete

  • @Kafei
    @KafeiАй бұрын

    The host had an obvious bias towards Shermer, but nevertheless my hat's off to Sheldrake. Always a beautifully spoken and articulate individual who cuts through the very core of these perspectives and issues in a very similar vein to his dead friend, rest his soul, Terence McKenna. Rupert, if you're reading this, please, we need more of it! You are a divine spark to ignite the collective creative soul of humanity that is so crucial to the salvation of our very planet! Keep it up, brother! (edit) The fact that Michael Shermer's ultimate "rebuttal" was a sheer straw man of Rupert's position is a testament to the recurring fact that consciousness is still quite a mystery to science or neuroscience, and that, as Sheldrake rightly emphasizes, that we shouldn't be so dogmatic with materialism on approaching these topics. It's not about "convincing the majority of neuroscientists" as Shermer seems to find so important. It's about finding the truth about the nature of consciousness, and what's actually going on in reality despite the consensus of professionals.

  • @jerrysikora2024
    @jerrysikora20246 ай бұрын

    Sheldrake is great pioneer of future science !

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    Not really, he's probably more similar to how scientists thought during the Middle Ages or like during the postmodern era of the 20th century, lol.

  • @Nalhek
    @Nalhek6 ай бұрын

    Shermer has his form down to a science, and I don't mean that to be flattering. He consistently moves the goalpost whenever it suits him. First he makes it about evidence, then makes it about the likelihood that evidence might be mistaken, then makes the assumption that Rupert being right would require throwing out all of physical science, then throws Penrose out there as a curve ball just to avoid going on defense, etc etc Anyone who isn't familiar with Rupert's work is really making a mistake.

  • @VaughanMcCue

    @VaughanMcCue

    6 ай бұрын

    Shermer will not entertain the magic kingdom and should be cancelled. You did well to quote mine through micky shermer's comment. I could say you continually move the goalposts if I pretend you did not include the "He" Of course it could be that you did not pay any attention ,made up your mind the drake's babbling was your priority or have difficulty parsing sentences.

  • @endofscene

    @endofscene

    6 ай бұрын

    Shermer is not a great mind. All his arguments and counter arguments are easily refuted.

  • @VaughanMcCue

    @VaughanMcCue

    6 ай бұрын

    @@endofscene Apparently, Michael Shermer's arguments are irrefutable, at least by you, unless you plan to do better than you have. A reminder for everyone, including myself. Whenever we use the ubiquitous "ALL", we are certainly not getting off to a productive start. Even if we get one thing correct, it does not follow that everything we spill after that has credibility.

  • @rozzgrey801

    @rozzgrey801

    6 ай бұрын

    @@endofscene I guess you're hoping we'll just take your word for that claim. We don't expect you to actually prove what you claim with any evidence at all, which is lucky for you as we all know you are bluffing.

  • @faismasterx
    @faismasterx6 ай бұрын

    Not even 40 minutes? This discussion needs at least 2 hours.

  • @selliahlawrencebanchanatha4482
    @selliahlawrencebanchanatha44826 ай бұрын

    Dr shelfreg love you

  • @selliahlawrencebanchanatha4482
    @selliahlawrencebanchanatha44826 ай бұрын

    God bless love you all

  • @kennyw871

    @kennyw871

    Ай бұрын

    It would help to know which God you're referring to?

  • @alaintavakoli4573
    @alaintavakoli45736 ай бұрын

    Rupert is some other level guy you're looking for...🔥

  • @bastiaanvanbeek

    @bastiaanvanbeek

    6 ай бұрын

    Well, not really. Other level... Certainly not a higher level, lol.

  • @SandipChitale
    @SandipChitale6 ай бұрын

    Why is it that people like Eric Weinstein, Rupert Sheldrake and Stuart Hameroff complain about some kind of persecution in every debate. They can focus on the debate subject and not waste time on sociolo and complain elsewhere.

  • @jacksonelmore6227

    @jacksonelmore6227

    6 ай бұрын

    It’s an adjacent social issue relevant to the progression of science, as well as the discussion at hand, there is an archetypal pattern of the acceptance of new discoveries Galileo, of course, but also: The Christ and the Buddha discovered the Self, and were persecuted; but now we all accept the Self, consciously or not

  • @marksharman8029
    @marksharman80296 ай бұрын

    Michael Shermer as a skeptic, 'is not special'. And that is ok. There is a place for that. I'm just skeptical about the process of skepticism. Maybe finding ways to 'not' something could be counter productive. Given that sensitivity to nuances in perception are difficult to measure, could be perhaps rendered down to the: Known; Unknown; and the Unknowable. Having an open mind is maybe a better approach to walking the path you are on.

  • @edmathews1817
    @edmathews18176 ай бұрын

    I do enjoy forum swear there is actually open discussion and listening 2 another side. Thank you for that.however the opening speaker started right out by telling me he doesn't know anything and I can't know anything either,. That is in fact then the end off dialog.

  • @patriciaflores5310
    @patriciaflores53106 ай бұрын

    I’m all Mr Shaldrake team.

  • @user-je7yx7mr1s
    @user-je7yx7mr1s6 ай бұрын

    10 years ago talking about UFO and aliens was regarded as conspiracy theories as well, today congress holds hearing about it.

  • @briansprock2248
    @briansprock22486 ай бұрын

    Okay,.... there was a period in my life when I instictively knew when they were ovulating. The mother of my daughter was told by another man that she was pregnant, while she herself was not even aware of it herself. Like I mentoned before,.... some people pick things up. Instinct can be honed by paying attention to the subtle cues of your own body and that the environment gives off. It's a thing. And most people have experienced it in their lives.

  • @VenusLover17
    @VenusLover174 ай бұрын

    ❤❤

  • @Gringohuevon
    @Gringohuevon6 ай бұрын

    Nice to see a friendly debate instead of a clash of egos

  • @richardhall5489
    @richardhall54896 ай бұрын

    Interesting that the term "the" placebo effect is used rather than "a" placebo effect. From my perspective the former implies "nothing to look at here" while the latter says "oh... interesting".

  • @MattHudsonAtx

    @MattHudsonAtx

    6 ай бұрын

    They mean the exact same thing

  • @christiansmith-of7dt
    @christiansmith-of7dt6 ай бұрын

    The small sizzle

  • @xxxxxxxxx727
    @xxxxxxxxx7276 ай бұрын

    why versus --- reach a hand and come together ✌️🍀🌞

  • @romanszefler7479
    @romanszefler7479Ай бұрын

    We could never find what we are not looking for

  • @mausperson5854
    @mausperson58546 ай бұрын

    Emperor's New Mind is a prime example of how it's quite respectable to study such things as the 'Hard Problem'. Popular science books that hint at the mysterious and immaterial fly off the shelves. What is there to complain about... These studies get funded notwithstanding the poor results suggesting 'spooky stuff' going on in the only place we can seemingly investigate from, i.e. the natural world. Science being dynamic and provisional allows for constant upgrades in what the best current models we have.

  • @eliyasara9786
    @eliyasara97866 ай бұрын

    One fascinating thing about this conversation is that it is so obvious that Shermer has really not studied in any sort of necessary detail, Rupert's own work. This is simply because he never once makes a discussion point/argument based aorund Rupert's own theory, and instead purely asks/attacks on the basis of theoretical scientific concepts. Whereas Rupert definitively gets to the bottom and undermines the very basis of Shermer's skepticism (materialism).

  • @clungebucket23
    @clungebucket236 ай бұрын

    When did this talk take place?

  • @1SpudderR
    @1SpudderR6 ай бұрын

    1:00.....I- Probably- We all, don’t comprehend how you (anyone) can be a world leading Sceptic!?

  • @yngvesognen1092
    @yngvesognen10926 ай бұрын

    It's not about changing skeptics' minds. It is about using the spiritual means we have to navigate this material wold. That way maybe even some skeptics may "see the light".

  • @johnjeffreys6440

    @johnjeffreys6440

    6 ай бұрын

    spiritual was the original name given to what we now cal quantum.

  • @yngvesognen1092

    @yngvesognen1092

    6 ай бұрын

    @@johnjeffreys6440Whatever sounds less woo-woo I suppose...but when you break material science down to the quantum level you still don't get to the essence, spirit, the reason behind it all, the "theory" of everything if you will. That scientists simply dismiss the many spiritual experiences of many millions of people over many millennia is both deplorable and laughable. They are so dogmatically convinced that there is nothing beyond material science that their narrow-mindedness has blinders on. There is an alternative understanding of quantum entanglement which I can expound upon if you wish.

  • @selliahlawrencebanchanatha4482
    @selliahlawrencebanchanatha44826 ай бұрын

    Dear gods all you are gods live you

  • @zyxmyk
    @zyxmyk6 ай бұрын

    i think skeptics believe everything that can be discovered has been. and they make a nice living arguing that point endlessly.

  • @chyfields
    @chyfields6 ай бұрын

    We should be able to acknowledge that we are each a part of the same Universal puzzle, regardless of whether we manifest in purely energetic form or in physical form.

  • @laze4534

    @laze4534

    6 ай бұрын

    What is this nonphysical energy you speak of?

  • @chyfields

    @chyfields

    6 ай бұрын

    @@laze4534 To my understanding, everything is energy. Sometimes the threads of energy coalesce into form, sometimes these tapestries of physicality become frayed.

  • @laze4534

    @laze4534

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@chyfields The point I'm making is that energy still has a physical form so there should be a way to physically detect it. Even relativity was mocked as absurd until we got the eclipse proof.

  • @todradmaker4297

    @todradmaker4297

    18 күн бұрын

    @@laze4534 Dark energy?

  • @laze4534

    @laze4534

    18 күн бұрын

    @@todradmaker4297 That's still proposed to be physical matter.

  • @martinwilliams9866
    @martinwilliams98666 ай бұрын

    In fact, we go round Venus, which goes round Mercury, which goes round the Sun, which goes round the Barycenter

  • @michaelgonzalez9058
    @michaelgonzalez90585 ай бұрын

    I AM

  • @899547
    @8995475 ай бұрын

    Maybe some people don't want to be scientific sheep. Science has it's place.

  • @OdjoAdja
    @OdjoAdja6 ай бұрын

    maybe it analogous just like in mathematics science with what we named as 'complex number' there's a real part and imaginary part.. the metaphysical or consciousness or event quantum things we may say as 'imaginary part' and maybe 'intangible science' can make it as knowledgeable although not always applicable in general.. the term of 'not replicable' maybe the prove that somethings that mentioned as in 'intangible science' is not 'bound to time-space continuum'.. the conscious of 'afraid to acknowledge' is a kind of energy that can make 'intangible science' not applicable in general..😊

  • @lakshmisharma6182
    @lakshmisharma61826 ай бұрын

    Why sceptics are not towards materialism ,why towards others

  • @patrickl6932
    @patrickl69325 ай бұрын

    How long are Rupert's arms? WOW

  • @djsjdh-hoahdi
    @djsjdh-hoahdi6 ай бұрын

    Rupert is onto something, i’ve experienced many similar, specific events. in some way, there is a universal collective concsciousness connection. the Jungian, less empirical Hegelians, IYKYK. The evidence and answers can reveal themselves to us at any time if we move slow enough and remain receptive. Don’t ask me for evidence. Ask yourself why you haven’t seen it and about the opportunities you could have. Some things may never replicate in an outcome sense, but in the mechanism. But it only takes one good experience for a conscious mind to understand what can’t be understood. it all starts with developing our understanding of our relationship with consciousness.

  • @skand1nsky
    @skand1nsky6 ай бұрын

    If everyone agrees that quantum entanglement / non locality is a real phenomena and facet of our reality, then why is it such a stretch to suggest that interactions in one brain can lead to simultaneous effects in another brain?? Isnt that what telepathy is? Signals can and do travel faster than light. The Bell EPR paradox was never disproven. Ergo, it makes sense to suggest that particles in one location mediate others elsewhere.

  • @AnHebrewChild

    @AnHebrewChild

    4 ай бұрын

    Agree, but one need not even appeal to QM to formulate a reasonable hypothesis to explain the phenomenon. The lack of imagination in so many is startling.

  • @user-xr7fi6dy1w
    @user-xr7fi6dy1w5 ай бұрын

    People like sheldrake can’t fathom coincidences. It’s just incredulity.

  • @stephenkaake7016
    @stephenkaake70166 ай бұрын

    I can't help anyone as i sit in a room suffering, but my thoughts have been replaced by a super mind that corrects me, I was gifted by the greater mind, I was trained by God, spirits with me, I can do things easier now and this should be considered a horrific crime

  • @arawiri
    @arawiri6 ай бұрын

    Spoon wins everytime

  • @user-hn9ov7fu2r
    @user-hn9ov7fu2r6 ай бұрын

    I claim this ,I have been thinking something and I opened my phone,and I saw video related to it.I was watching video and then I see that person who doesn't live around my area and has no chance of coming at all.I ignored due to materialist view that it was brain creating but I still think this much coincidence is not something am meaning there is something telepathic abt it ,which materialist try hard to disregard and unfortunately they are dominant in nature and they make you believe something wrong with you rather than saying may be we are not understanding something,but they are dogmatic and has command

  • @user-hn9ov7fu2r

    @user-hn9ov7fu2r

    6 ай бұрын

    @@KatyWellsKingsland i actually ignore KZread video things ,the idea running in my head and then coming to KZread by denying that may be algorithm,which make no sense because KZread doesn't read my mind but seeing something on KZread and finding same person outside of him having no chance is actually very surprising for me ,other than this I was in village are to my dadi's hoise where no plane comes and I was just watching ladin air strike attack video summary and suddenly the plane come and I swear it's true and never the plane came there nad I actually wa shocked because I was watching that ladon attack video for 2 hoir from different channels I don't know why.But every person there strted talking it never came why plane came here .I don't know I ignored actually this things but these I don't know have significance or not

  • @backwardthoughts1022
    @backwardthoughts10226 ай бұрын

    tukdam in taipei 2020 was fully monitored and tested by neuroscientists and scientists and lasted over 30 days. what was demonstrated completely destroys modern biology, medicine, physics, etc, and physicalism.

  • @felixccaa
    @felixccaa2 ай бұрын

    24:28 it's not: "400 yrs of physics is wrong" - it's: "You never adressed it properly, Your ways of measuring it is not helpful in finding out the truth (wether or not it is true that there is conscious in matter)"

  • @science212
    @science2126 ай бұрын

    Shermer is honest. He's rational.

  • @natanaellizama6559

    @natanaellizama6559

    6 ай бұрын

    No, he's not. He's dogmatic. This was made clear(not that one would need anything other than just knowing Shermer's work) when he straw-mans Sheldrake's arguments.

  • @briansmith3791

    @briansmith3791

    6 ай бұрын

    @@natanaellizama6559 Shermer is an absolute fake and a liar. He calls himself a skeptic yet promoted the foul lie of 'beheaded children' in Israel without any evidence whatsoever. He, of course, supports the destruction of Gaza and the slaughter of Palestinian children. ( read his tweets)

  • @Thomas-gk42

    @Thomas-gk42

    6 ай бұрын

    Right, without people like he, there would be no progress in society

  • @Thomas-gk42

    @Thomas-gk42

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@natanaellizama6559which arguments? All what Sheldrake gives are statements

  • @Scienceandpsi.net.

    @Scienceandpsi.net.

    6 ай бұрын

    😐 honest! Shermer? NO! He is not. In 2018, Kimberly Winston reported in The Washington Post that Shermer had "denied allegations of sexual harassment and assault from several women." In 2019 NPR reported that although he was not charged for any wrongdoing, Illinois Wesleyan University had canceled author Shermer's visit for the President's Convocation. Not to mention that James Randi excused his behavior. Trying to prove sexual harassment is still difficult today. A fight that we are still facing in society. Shermer was dismissed from Scientific American for distorting statistics on minority women. He owns a magazine and podcast where he bashes trans people. This leads me to see that Shermer and pseudoskeptic are unethical with their skeptism. As it appears they are trying to prevent progress in society and science rather than advance it..I prefer a healthy skeptic that looks at the data with an open-mind and strives to conduct research with integrity in all fields of science.

  • @mykrahmaan3408
    @mykrahmaan34086 ай бұрын

    Search for knowledge must only be for the single purpose of PREVENTION OF EVIL (predation, disasters, diseases, death). Hence, the only criterion of proof of accuracy of knowledge must be: PRACTICAL SATISFACTION OF THE NEEDS OF ALL BEINGS.

  • @Yasqo
    @Yasqo5 ай бұрын

    What Rupert is saying is not really far-fetched. For example, when he spoke about the sense of knowing something without it being evident, it reminded me of the hunter-gatherer hypothesis or the Stone Age brain theory. This theory is essentially about instincts in response to danger. The idea suggests that during primitive times, we had heightened instincts for detecting and responding to threats compared to today’s time, as we now live in a modern world that is relatively safer than before. Even though this hypothesis or theory does not really match what Rupert is trying to convey, there is a parallel in what he’s saying - the knowing part, which could simply be instincts and nothing necessarily more. So, It could just be a case of heightened instincts or intuition and people may vary in those two traits. Or maybe it’s something even beyond those two traits, who knows.

  • @lenspencer1765
    @lenspencer17656 ай бұрын

    I believe physic experiences r personal and cant be replicated with experiments doesnt mean they not real

  • @phillipmaxwellastrology2978
    @phillipmaxwellastrology29786 күн бұрын

    I think the resistance to allowing spiritual ideas in science is rooted in a fear that we will revert to a time of religious dogma. Seems though like we replaced one overly rigid dogma with another. I think we need to have no dogma that we are hard and fast attached to. But being attached to a dogma, world view paradigm seems to be deeply intertwined with the human condition

  • @joeosp1689
    @joeosp16896 ай бұрын

    An entertaining and easy-to-understand book about the Genesis creation and the Big Bang debate is Axis of Beginning.

  • @fcalin21
    @fcalin216 ай бұрын

    Rupert is the next Deepak Chopra.

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