Dan Robinson on Consciousness

Daniel Robinson (Oxford University) gives a talk on consciousness in 2013 at St Olaf College as part of the Eunice Belgum Memorial Lectures.
00:00 Talk
1:01:03 Q&A
#Philosophy #Consciousness #Mind

[@adelvoid1530]

Prof. Robinson gave me the coordinates to understand and read Kant. For this I will always be grateful.

[@paxdriver]

My favourite prof since I discovered TTC in 2002. Thank you soooo so much for this upload. I'm really looking to part 2 of this on character.

[@luszczi]

Ah, very well written: stimulating, but not too taxing. Many lecturers using a prepared script fall into the trap of writing a dense essay that's impossible to follow. We've seen some examples on this channel. :)

[@josephcarcasole6039]

Thanks for this.

[@PadraigTomas]

The delightful Daniel Robinson, refers to Huxley at the 47:00 mark. Which Huxley does he mean?

[@themulldog1039]

Thomas Huxley, who was an epiphenomenalist regarding consciousness

[@PessimisticIdealism]

Dan Robinson is excellent.

[@blairhakamies4132]

Better than fabulous ❤

[@windokeluanda]

Fabolous!

[@Udaykymset]

Sounds like he's trying to pick a fight with Searle

[@BobBogaert]

8:26 - Herophilos was [...] the first to locate intellectual functions in the brain.
Confused cat: "Iz not Alcmaeon of Croton?"

[@alfredkokou2013]

Warning ⚠️ this is not for public audiences. An unprepared mind, which I happen to be a member of, will hear a series of sound devoid of meaning.

[@menzisaclown]

Funny comment

[@Doctor.T.46]

Excellent, I've never had my physicalist perspective on consciousness confirmed in such an eloquent and entertaining way. Thank you.

[@ivaniliev929]

He is refuting it. You realise that right?

[@Doctor.T.46]

@@ivaniliev929 Sorry, I was being sarcastic, I should have made that clear. I also get my physicalist views confirmed when I listen to David Chalmers trying to persuade me about zombies.

[@axe7064]

There is a disconnect. Not one African philosopher. Considering the Greeks learnt everything from AFRICAN Egyptians.

[@tiredidealist]

😂

[@axe7064]

Africans were the first thinkers!!!

[@doylesaylor]

Watching this video I feel pain of watching someone bent over reading text. Pain based upon the topic. The reader is tied to the words he speaks from the ‘page’ as conveying the meaning of consciousness. He certainly is used to lecturing and his subject matter. But not so much from the spectacle of his bent over posture. Which is also laughable. What I see is a video, not a book or printed text, or monitor with a text display. The video makes a claim about consciousness itself which he ignores. Not I mean vision, a claim about realism of the display. Of course being a very familiar experience a video seems real. But we also know from reality a video is not real. This trivial observation though implies consciousness is one of the comparison between video and direct experience. This consciousness may be such as an other animal not human, experiences. So we being users of language know the text, or the video via language. Hence consciousness may be in animals apart from how language makes consciousness known to humans. So this implies we ask of language be like consciousness. That is what we think of videos, that the video conveys consciousness visually where text does not. And this conceptual trivia eludes the bent over reader of texts.

[@constantinoprea4485]

I confused. What are you intending to say here? I am not against gibberish; however, I find that you are not quite clear with your comment. You say "The video makes a claim about consciousness". It is not the video, is the person, Dan Robinson. Please explain this " So we being users of language know the text, or the video via language", and " the video conveys consciousness visually where text does not".