Ghost in the Machine: Is there a soul?

[Animavore]

Woooooo-wooooooo

[AshtonBlack]

Not a bad vid but,

If the emergent properties that he ascribes to "mind" from brain, that leaves the soul with? Nothing.

[The Curious Squid]

Isn't that how it should be?

Souls don't exist in Paco land.

[AshtonBlack]

Isn't that how it should be?

Souls don't exist in Paco land.

Nor in Blackville.

[ScholasticSpastic]

Spaztowne is full of soul. But not the spirit kind.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I prefer plaice.

[AshtonBlack]

I prefer plaice.

[The Curious Squid]

Woooooo-wooooooo

I've only just actually watched that video ani, it was really well done. I like having complicated subjects broken down and delivered in such an easily digestible manner. It's almost like you're brain willingly wants to absorb what he's saying more readily because he sounds so calm and sure of what he's saying.

[Animavore]

Woooooo-wooooooo

I've only just actually watched that video ani, it was really well done. I like having complicated subjects broken down and delivered in such an easily digestible manner. It's almost like you're brain willingly wants to absorb what he's saying more readily because he sounds so calm and sure of what he's saying.

I forgot to watch it after I posted it

This guy is brilliant in general so I had no doubt it would be good. Check his other videos. He's only on YouTube a few months and fast gaining prestige. Some say he's the next Tf00t.

[The Curious Squid]

Who is it?

[Animavore]

Who is it?

C0nc0rdance.
Subscribe my little pretties. Subscribe.

[AshtonBlack]

His work on the evolution of the eye is astounding.

[FBM]

Not a bad vid but,

If the emergent properties that he ascribes to "mind" from brain, that leaves the soul with? Nothing.

Emergent properties are simply phenomena, i.e., behavior of substances. They don't have independent existence. The mind doesn't have any existence independent of the matter from which it emerges. Strictly speaking, neither mind nor soul have ever been directly observed. 'Mind' is a convenient label we use to refer to an organizing principle behind the behavior of a person, but the source of that behavior, its organizing principle, is clearly the organization of the organic activity of brain substance. 'Soul' has no place in the equation at all, as it has neither been observed nor explains anything, nor is it the product of necessary inference, as are subatomic particles.

Good vid, ani.

[Mr P]

Gilbert Ryle coined the phrase ghost in the machine in his book Concept of Mind as a derogatory term to describe dualism. The book was written in 1949 yet it's only now that his ideas are gaining prominence, mainly thanks to the likes of Dan Dennett and advances in neuro science supporting many of his ideas.

As Dennett says in his introduction to the new edition "it's one of the most underrated works of philosophy of the 20th century".

[Animavore]

Gilbert Ryle coined the phrase ghost in the machine in his book Concept of Mind as a derogatory term to describe dualism. The book was written in 1949 yet it's only now that his ideas are gaining prominence, mainly thanks to the likes of Dan Dennett and advances in neuro science supporting many of his ideas.

As Dennett says in his introduction to the new edition "it's one of the most underrated works of philosophy of the 20th century".

I believe the phrase actually comes from ancient Greece, deus ex machina, it was literally a machine, a crane that would lower people dressed as gods on to a stage during a play for the purpose of narration.

Unless you mean that Gilbert Ryle was the first to use it in the sense of the idea of a soul that controls a meat puppet?