Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
The film Inner Visions and Running Trains was about Faqir Chand, who was fighting in Iraq. The theme was about believing in something that you didn’t actually experience it. The movie was about consciousness, and how we dream about things we expect, not realizing the reality. Chand had a vision ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell. A Free Man's Worship essay was written in 1929. In the essay, Russell talks about how human created this god concept. He states that human found powerful nature, and thus they started worshipping god. He said that we have created this sense that ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Daniel Dennett is a philosophy teacher, talked about Daniel Dennett. He has written many books, including Consciousness Explained, Darwin’s Dangerous Ideas and Freedom Evolves. Dannett started off with talking about his latest talks and groups. He also talks in details regarding, natural selection, free-will, life, and consciousness. I did agree ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Flame On, the video was about homosexuality and long list of famous people being homosexual such as Plato and Socrates. Those are the best philosophers, but not sure how they can live up with that. The term has become common in the 21st century, but in the previous centuries, people ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
On the Genealogy of Morals A Polemical Tract by Nietzsche. Nietzsche starts off by saying that we are very much ignorant in every way. He discussed morality of life, and how small things are bad. He mentioned two type of behaviors we are living with, either good or bad. He ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2007
The expert lecture by Sam Harris. Harris wrote a well known book The End of Faith. Harris started off apologizing on the lecture might offend people. Then he defined believe, what is believe. He defined it to be “believes are machinery and guidance to our behavior through time”. In his ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
“A Glorious Piece of Meat”, well said. The short video was very interesting. One of my favorite quotes from the video was “The soul is nothing more than complex network of neurons”(Crick). Which means that our human brain is extremely to understand how it works. Furthermore, we are clueless in ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
The reading subject was Neural Philosophy. The Astonishing Hypothesis written by Francis Crick in 1994. The Astonishing Hypothesis describes human as nothing more than bunch of nerve cells and molecules working. Crick mentions that we have created this illusion. Another very interesting reading was An Integral Theory of Consciousness by ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard University on Evolutionary Psychology. He has written couple of books such as How the mind works and The blank slate which are related to psychology and its traditions. One really interesting point he makes is that, the mind is very complex. So, complex ...
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007
The short film had very interesting topic like the reading and the expert lecture had which is evolution. The evolution by Darwin, I think is based on survival from generation to generation. We should know that we have been edited by our parents. The short film, The Fundamentalism is a ...
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